Posted on 09/17/2025 3:48:49 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
In the last several decades, Western society has launched what could be called a Great Experiment: a full-scale reengineering of the human relationship structure that has served civilization for thousands of years. The traditional roles of men and women have been dismantled, the institution of marriage devalued, and the idea of long-term partnership often treated as optional, or even regressive.
This experiment was built on the promise of personal freedom: that women could have it all—career, independence, and family—on their own terms, and that men could be liberated from the duties of provision and protection without consequence. But as the dust begins to settle, a more honest reality is emerging.
This is not the first time a society has tried to defy human nature. And, like every attempt before, it will fail—not because someone protests or legislates it away, but because nature always reclaims what is hers.
Today's man has, in many ways, been set free. Free from social pressure to marry, to support a family, or to act as protector and provider. Dating apps, hookup culture, and economic independence have removed many of the traditional incentives for commitment.
And so many men have chosen to live as they please: solo, childless, untethered. Like the Lost Boys in Pinocchio, they have gone to Pleasure Island—where every desire is indulged and nothing is asked of them.
But in time, these men discover what the Lost Boys did: a life of endless freedom turns men into donkeys—beasts of burden with no legacy, no love, and no one to mourn their passing. What began as liberation ends in quiet, lonely futility. Because freedom without purpose doesn’t lead to joy—it leads to erosion of the soul.
Women were promised even more. That they could have career success, full autonomy, sexual freedom, and a family—all at once, and on their own timeline. Marriage was optional. Motherhood could wait. Independence was everything.
But on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, an unexpected voice has emerged: that of the regretful woman. She’s not angry. She’s not bitter. She’s simply waking up to a reality that biological clocks, emotional needs, and the desire for companionship are not social constructs—they are human truths.
The message of empowerment failed to mention that every choice comes with a cost. That time lost cannot be regained. That “having it all” was always a myth. And that freedom, if it’s not anchored in purpose, becomes its own prison.
The structure we tore down—patriarchy—was not a perfect system. But it was not, as often portrayed, a male-created cage. It was a civilizational compromise, a contract between men and women based on the realities of biology, survival, and human psychology.
It:
Yes, it imposed limits. But those limits were designed to protect, not oppress. And as we abandoned them, we also abandoned the security, stability, and meaning they offered.
We’ve seen this before. In the 1800s, the Shakers—a religious sect—believed sex and procreation were base instincts. They chose celibacy and spiritual purity instead. Their community, free from the “burden” of family ties, died out within a generation.
Not because of persecution.
But because they violated nature.
Today’s society, in rejecting marriage, lifelong commitment, and gender-based cooperation, may not be headed toward literal extinction—but it is facing emotional, relational, and demographic collapse.
So how does this end?
Not with a revolution. Not with a movement. But with reality.
The experiment ends when people—men and women—begin to realize that freedom alone does not bring happiness. That chasing pleasure leads to emptiness. That going it alone is not strength, but exhaustion.
It ends when:
And then, without fanfare, the pendulum begins to swing back. Not to the rigid rules of the past, but to a new balance, grounded in old truths:
The Great Experiment will end, not with shouts of victory, but with the quiet footsteps of millions returning home—back to love, to family, to responsibility, and to each other.
Because in the end, mother nature always has the final word. And she doesn't care about ideology. She only cares about what survives.
And what survives is not the strongest or the smartest—but the ones who remember how to build a life together.
Eventually the two great modern Towers of Babel — government schools and mega-corporations — will also have to go.
Eventually the two great modern Towers of Babel — government schools and mega-corporations — will also have to go.
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Yes.
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Part of that lie is the idea of bring up girls to be “strong independent women” or as a man one looks for a “strong independent woman”. A family, a team can not have independence and be successful. As God ordained it the husband is the leader and then there must be a follower. And there is nothing wrong being a follower. The husband is,should be, a follower of Christ. Without this marriage just does not work. It may persist but not successfully.
19th Amendment Response: “Why do you hate women?”
“Why do you hate women?”
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Rhetorical Question?
Good post.
Some in the younger generation are beginning to get it.
It is young women who are going to have to lead the charge—and right now most of them are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
We are probably a couple of generations away from turning it around.
What is needed is the death of all the key institutions that created the problem.
The schools and universities are number one on that list.
They have become dangerous dinosaurs at this point.
Education needs a total reboot—radical change—even more radical than we can imagine.
The term, “The Great Experiment” has already been taken. It’s been in the vernacular since George Washington used it in the First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789.
(”The Great Experiment” is most commonly used to refer to the United States of America’s system of government, particularly its founding as a constitutional republic based on Enlightenment ideals of liberty, equality, and self-governance.)
They killed Charlie for saying this message. Labeled it as “Hate”.
I liked its theories but it got it so wrong when it stated the force behind the coming reorganization was “mother nature” instead of God.
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