Politics and Society: Unpopular Theory

The video linked below has addressed a nagging, itching question that has been in the back of my mind for some time. I won't say that I'm convinced, but some interesting points have been made in it that I believe are worthy of discussion. Watch the clip, then read on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFyIzoBwXVk

There has always been, for me, great  parallels between the American and Roman Empires. Similar social movements arose in Rome in the first few centuries AD. Some of which can be observed by reading The Apostle Paul's letters to various churches, including the one in Rome. Instead of leading to a demise though, perhaps a reaction to this and the perceived degradation of moral fabric was to swing in opposition. Constantine united Rome under Christianity which is not only as a unifying ideology but one that also supported masculine rule and feminine subversion. In the years to follow the Roman Empire (Holy Roman Empire) would become increasingly conservative socially, even still it would diminish.

There is but one ideology that is available that fits those same requirements. Islam. It is both unifying and patriarchal in nature.

I'm not sure I agree with all of the assertions in this video, I instinctively recoil from this main theme as I believe in gender equality. But that is how I was raised, and we can reason gender equality. But now even that is being challenged by the assertions that gender is subjective, and if I think about it honestly; if history had been different and women were never given the right to vote would we be suffering the current affliction whose symptoms are: the degradation of the moral principles that founded this society, the rejection of biological truth for ideological niceties, and the subjugation of the group of current individuals within that society that belong to the same group that brought it to greatness?

The west is crumbling. Has feminism played a key role in its demise?

Feminists today claim that we in the west live in a rape culture, is it so hard to understand that sexual violence (although I disagree that it is pervasive in every non-feminist apologetic male) is the product of the over-sexualization present in entertainment and marketing? It was little more than a century ago when being able to see a woman's ankles was considered risque. This was allegedly because women were oppressed. But we forget that men too covered pretty much everything up, it was simply a more modest time. Sure men lost their shirts in work crews and such, where there were no women present. In public people were covered. Society changed though, and these changes parallel the growth of feminism. Maybe feminism was not the cause, and the growth of feminism merely another symptom of social change, and therefore our failing culture is not the result of feminism. Either way I think that there is some relationship, and this is controversial. 

There is some evidence that might lend more credibility to the assertions of this video. The feminist, vocal minority that is driving our present social change is heavily laden with anti-patriarchal rhetoric would label me a heretic and have me burned at the stake of social justice for merely bringing this up to discuss. Tragically, and hypocritically we are not allowed to discuss the merits of men, only the follies of men. More hated than the group called 'men' is the sub-group, "White men" as if history is only marred with the failings of such people. 

Europe has birthed the world's greatest explorers and navigators, philosophers, engineers, and scientists. Some of the greatest art, music, and poetry. And is rivaled in some of these things only by the patriarchies in China and India. Europe birthed America, arguably the greatest nation in human history. Let us also not forget the ~350,000 European-descended Union soldiers that gave their lives in the civil war that effectively won the freedom of African-descended slaves in the western hemisphere (Brazil abolished in the 1880's). People conveniently neglect the fact that slavery was a practice that occurred in every corner of the world up until Western nations started questioning the ethics of it. It was not Asians, Arabs, or African's that first challenged the institution of slavery, it was Europeans and those in America that had descended from Europeans. Slavery is not the crime of white people, it is the crime of every people in history, and some even now... but not in the West.  

Feminists will try and wash away the accomplishments of men and highlight the follies of them, except where such men were non-whites, in which case the follies are white-washed (pun intended). The further we travel down this road the more divided we become and the more divided we become the closer we get to repeating the past and crumbling under our own cognitively-dissonant ideologies.

It is not enough to be woke to this.