Leo Linbeck, Sweet post, differentiating between “eunuchs by choice” in service to humanity and selfish D.I.N.K.’s, metrosexuals,etc.
It’s interesting that the latter are still self absorbed when musing on their barren futures. Who’s going to pay attention to me when I’m old?
Someone said “a man totally wrapped up in himself is a small package indeed.” The joy I find in my wife of 27 years and four children is the joy of shared life and posterity; it’s the antithesis of self absorption. We’re part of something grander; a family in church, community and nation. I daresay Western Civilization is dying on this battlefield. George Gilder’s “Men and Marriage” is a powerful treatment of this theme.