Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

(repost in long form)
Q: “IS THERE A SOLUTION TO FEMINISM’S CAUSE OF CIVILIZATIONAL COLLAPSE?”

RE: Sex and Culture by J. D. Unwin (1934)
https://t.co/hMkxtNpamf
(Before the postwar boom in pseudoscience.)
Please note that I’m not advocating for “barefoot and pregnant”, but the current decline caused by entry of women into franchise and workforce combined with the pill and promiscuity is more serious threat to civilization than climate change, possible plagues, war, and for certain the rise of AI. So, I’ve proposed a number of possible solutions, but the clock is ticking and we only have a few years to solve this problem.

CONTENTS:
by Knowland Knows @KnowlandKnows
Unwin studied 80 societies and found that ‘any human society is free to choose’:

– It can ‘display great energy’.
– Or it can ‘enjoy sexual freedom.’
– But ‘it cannot do both for more than one generation.’

The sexual behavior of women before marriage is the decisive factor in cultural success.

WHY:
– Men are mainly motivated by sex.
– If they can get it without marriage, they contribute less to society.
– Pre-nuptial chastity coupled with absolute monogamy energizes cultures most.
– Cultures that sustained this for three generations exceeded all other cultures in every area.

Only the world’s greatest empires managed it:
– The Athenians
– The Romans
– The British

OTHERWISE
– Embracing total sexual freedom produces an “inert” culture.
– People focus only on their own wants and needs.
– Such cultures are conquered by others with greater social energy.

– Unwin’s study shows sexual freedom ‘cannot have its full cultural effect for a hundred years’.
– A generation can live off the energy generated by the previous monogamous one.
– But it won’t pass energy on to the third generation.
– The Sexual Revolution of 1960 gives us until 2060.

Before Rome fell,
– women were emancipated
– marriage fell out of fashion
– Roman gravitas disappeared
– sexual opportunity was extended
– marital and parental authorities were qualified

And then absolutely monogamous Teutons conquered Rome.

EMERGENT IRRATIONALITY
If a rationalistic society loosens its sexual restrictions, it regresses to superstition and irrationality.

As Unwin predicted, we are seeing
– irrationality
– nature worship
– women identifying as “witches” (meaning, various forms of female woo woo, magical thinking, anti-sociality, criticizing, undermining, canceling.)

LIMITS TO “PROGRESSION”
Unwin explodes the ‘quaint and comfortable doctrine’ that the cultural process is a progressive development’.
– Sexual constraints mean flourishing; sexual freedom means collapse.
– Without this truth, ‘we shall understand neither our own culture nor that of any other society.’

‘Sometimes a man has been heard to declare that he wishes both to enjoy the advantages of high culture and to abolish compulsory continence…The reformer may be likened to the foolish boy who desires both to keep his cake and to consume it.’ – J. D. Unwin, ‘Sex and Culture’

I have written a full breakdown of this crucial book here:
https://t.co/30zcl2Zlwl

Why Monogamy Matters
The book that predicts cultural collapse in 2060

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Curt Doolittle @curtdoolittle
Dec 4, 2022
Replying to
@KnowlandKnows
Unwin isn’t ‘wrong’ he’s just ‘early’. It took Hayek (behavioral capital) and Becker (economics of human behavior) and many others in between, to explain the problem of knowledge, incentives, and producing humans that willingly (and irrationally) produce COMMONS using incentives.