Sadly I do not think we will ever be able to overcome the moral Polarisation. The indicators are that it is extremely doubtful that what is called Western Civilisation will survive the next 50-100 years.
The only hope is for an extremely large group of people to have an epiphany and be able to stand up to the Spin Sisters.
Phillip, I fear you may be right. I, too, am not confident that we will find a way to triumph over this pathology before it overcomes us and we lose the ability to function as a society.
I share your pessimism about the future of Western civilisation. I see it in tragic terms....Icarus burning his wings etc. Having said that, I recently posted an essay on this theme (of feminism vs reality) on my own 'stack ...and with - for me - an uncharacteristically positive slant. You might find it interesting. It starts:
"I think I may have spotted a positive trend. Now that’s not a sentence you would expect to read in Slouching Towards Bethlehem is it! Positive trend? Yes....recently (in a certain kind of feminist journalism) I keep coming across warm-hearted acknowledgements that Masculinity and Femininity are complementary polarities in any sane conception of The Good Life. An acknowledgement that the relationship between a man and a woman has the potential to be the finest fruit that life has to offer. And that when things go wrong, they are often better understood as resulting from a kind of Faustian tango between the sexes than as a simple case of one sex always doing wrong by the other........" https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/shall-we-dance
Sadly I do not think we will ever be able to overcome the moral Polarisation. The indicators are that it is extremely doubtful that what is called Western Civilisation will survive the next 50-100 years.
The only hope is for an extremely large group of people to have an epiphany and be able to stand up to the Spin Sisters.
Phillip, I fear you may be right. I, too, am not confident that we will find a way to triumph over this pathology before it overcomes us and we lose the ability to function as a society.
I share your pessimism about the future of Western civilisation. I see it in tragic terms....Icarus burning his wings etc. Having said that, I recently posted an essay on this theme (of feminism vs reality) on my own 'stack ...and with - for me - an uncharacteristically positive slant. You might find it interesting. It starts:
"I think I may have spotted a positive trend. Now that’s not a sentence you would expect to read in Slouching Towards Bethlehem is it! Positive trend? Yes....recently (in a certain kind of feminist journalism) I keep coming across warm-hearted acknowledgements that Masculinity and Femininity are complementary polarities in any sane conception of The Good Life. An acknowledgement that the relationship between a man and a woman has the potential to be the finest fruit that life has to offer. And that when things go wrong, they are often better understood as resulting from a kind of Faustian tango between the sexes than as a simple case of one sex always doing wrong by the other........" https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/shall-we-dance