Two days ago we posted a blog piece, The best way to brew coffee, and a reflection on the future of Western civilisation. It concluded with these thoughts by Mike Buchanan:

The decline of Western civilisation is underway. Its collapse is both inevitable and irreversible.

I could have worded the second sentiment more accurately, and should have. If a collapse is inevitable it’s also irreversible. I should have replaced the sentence with, “Its collapse is inevitable.”

As he sometimes does, cp responded with some insightful comments, for which we thank him. They take up the remainder of this blog piece, the hyperlinks are ours:

“Hi Mike – Your observations on the trajectory of western civilisation and the root causes struck several chords at once!! The psychologist Joost Meerloo wrote a book in the mid-1950s – The Rape of the Mind – in which he described the methods of thought control which were were currently being used by authoritarian states. Magical Thinking features prominently. Meerloo and George Orwell probably knew one another through their wartime work for British intelligence. Orwell utilised his experiences to write a work of fiction in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Meerloo wrote his factual work. Both seem to have been utilised as a playbook for the feminist gaslighting we see all around us these days.

As companion volumes to Meerloo’s The Rape of the Mind, I’d heartily recommend The Master And His Emissary (2010) by Professor Iain McGilchrist. He details what can happen when the power-hungry (and oestrogen-sensitive) left brain is given too much of the power it seeks. Much of that behaviour we see all around us has its roots in female ressentiment.

The other companion volume is The Rape of the Male Mind by Michael Steane. It gets to the root of how Pandora’s Box was opened. Quote:

“Our big mistake was to give women the vote. After that, the modern male tragedy became inevitable. When women got the vote, they became the majority of the electorate. Politicians at odds with each other on every other issue fell over each other to pander to the female vote. These politicians, being men, did not understand what women want, and (convincing themselves that they were modern un-sexist men), wantonly gave away men’s rights. These are not the rights women want, but they are the rights men need. Thus, men have been impoverished, while women have not been enriched.”

This process began at a time when nearly all politicians were male. Slowly, but surely, like a ship running down a launchway, the chains which at one time slowed it down – the male checks & balances – are all but lost. Now, with a preponderance of feminist politicians (of both sexes), magical thinking can run amok… crew members of forced ‘equality’ vying to guide a mammoth, rudderless vessel which will take everyone down with it when it hits the rocks.”

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