Writings of a Mad Man... Da Old Skool Marriage Strike!

This is the work of ... a sick friend who is no longer in the MRA Business.

This post is very timely, as people across the West refuse to marry. While this may seem to be a new phenomena to some, rest assured that the Marriage Strike has very ancient roots.

Men, when it doesn't suit their best interests, have no qualms about going their own way. And until we are restored to our formerly held places of respect and honor, the Marriage Strike will continue unabated.

Check it out!

Kumogakure.

... In keeping with this, I check in frequently with my favorite Anti-Islamic terrorist blog: Jihad Watch.

Today I came across this profound comment:

Americans, I have some questions -

As a European, I have watched all of our countries speed toward their eventual decline. I cannot get the History of the Western Roman Empire out of my head. In the end, there was apathy, inability to control their borders, and finally an inability to raise a proper army. I see this happening to the States and it makes me sad.

I have written this before - Right now, the media would have you believe that the whole world hates the Yanks. Say what you want about George; however, at least your President and your Country will fight. I worry about Western Civilization. So, I stand with the Americans. Europe has failed. "Political Correctness" has established a foothold here. It is not popular to say this; but, only the Americans are really doing something about this.

Why must I respect Islam? Why must I see Christians and Jews ridiculed in our own media? Religion of Peace?!?!?!? So far, I have not seen anything resembling peace from the East. Sure, they have their Pillars of Faith.....However, are they currently living by them???

Americans, do not vote in an unabashed liberal as President! Please!! It is time to get mean. It is so improper to use the word "Crusade;" however, why not? Why not? And, please do not start going on and on about abuses done in the name of a Crusade 800 years ago. That was then and this is now. The reality is that Western Civilization is at a crossroad. What will we do? My Continent has failed. I truly hope that America does not forget people jumping out of a World Trade Center Tower rather than burning to death. An angry America is a righteous weapon. Do not give up and do not give in!

I will never kneel in a Mosque!

Posted by: LouisRusso at March 10, 2007 03:29 PM

Powerful.

Even as I read it again, I find myself getting a little teary eyed.

The helplessness.

The desperation.

The sadness, and the regret.

Whether it be feminism, cultural marxism, anti-gun regulations, attempts to eliminate free speech from the people, increasing demographic and economic instability, increasing unwillingness to defend the Republic,

(see the Family Security Matters survey here: hxxp://familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=666571 )

and attempts to create a North American Superstate... it seems to me that our lady Western Civilization and Culture... is dying.

We are living in the last days.

If nothing else, at least our eventual collapse will be the most blogged about and recorded event in the history of the world.

Today I would like to spend some time on the history of the Roman Empire, and look at some elements that they and we share in common:

1) A vigorous and ever expanding Marriage Strike by men in response to discriminatory law and custom

2) Increasing social instability due to serial monogamy (or serial polygamy, to be more precise) and rampant divorce.

In the work Was Jesus Married? by William Phipps, we find that:

"...Throughout history many have thought that some of the most difficult testing has been associated with problems arising from trying to live responsibily with souse, children and in-laws.

Socrates marital predicament with Xanthippe is a classic example. When asked how could he tolerate living with such a shrew, he replied that marriage to her had refined his character. He believed that learning to cope with her scolding tempered him for the peculiarities of all others.

In the Roman era, there were many, unlike Socrates, who did not appreciate of accept the moral testing afforded by the nuptial bond. Among Jesus’ pagan contemporaries there was a growing distaste for married life because of the burdens it imposed.

Indeed, the single life became so much in vogue in Rome that Caesar Augustus became concerned about the stability of the state. He issued a series of laws designed to impose penalties of property upon all the unmarried over twenty years of age. His decrees were considered so despicable by those who preferred the easier unattached life that citizens “insisted vehemently that he should repeal the law about celibacy and childlessness.” Augustus then addressed the bachelors: “What am I to call you? Men? You have not yet proven yourselves to be men (Phipps, 1970, p. 59).

St. John Chrysostom adds, “ Would you have me speak of the domestic cares of wife and children and slaves? It is an evil thing to wed a very poor wife, or a very rich one; for the former is injurious to the husband’s means, the latter to his authority and independence… is this then life… when one’s soul is distracted in so many directions, when a man has to serve so many, to live for so many, and never for himself? (Phipps, p. 60-61)."

My astute readers know that all they have to do to find modern day Giants who disavow marriage (for very good reasons) is to look at my blogroll.

The Mighty Eternal Bachelor for one...

The Illustrious Mirror of the Soul for another.

Scripturally Single, who writes from a Christian perspective...

Even Youtubers are getting in on the act.

Many Men from all walks of life are increasingly choosing not to marry. It looks like the Marriage Strike has very ancient roots indeed.

The book Polygamy Reconsidered, by the Rev. Eugene Hillman, tells us that:

… The Christian acceptance of monogamy, as the only permissible form of marriate, had its own problematical side effects.

The legal monogamy insisted upon by the Greeks and the Romans was often supplemented with institutionalized concubinage and widespread prostitution, and divorce was a recurring problem.

In the Roman world, at the time of Jesus the marriage rate had declined so seriously that legislation was enacted to penalize the unmarried. Marriage for procreation was a patriotic as well as a religious duty among the Romans.

“Single adults,” says Gerald Leslie, “were disqualified from receiving inheritances unless they married within a prescribed period. In reaction against the prevailing conditions in Rome, the Christians insisted upon the pure monogamy of the Greco-Roman tradition; and, perhaps to some extent over-reacting, they exalted celibacy over marriage, with they seemed to value mainly as a remedy for concupiscence.

Nineteen centuries of Christianity have not entirely removed the ancient concomitant of legal monogamy: concubinage, prostitution, and divorce (Hillman, 1975, p.21).

The question of Polygamy vs. Monogamy is an interesting one, but we will not touch on that here. The main things I would like to point out are that:

1) Prostitution, concubinage, and divorce were Roman family values, as is the case in our society today.

2) Christianity, having drunken deeply from the wells of Gnosticism and Paganism, carried on traditional practices of the Greeks and the Romans such as monogamy, celibacy, and of course, a tolerance for divorce, which Christ strongly condemned.

What all this tells me is that we have inherited some serious institutional liabilities from our Greco-Roman forbearers, and these weaknesses are being exploited by cultural marxists, feminists, Jihadis, and others in our present age.

In addition, we are facing the additional challenges of a weakening Christianity and a hyper-masculine Islamic onslaught.

The Republic then, faces dire challenges from without, as well as within.

In short... the problems we are experiencing are much deeper than most of us know; and if we as a society do nothing to address them, we will share the same fate as the Spartan and the Roman civilizations.