A couple days ago Tim Pool posted a video “Millennial
Men are Unmarried Losers Because Their Parents Won’t Cut Them Off”.
Well, this is a loaded thing. The basic problem has always been that girls
are more verbal than boys, mature faster as children, and will naturally do
better in school unless compared to “exceptional” boys (especially computer
nerds today). So, as Tim points out, after the gender equality movement, going
all the way back to the late 1950s with Betty Friedan, there are more women
today in “superordinate” positions at work, as Markovits points out in his book
on meritocracy. You can read Vox’s latest pieces on meritocracy, such as Roge Karma’s,
and some interviews with the author, here.
There is also the problem with “men and work”, which
Cato had a book forum (“Men Without Work” by Nicholas Eberstadt) about just
before Trump’s inauguration in 2017. And there seems to be a breakpoint among
young men with cognition.
Young men who indeed do well in school and who can
motivate themselves really stand out from the rest of the pack. There is a tremendous cognition gap among men
in our country on the ability to think in abstraction, reason, compare, and
evaluate media input (as in social media) critically. David Pakman has also mentioned this problem
many times, as does (ironically) Jordan Peterson. With women the gaps are narrower and there is
more continuity.
So the outstanding counterexample for Pool’s video is
John Fish, who recently decided to take a gap year after two years at Harvard and
work (in high tech) in Montreal and pay his own way in life and live by himself
in his own apartment for a year, and become a full adult at age 20. He talks about this. Once you leave the nest, it changes you, for
the better.
When I was growing up, there was a tacit understanding
that men needed to be able to support women so that women could bear children
and stay at home with them earlier in adulthood. This is still a major element in culture overseas,
especially in countries otherwise challenged economically (including
Russia). The women’s movement, and later
the gay movement and now the gender “equity” movement if you can call it that
(wokeness), have all created their own internal contradictions, which seem to
be beyond intellectual resolution.
Welcome to tribalism.
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