tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post6233287872132287086..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: The End of Manliness?Larry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-68180056351365932672011-12-19T21:25:35.342+00:002011-12-19T21:25:35.342+00:00It seems to me that women are still attracted to a...It seems to me that women are still attracted to athletes and tough guys, and nerds are still desperate for a date on Friday night, so masculinity won't go away any time soon.Empedoclesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-88777967023006441752011-12-16T18:50:18.937+00:002011-12-16T18:50:18.937+00:00Its funny that you so often use Leo Strauss and Ma...Its funny that you so often use Leo Strauss and Mansfield as strawmen to argue against their notion of supposedly Non-Darwinian manliness. Just because their version of manliness doesn't explicity draw on Darwin does not mean its anti-Darwinian or incompatible.<br /><br />I was reading an interesting book on the influence of Kojeve's End of History on Leo Strauss, Alan Bloom, Fukuyama and the Neocon movment. It seems like a lot of the Nietzschean concerns about the end of manliness parallel your Darwinian concerns. The world will be peaceful, friendly, and nice, and there will be no place for Nietzschean Master morality. We will all have to submit to the bourgeois boring accountants shopkeepers and bureaucrats. <br /><br />I guess the problem is that the decline of the Hitlers of the world, means the decline of the Churchills of the world. Men like Patton might wish for more Rommels, so that he gets to play the hero. But I don't know if Churchill would wish for more Hitlers. <br /><br />Manly virtue has its place. In the face of Hitler, we can't just be Christians and turn the other cheek. On the other hand, does it make sense to lament the end of Hitlers, since it means the end of Churchills? We can defend the use of defensive violence, without celebrating the virtue of violence for the sake of violence. <br /><br />Like Sherman said the glory of war is all moonshine. America doesn't have the Prussian warrior tradition. The same boring accountants and bank clerks who Nietzscheans lament as Last men, are the ones who kicked the butt of Hitler's Aryan supermen. The dopey boy scouts beat the Hitler youth, and then went home to live boring lives with the house in the suburbs with the white picket fence. <br /><br />I think the defenders of manliness, from the evolutionary psychology perspective often start to echo the most radical feminists. They assign all the traditional Christian virtues to women, and all the sins to men. And then argue that society is oppressing manly virtue. Too much of evopsych seems to me, to be saying men are evil, so any attempt to suppress evil is anti-male. <br /><br />There is always the French Foreign legion to run away to if a young man really wants action and adventure. But how many men, who lament the decline of manliness, are really serious about leaving behind their safe comfortable 21st century suburban lives, and looking for cavemen conflict in the parts of life where they can still find it?Mopenhauernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-46399404088358831902011-12-14T20:15:26.796+00:002011-12-14T20:15:26.796+00:00The interview with Colbert was pathetic. Mansfield...The interview with Colbert was pathetic. Mansfield should avoid at all costs that type of exposure.<br /><br />His views were twisted as that of a backwards scary man.JPVVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-77622779542243338672011-12-14T19:50:17.717+00:002011-12-14T19:50:17.717+00:00Your articles are eye-opening.
As an atheist cons...Your articles are eye-opening.<br /><br />As an atheist conservative I tend to agree with everything you write.<br /><br />Keep up the good work.JPVVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-33535489779587850182011-12-09T04:38:36.919+00:002011-12-09T04:38:36.919+00:00War/violence is about obtaining reproductive statu...War/violence is about obtaining reproductive status and hence mating opportunities.<br /><br />Men without honor or pride, resign themselves to cuckoldry/reproductive extinction.chrisnoreply@blogger.com