Always liked this broad, one of the few honest leftists left.
-Mescaline
Thanks for this, Mescaline. You know, I never thought Camille Paglia was attractive. However, if I had met her when I—and, more importantly, she—were younger, I would have seduced her and left her to her dykeish devices after rendering them obsolete on pure masculine principle.
Camile makes a great point about ancient Greek sculpture becoming less masculine over the years. An excellent example was the switch in cult veneration from Zeus and Herakles to Apollo and Dionysius. This also caused a hyper-masculine reaction, with pankration [the art of Herakles] becoming an athletic craze [similar to our MMA craze] and men such as Xenophon and Themostikles adopting war cult Sparta as a favored home, turning their back on Athens, that state being the best ancient analogy for America. The Romans, who conquered the fading Greeks, adopted Herakles from the Hellenes as their masculine archetype.
As Camile discusses, sophistication is a civilization's very own moral tar pit.
Here is to the hope that this civilization, too, shall fall—and soon.
-James
I happened across an article by Roissy the same time I read this. Look at the short quotation he takes from a book about lack of monogamy in society lowering the societies willingness to fight for the society. Hm...I just said something about that earlier.
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I think it's not so much that Men have gone soft as that Men aren't required to Man up. There's nothing to protect so they don't go into that kind of thinking to protect. If you have a wife and family you will always be in a much more vigilant state as our seer "The Anonymous Coward" says "K" selected state of mind.