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Posted by Sick Rose on 2024-June-25 13:34:29, Tuesday
In reply to Harrington and 'normophobia' posted by Pharmakon on 2024-June-25 02:05:47, Tuesday

You're probably right that neither "early marriage (nor) pederasty is capable of being revived" at least as long as the wage labor economy survives -- and I don't see anything on the horizon to replace it short of general societal collapse (which I think is quite possible -- you yourself pointed to an interesting warning in Compact on just how close we are to nuclear war.)

But short of collapse, yeah -- you're right.

What's interesting, though, is that the nuclear family and attendant institutions survive among the elites, while distintegrating among the lower orders -- i.e, those who live on gigs, paycheck-to-paycheck, or stingy government handouts. Harrington goes into this as do many other thoughtful writers, e.g., Rob Henderson whose book Troubled is a tour de force -- Henderson, who usefully coined the term "luxury beliefs," explicitly acknowledges how important male role models are in the lives of boys, particularly boys like him who grew up without fathers. (God, he must have been hot as hell when he was 12 years old -- even today, I'm not sure I'd kick him out of my bed.)

Is there opportunity for, um, revival here? Obviously (at least for pederasty if not for early marriage). But how to get those agitated about social/family breakdown among hoi polloi (and it's not just conservatives) to see it? I really have no idea other than what I suggested in my response to TPKA Fragment below.

(Like you, I am dismayed at the fading of Paglia's early promise and trust that Harrington doesn't follow in her footsteps -- assuming, that is, that Paglia has really given up on serious writing. I entertain hopes that Paglia's recent reticence means she is finally doing what she had promised -- writing the successor volume to Sexual Personnae by applying the brilliant insights therein to the last century.)

(I tried following your link to the Lewis essay but couldn't make it work.)

SR


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