Thought-provoking and worth reading

Kim du Toit's wife has published a very thought-provoking essay on her blog. It's titled "Rage Of Ages".

A few snippets to whet your appetite:

Americans are an immigrant culture. We’re a healthy stock of mutts. What we have in common, which is what the immigrant culture thing means, is that our ancestors woke up one day (in whatever place they were from) and said, I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.

So they left.

A few generations of all those folks breeding with one another makes for a ferocity gene, that is fairly well established as dominant. It’s a dominant dominance.

That’s not true in other places. If you’re limited in your breeding choices to geography, although nature is still going to cause most women to be attracted to strong men, eventually you run out of them (especially if those places were ravaged by war and the healthy and strong males were killed off in large numbers).

If, however, you have a constant influx of mad as hell it will take a lot longer before the dominant dominance is bred out.

. . .

Boys used to be able to fend for themselves. Now we don’t allow them to cross the street by themselves and we coddle them to the point that even playing with toy guns and swords is not allowed.

But the ferocity is there and young men, at about the time they begin to develop their own turf, when they’re starting out in the world and are seeking to be a leader of a pride (a pride he can lovingly patrol and protect) will get angry if you try to deny it to them.

Read the whole article for her take on what this means for the USA as a nation. I think she makes an excellent and very important point.

We're slowly but surely emasculating males in our society. I can't think when last I saw young boys climbing trees in an average American suburb, to name just one example. Our trees are now carefully selected nursery specimens that we plant, fertilize, trim, and tend with loving care. Can't have them damaged by careless youngsters, you know - and Heaven forbid that one of our children fall out of one and break his arm or leg! We might be investigated by Child Protective Services!

Go read . . . and ponder. Food for thought.

Peter