{"id":3743,"date":"2017-08-03T07:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2017-08-03T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:01:09","slug":"two-cheers-for-the-patriarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/two-cheers-for-the-patriarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cheers for the Patriarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, maybe three cheers. I came across this article<\/a> published in Foreign Policy<\/em> about ten years ago. Surprisingly for this rag, the article promotes the patriarchy:<\/p>\n

Throughout the broad sweep of human history, there are many examples of people, or classes of people, who chose to avoid the costs of parenthood. Indeed, falling fertility is a recurring tendency of human civilization. Why then did humans not become extinct long ago? The short answer is patriarchy.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Through a process of cultural evolution, societies that adopted this particular social system — which involves far more than simple male domination — maximized their population and therefore their power, whereas those that didn’t were either overrun or absorbed. This cycle in human history may be obnoxious to the enlightened, but it is set to make a comeback.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an interesting read, particularly in light of the post-modern, feminist view of the way society should be organized.<\/p>\n

A couple more quotes from the article:<\/p>\n

Among states that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, fertility rates are 12 percent higher than in states that voted for Sen. John Kerry. It may also help to explain the increasing popular resistance among rank-and-file Europeans to such crown jewels of secular liberalism as the European Union. It turns out that Europeans who are most likely to identify themselves as “world citizens” are also those least likely to have children.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

it is a transformation that occurs as secular and libertarian elements in society fail to reproduce, and as people adhering to more traditional, patriarchal values inherit society by default.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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OK, maybe three cheers. I came across this article<\/a> published in Foreign Policy<\/em> about ten years ago. Surprisingly for this rag, the article promotes the patriarchy:<\/p>\n

Throughout the broad sweep of human history, there are many examples of people, or classes of people, who chose to avoid the costs of parenthood. Indeed, falling fertility is a recurring tendency of human civilization. Why then did humans not become extinct long ago? The short answer is patriarchy.<\/p>\n

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Through a process of cultural evolution, societies that adopted this particular social system — which involves far more than simple male domination — maximized their population and therefore their power, whereas those that didn’t were either overrun or absorbed. This cycle in human history may be obnoxious to the enlightened, but … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}