“You might find this one interesting.”
-Ron West
I very much enjoyed Mister Kunstler’s [or whoever wrote this for his site, as I found no attribution] take on our society’s first pitched battle in what shall be a long war by the elites to overtly crush the male identity they have subverted for these past hundred years or so. I whole-heartedly agree that Trump is a kind of parody of masculinity, a very shrill, feminized, materialistic braggart.
All that said, clown though he may appear, D. J. Trump has balls. In the end, it was his manliness, marginal though it may be, that carried the day, that diverted the feminist stake from our collective masculine heart. Crude though the means and setting may be, men will be permitted to be men for another four years, ten times the timeframe men like Trump are accustomed to envision.
In our quarterly, corporate world, four years is an eternity. It is a certainty that Trump has won the ephemeral scepter of a nation bereft of virtue. I too, am doubtful he will herald a return of the virtues mankind spent 10,000 years developing and discarded in a generation or two, Western Man having cast off his every value that fails to convert to cash at a maximum exchange rate. The unveiling of Trump’s vision of our shallow notion of forever shall be interesting at least.
"Western man having cast off his every value that fails to convert to cash at a maximum exchange rate" - so true , good one.
"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood, the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - President Theodore Roosevelt
Jeremy, I have long had a problem with Teddy as president and his embracing of global expansion. However, he was a real man, with real feelings, not an empty orator or a placeholder like Obama, Clinton and the Shrub Kings, and he paid for his globalist tendencies with the death of a son, which is no small price to pay.
As far as his civic theory he is one of our best domestic legacies.