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
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