tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post9058286319777908065..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: How Homosexual Marriage and Other Deviant and Dysfunctional Attitudes Rendered Us Less Than Human and Destroyed CivilizationGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85184619172353089582014-05-04T12:53:52.767-07:002014-05-04T12:53:52.767-07:00"Tucker notes that "the adoption of soci..."Tucker notes that "the adoption of social monogamy by early hominids created something unique in nature -- a society where males cooperate at common tasks with a minimum of sexual competition." <br /><br />In most other species it is a violent free-for-all to determine Who Gets the Chicks. Males spend the majority of their time competing with other males for access to the holiest of holies. (Recall what Chagnon discovered about those ignoble savages of the Amazon basin, constantly at war over the ladies.) <br /><br />What we're really looking for is a kind of gap in nature, or a "place" where prehistory verticalizes and becomes transnatural, i.e., jumps into civilization and history. In my opinion, it ultimately -- which is to say, ontologically -- takes place in the infant (I saw it happen with my own eyes!)"<br /><br />Man, this is full of choice propositions to chew on. First, having become a father 2 years ago myself I'm inclined to agree with you regarding the domesticating power of the infant; though I admit I wonder if that was case specific and owing to my, ahem, vintage...<br /><br />But I'm also intrigued by the proposition of monogamy as a cure for the societal tension of wild and wooly mating. One has to wonder what came first, the disappearance of estrus or monogamy? Still, it's almost impossible to argue with the notion that the groups that adopted this strategy were generally the most successful and therefore became a preferred societal scheme.<br /><br />That has to, at least, be a component in the challenges faced by children as single parent families have increasingly become the norm. A fact that many social science folks can't bring themselves to even consider as a possible contributing condition, as it opposes the, "it's all good", orthodoxy of the progressive left; that, as you point out, so well dovetails with the failed social philosophy of Marx and Engels...<br /><br />Very thought provoking, thanks again for the grey cell massage!Bob Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989585364568658157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87022540236196670022014-05-01T18:16:54.434-07:002014-05-01T18:16:54.434-07:00Speaking of women enslaved to manly lust, here'...Speaking of women enslaved to manly lust, here's an apropos <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ob2iKO7IHk" rel="nofollow">musical interlude</a>.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34637015035065893382014-05-01T16:21:05.562-07:002014-05-01T16:21:05.562-07:00Ben @ 4:16,
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Funny that every commenter so far...Ben @ 4:16,<br /><br />:D<br /><br />Funny that every commenter so far has focused on that one line. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90958311413940245802014-05-01T16:20:14.191-07:002014-05-01T16:20:14.191-07:00Also interestingly, among progs this is how the ma...Also interestingly, among progs this is how the males are supposed to act (slaves of the wymyn's lust and breeding instruments, if they are lucky). <br /><br />That's why prog males are so bitchy I reckon.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47752966043388552132014-05-01T16:16:04.213-07:002014-05-01T16:16:04.213-07:00Interestingly, this downward-cutting edge view goe...Interestingly, this downward-cutting edge view goes back to the cultural Marxism of Marx and Engels, who -- once again turning reality on its head -- suggested that marriage and monogamy are the origins of that curse word property, in that woman becomes the first possession of man: when man "took command in the home," "the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children" (in Tucker).<br /><br />Yeah, it's just like that around here."<br /><br />Aye. You just gotta let 'em know who's boss...<br /><br />Incoming! USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38862572767839487102014-05-01T11:58:20.747-07:002014-05-01T11:58:20.747-07:00when man "took command in the home," &qu...<i>when man "took command in the home," "the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children" (in Tucker).</i><br /><br />Ironically, the one big cultural group that <i>actually</i> treats women that way as a norm gets a free pass to do so the proglodyte left.<br /><br />The one good thing feminism achieved was to clarify that homemaking is a choice - i.e., something women do <i>of their own free will</i>. In a sane world, that would have been more than enough.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41300390906290324432014-05-01T10:43:57.339-07:002014-05-01T10:43:57.339-07:00Krauthammer is a smart guy, but I don't trust ...Krauthammer is a smart guy, but I don't trust him. Being too much into politics is like having pigeons at the buffet table. It's not so much what they eat as what they crap in and spoil.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51755332708064770522014-05-01T10:23:49.459-07:002014-05-01T10:23:49.459-07:00Yeah, it's just like that around here. When we...<i>Yeah, it's just like that around here. When we talk about civilization, what are we really talking about? For starters, we are talking about the domestication of man.</i><br /><br />I'm not sure about domestication, but I am house-broken.<br /><br /><a href="http://accordingtohoyt.com/2014/04/30/what-a-mess-of-pottage/" rel="nofollow">Sarah Hoyt had a bit on this yesterday.</a> Apparently Portuguese women could not vote. Sarah asked her mother about it: <i> As for voting she said any married woman who can’t make her husband vote the way she would have, doesn’t deserve a vote.</i>mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43414625745969331232014-05-01T10:15:25.273-07:002014-05-01T10:15:25.273-07:00"nterestingly, this downward-cutting edge vie..."nterestingly, this downward-cutting edge view goes back to the cultural Marxism of Marx and Engels, who -- once again turning reality on its head -- suggested that marriage and monogamy are the origins of that curse word property, in that woman becomes the first possession of man: when man "took command in the home," "the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children" (in Tucker)"<br /><br />Which, I've got to say, Marx got from the reviled one, Rousseau.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com