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The 'Quiet Catastrophe' Of Men Choosing To Not Seek Work
Investors Business Daily ^ | 10/06/2016 | GEORGE F. WILL

Posted on 10/06/2016 4:00:53 AM PDT by expat_panama

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To: Little Ray

I’m not questioning your choice. I am only suggesting that it is illustrative IMO of how we’ve lost so many working-age men. (It sounds like you are beyond traditional working age, however.)


101 posted on 10/06/2016 7:16:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: alternatives?

>>their definition of “American principles” has won

It hasn't won as long as individuals still have the freedom to contradict the errors of the fallible and uninspired who would assume dominion over us.

This is what it looks like when their definition has really "won" historically:

[Chekist Чекист '1992' Russian film 'Eng-Subs' (full)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RQVSHfuPCQ

 



102 posted on 10/06/2016 7:17:30 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Petrosius

Check out George Gilder’s other works; “Naked Nomads: Unmarried Men in America” (1974). Made the `swinging single’ lifestyle out to be anything but; “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, & short” was more like it.

Also “The Professor Game” (1977). Political correctness & quotas infested academia even then. Coeds trading sex for `A’s, too.


103 posted on 10/06/2016 7:17:46 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: HLPhat

I appreciate the Yuri Bezminov quote, but we are way beyond the “demoralization” stage, and have progressed well into the “destabilization” stage, and we are about to enter the “crisis” stage,,, which will justify the final stage of “normalization”, where our system is replaced by something akin to Stalin’s USSR or Khmer Rouge in Cambodia or China’s “Great Leap Forward”,,,


104 posted on 10/06/2016 7:20:11 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We shoot back!


105 posted on 10/06/2016 7:21:02 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: FrankR

Well, true!

I am so glad I’m not living in a major metro area. It’s going to be a bloodbath when this Ponzi scheme finally collapses.


106 posted on 10/06/2016 7:25:31 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Wildbill22

Yep.


107 posted on 10/06/2016 7:26:04 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Bryanw92

I agree with most of your comments. My sons have figured out the same thing on their own.

I have told them that I wouldn’t get married unless their prospective wife was a devout Christian. My wife tells them the same thing.

However, my wife doesn’t see the workplace and legal discrimination against men. My sons and their friends certainly do.

They have to make their own decisions about how they want to live their lives. They are not living in the 40’s or 50’s.


108 posted on 10/06/2016 7:30:46 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: MSF BU

>>That’s past, for the most part anyway.

There is nothing new under the Sun.

The world’s first city developed around its temples, and only later did palaces play a role. Its view of the world was conditioned, as in all ancient societies, by totalitarian religious belief. So the picture that comes into focus is that of a theocratic command economy, hierarchically organized, centrally directed, and regulated according to an ideology propagated by a priesthood, playing the role that, 5,000 years later, Soviet Marxists would call ‘the engineers of human souls’. Such was temple rule.

Kriwaczek, Paul. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (p. 53). St. Martin's Press. Kindle Edition.


"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

109 posted on 10/06/2016 7:35:36 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Xenodamus

“I am just pointing out how silly of a point it is to say that men should not marry because women are evil and tie men down to a life of a wage slave to support the evil female objectives.”

Sorry, but the men who are being tied down to slave for the women don’t find it a silly point, and that’s really all that matters. You can either address their concerns, and the situation might improve, or you can ignore them, in which case the situation will continue to degenerate.

“If we followed God’s plan for marital bliss and family life there would be no problem.”

That’s a nice thought, but marriage is a legal fiction in this country nowadays, so this isn’t really a feasible solution, and nobody on either side of the political aisle is concerned about fixing the problems with marriage. That is why young men have decided to protest the situation by direct action, since they have no real recourse to address the issue any other way.


110 posted on 10/06/2016 7:37:51 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: HLPhat

“Tell us how dying in the process of conserving American principles isn’t relevant to the current discussion, smart ass.”

Dying for your country is much different than volunteering to become a slave so some woman can sit on her lazy ass. Sorry if you can’t comprehend the difference.


111 posted on 10/06/2016 7:38:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: HLPhat

It’s a state of mind, not so much a location.


112 posted on 10/06/2016 7:39:56 AM PDT by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: HLPhat

“Conservatism means trying to conserve what the process of demoralization was intended to destroy”

Then why don’t you start trying that instead of blaming men who are resisting the fate that LIBERAL society is trying to consign them to? These men are not your enemy, but you seem dead set on making them into one.


113 posted on 10/06/2016 7:45:36 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: antidisestablishment

“The growth in disability has not been driven by retirement or veterans.”

I never said that. The “42%” figure is not the number of people on disability.


114 posted on 10/06/2016 7:46:10 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: expat_panama

115 posted on 10/06/2016 7:49:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bryanw92

“I don’t think God really worries about some guy getting married.”

All these Christians trying to guilt men into marriage seem to forget that Paul advised marriage only as a last recourse if you couldn’t control your own sexual lusts. Chastity was the preferable choice according to the him.


116 posted on 10/06/2016 7:51:38 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

>>Dying for your country is much different

That's just your ignorance of altruism on display.

>>volunteering to become a slave so some woman can sit on her lazy ass.

Maybe that describes the female role models in your family but it doesn't describe the women in mine.

Essentially what you're describing, and rationalizing, is multi-generational strategic failure of basic social structure.

Whose fault is that?

117 posted on 10/06/2016 7:55:28 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: 9YearLurker

Not yet. 55. Got about 12 years to go.


118 posted on 10/06/2016 7:55:42 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Ray

So it sounds like you are the poster boy for this phenomenon!


119 posted on 10/06/2016 7:58:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Boogieman

Stop whining like a poodle.

Real men support their wives and families as directed by Jesus Christ.

YMMV.


120 posted on 10/06/2016 7:59:20 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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