“The Tuareg? They are a cultural backwater. Whiskey is talking about those demographic and geographical groups that matter.”
Correct. To understand what he’s talking about, you only need to look at Britain. There, the emasculated native population has embraced many of the social structures that are hallmarks of “matriarchal” government – bureaucratic micromanagement, restrictions on free speech to protect “oppressed” minority groups (including known terror supporters), abundant welfare benefits, largesse distributed to single mothers, and so on. Menawhile, elements of the patriarchy are either stamped out or infected with the same creeping Tranzi-Progressive virus we’ve seen time and time again. The head of the Anglican Church, a “patriarchal” institution in the past, now muses that Shari’a law might be a good thing for his country. The Royal Navy is shackled with “enlightened” operational constraints so severe that it blunders into a humiliating hostage situation.
Lest anyone accuse me of anti-British prejudice, IMO most of the United States is a mere decade or two behind the UK. The majority of American elites seem convinced that a shrinking body of productive citizens will work harder and harder to subsidize more beneficiaries of the matriarchal nanny state – illegals, single mothers, tort lawyers, lifetime bureaucrats. Interestingly, the coming demographic crunches in Europe and North America will likely benefit Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures that, in my opinion, are decidedly un-matriarchal.
And what of the traditional Western Nuclear Family? It’s been placed under siege by the same matriarchal bureaucratic aparatus. An expansive bureaucratic state can tolerate no challenges to its authority – stable Nuclear families must be undermined at every turn.
Compare the tax burden on married middle-class couples with that on single mothers. Witness the efforts in California and other states to restrict home schooling & corporal punishment. The whole pedophilia/child abuse moral panic discussed on the front page of PJM is also part of the same trend. On another blog I recall one lady describing how a disgruntled neighbor claimed she had broken her daughter’s arm. This touched off a nightmarish, months-long witch hunt instigated by CPS agents and other bureaucratic busy-bodies. For every person who undergoes a similar experience there are thousands of others whose behavior is subtly reshaped by governments hostile to married family life. In an age when the matriarchal nanny-state has perverted nearly every incentive to raise children in a stable environment, small wonder people in their 20′s and early 30′s end up taking the extended adolescence route.
