Out of the Ashes by Anthony M. Esolen

Author:Anthony M. Esolen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621575696
Publisher: Brisance Books Group LLC
Published: 2016-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

The Necessity of Patriarchy

We train boys to be men. If you believe that the Church, the nation, and what is left of Western culture and civilization can be revived or rebuilt without the leadership of men, I suggest that you take an honest look at what happens when men retreat from the public square. You do not get rule by women. You get anarchy—social chaos that requires the vast machinery of state control to manage, control that enters into a host-parasite relationship with the chaos itself, much to the destruction of true liberty and the flourishing of communities.

Why is this so? All we have to do to see why is to rub the self-administered paste from our eyes. Men are bigger, stronger, more aggressive, and more tolerant of violence than women are. That is a plain fact. Foolish social scientists often look for esoteric explanations for violence. They miss the explanation that is nearest of all. Violence is fun. It makes things happen.

If you do not raise men to be fathers—not just progenitors of children, but fathers in the full sense implied by a phrase like “city fathers”—they will not therefore become compliant and gentle mothers. They will either drag out their days in ennui and desperation or go very bad, very fast. Nor will they lack for women, and plenty of them too, who will be attracted to the dangerous man, the rebel, the leader of the gang. The alternative to rule by fathers, which is what patriarchy means, is male domination in the form of a police state or in the persons of men outside the law.

Evidence is everywhere. We are told by our cultural “betters” that the 1950s were years of repression and false cheerfulness. Well, in that culture of repression people were free to leave their keys in the ignition of the car, to leave their doors unlocked at night, to let their children range all over town without supervision, to have shooting clubs in the public schools, to leave bicycles outside of a store without worrying that they would be pinched, to ride in the back of a pickup truck without getting stopped by the police, to tell children to get out of the house and stay out till suppertime, to have those kids walk a mile or two to school and back every day without worrying about kidnappers or perverts, to call on their neighbors (whose names they knew) when they needed some sugar or flour or when they wanted to play cards, to send their children to a parochial school without paying any tuition, to show up at a movie theater or a bowling alley at nine years old without arousing suspicion, to belong to men’s clubs and women’s clubs (whereof there were plenty to choose from) without being accused of hate or bigotry; and so forth. Oh, they were not saints, and their treatment of blacks was shameful, as they knew, and they did address that—the grownups, that is, and not their

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