Great quote I am stealing from Vault-Co:
Here’s the paragraph from Sir Glubb in The Fate of Empires :
“An increase in the influence of women in public life has often been associated with national decline. The later Romans complained that, although Rome ruled the world, women ruled Rome. In the tenth century, a similar tendency was observable in the Arab Empire, the women demanding admission to the professions hitherto monopolised by men. ‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian, Ibn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk, tax-collector or preacher to do with women? These occupations have always been limited to men alone.’ Many women practised law, while others obtained posts as university professors. There was an agitation for the appointment of female judges, which, however, does not appear to have succeeded. Soon after this period, government and public order collapsed, and foreign invaders overran the country. The resulting increase in confusion and violence made it unsafe for women to move unescorted in the streets, with the result that this feminist movement collapsed.
Why would a wealthy declining hedonistic civilization always see women rise and demand leadership positions, and view childbearing and baking cookies for nurturing as somehow beneath them? Why would a civilization in ascendance always see men demand leadership positions, and women content to raise children and nurture them as well as they can?
r/K Selection Theory not only explains this reversal in sex-specific behaviors, it predicts them.
It is interesting to see that in history it has played out pretty much as we all know it will here, once the K-shift happens.
Feminism not only collapses when it meets reality – it brings the very reality that collapses it.
[…] Feminism, Seen In History […]
OT: a video of pretty detailed analysis of how NBC covered up Hlllary crossing her eyes on her plane. Also, a claim that she had a mini-seizure there I hadn’t seen:
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/evidence-that-hillary-clinton-has-a-serious-neurological-disease-and-the-media-is-covering-it-up/amp/
Maybe there’s something different to leadership roles in the different phases.
Krauser always talks about image vs compliance. Some people prefer to cultivate the former, whereas other prefer to test themselves head-on against systems that resist. You could say image is pull whereas compliance is push.
I would think leadership roles in r are very much about image. Only the toughest compliance-based roles remain (so, Navy SEALs commanders, MMA fighters, things like that).
In K there is probably more of a wide range of compliance-based roles. Even a non super alpha can get into and enjoy a position of power, because there is more compliance work to be done (taming Nature, building companies, raising sons, etc).
Cue also Czichzentmihail, who says we need an optimal mix of resistance and competence to get into “flow”, which is the most pleasurable and useful state. In r, the resistance/competence envelope is so skewed, that someone has to become a Navy SEAL or biker to be K – the remaining roles are all image-based.
Its the apple story. Over and over again. In paradise. The snake tells the woman she can be all powerful like God. She accepts and becomes corrupt. She attempts to corrupt the man,
If he accepts her bulllshit he will suffer horrifically, the r-selected environment will collapse and he will have dig roots out of the ground with his fingers,
God was warning us of the root problem. What He wants is to create the generation of men that can live in r but remain K.
All of civilization, every lesson we have learned is to create that generation of men.
The “Apple Story”. I like that.
Also a central finding in the book ‘Sex and Culture’ by Unwin (1934). Many, many similar examples in the book throughout human history.