(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.)
The Philosophy of Manliness
Let us start with a reference to one of the few righteous feminists, Camille Paglia. In her book Sexual Personae [11], she distinguishes between the Apollonian male principle of order and civilization, and the Dionysian female principle of nature = chaos. As she says, “[c]ulture and civilization are created by men in an attempt to control that force.” We see this clearly in the feminist attack upon male “logic,” and the savage postmodernist assault upon scientific rationality. Yet, as she observes, “if civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.” Reflecting upon the technological wonders that surround her, primarily created by men, she writes: “… One of feminism’s irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for “patriarchal society,” to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman. It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book.”
We may take rationality and technological mastery to be one of the defining qualities of manliness, as most of the technologies that have ever existed were created by men, and still are, despite affirmative action overload. Mastery is the capacity to develop skill and techniques to enable control over the physical and social environment, and it is a preoccupation of manly males to engage in mastery of themselves and their environment.Continue reading“Christian Manliness and the Collapse – Part 2, by Dr. Joseph”
