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It's very funny to get brigaded by scores of online feminists today for my post about how toddlers should not interrupt their fathers. Like folks, I read de Beauvoir, Foucault, Judith Butler, Shulamith Firestone, bell hooks, Silvia Federici. I'm familiar with the arguments. I was at one time zealously convinced of many of them. And I was an anarchist who sought the "abolition of systems of social hierarchy" such as the state, private property, white supremacy, colonialism, and of course, the 'hetero-patriarchy'. For nearly a decade I lived deep in the anarchist scene and read the canon, from Marx to Bookchin to Stirner to Derrick Jensen and beyond. Hell I even shared my pronouns at more than one Earth First meeting... I was vegan, too. What undid me from all of this was simply living for 9 years amongst anarchists, feminists, homosexuals, communists, and variously criminal, homeless, or drug-addled dropouts. Plainly observing the results of their obscene philosophies was painful; it became utterly clear to me that their "egalitarian" and "anti-hierarchical" ideas always resulted in filth, despondency, and the inability to accomplish ANYTHING -- even the most mundane tasks. Many could not even manage to keep their own lives intact, and many of them are now dead. When you allow 'resenttiment' to spread across your heart like a poison, you become infected with a juvenile obsession with "fairness" that can only be gratified by the total reduction of all life into a formless mass of perfectly equal cells -- a state one finds only in the heat death of the universe. You smear God's good creation, which thrives on intertwined hierarchies of complementarity and mutually-beneficial inequalities -- and you blaspheme against the God who created them; a God not of resentment and bitterness but of perfect self-sacrifice, humility, and a willingness to die and suffer for even the lowest of the low. Christ Jesus cures the devastating sicknesses of sin and wrath and envy and resentment not with revolution but with self-emptying love... He urges us not to destroy hierarchies for our own perverse, flawed (and ultimately fatally incorrect) sense of justice but to recognize that where hierarchy yields bad results, or tyranny and oppression, it is only because of the fall of man -- the seed of which is in the oppressed as much as it is in the oppressor. We are only liberated from that fall in Christ and thought Christ; there is not another way. Therefore, there is no reason to promote the idea that women should act as fathers nor that men should act as mothers; there is no need to constantly inject this obsessive focus on "equality" into every domain of household life. To do so is to invite catastrophe, for the ideal family was already shown to us by God in the form of Jesus, Mary and Joseph -- to imitate them is of the utmost importance, and to do that, we are wisest to abandon the perverted exhortations of Godless communists, feminists, and other enemies of the hierarchies which God has made for our edification.

The sheer speed at which this particular change has come about and intensified is truly incredible. I mean I'm only 32 and even in my lifetime, absolutely basic opinions that 95% of Americans espoused are now utterly Haram even amongst self-styled "conservatives." In 2002 -- just 25 years ago -- gay "marriage" was unthinkable to all but the lunatic fringe of the furthest left liberals. "Trans" literally didn't exist except as an exotic (and gross) joke. Most families, at least in rural areas like the one I grew up in, were still basically traditional -- wife at home mothering the kids, fathers were heads of household in the true sense, kids were running and playing outside. The only "working mothers" I knew were very poor, usually single mothers. It was still considered desirable and high-status for a woman to not have to work. Women would openly show gratitude for not having to work jobs, and would say things like "what woman would want a job? Seeing what my husband deals with at his job, I'm not envious of THAT..." Hell, around that time kids were still coming to school after deer hunting and left their rifles in their locked trucks. No problem. No metal detectors or "safety officers" at High Schools. It was essentially impossible to buy marijuana in my town, too. Wildest it got was drinking a 12-rack of Molson at a bonfire or maybe a fistfight with a kid from another town, no kidding. Fast-forward just 25 years and you'll get crucified online or at family functions for even suggesting that there are objective differences between men and women, or that kids need their mothers at home instead of being raised by daycare staff, or for even saying the word "queer." Having a beer or trapping beaver or "having too many kids" is looked upon with disgust by many, but publicly celebrating sodomy isn't. Even many "conservatives" gasp if you suggest that things like marijuana, pride parades, vasectomies, or divorces are bad -- and many of them are open atheists. The worst part of it is that you're not only not supposed to notice these changes, you're intensely socially pressured to go along with all of it. Are we better off for this incredibly swift series of changes? It doesn't appear that we are. Birthrates continue to crater, depression rates are sky-high, people are lonelier than ever. We've changed too much too fast, and for it, we've lost ourselves, everybody is in this kind of mass psychosis -- and those who see this for what it is are scorned even in the company of "conservatives." It's insanity. This era really feels like America's mid-life crisis.