The Choice

“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” – Pope John Paul II

Contents:
1.) The Male Perspective – A Quandary
1a.) The Patriarch’s Problem
1b.) The Bachelor’s Problem
2.) The Female Perspective – A Prize
3.) The Differences Between Men & Women In Summary
4.) The Civilizational Perspective – A Crisis
5.) In Closing
6.) Relevant Reading

1.) The Male Perspective – A Quandary:

To enjoy the decline, or to start a family, that is the question. And of course this is a problem unique to man, particularly those conscious and critical of the paradigm we occupy, for it is not a consideration that even crosses the threshold of consciousness within the indoctrinated drone. And yet unlike the drone who knows no quandary, who idly autopilots his way into an unremarkable 5-10 year marriage that yields 2.1 children, the more enlightened man finds himself in the pivotal yet privileged position of making an informed choice about his future’s course.

Such a man is free to direct his fate absent the demands of religious indoctrination or self-serving women. After all, should one of the most important decisions of a man’s life be made by anyone other than the man himself? Does a man pressured and cajoled into starting a family do so on his own terms, or on the terms of those with a plan for him? With both reason of mind and heart of soul, the man free of spells and delusions can exercise his mental sovereignty by weighing up the risks and rewards of the lifestyle choices available to him, be that the life of a patriarch, or the life of a bachelor.

A self-respecting, free thinking and proud man should not be bullied into marrying, not by religion, nor by the woman manoeuvring to get a ring on her finger. A man should make this decision free of external devices and with full mental clarity, for a man should establish a serious relationship in much the way he would seek to maintain it. Therefore it stands to reason that should a man be cajoled or duped into marriage and babies, that although it may initially fill the dissimulating woman with nought but estrogenic rejoice and maternal glee, that such shadowy foundations do not bode well for said relationship’s success or longevity.

A strong man does not respond to shame, he acknowledges it for the manipulative transgression that it is, disregards it as folly, and continues to forge his path absent the mechanisations of such duplicity.

The free man wonders which lifestyle choice would be in his best interest, and is he, no matter what he does, condemned to an unforgivable degree of heartache either way? If marriage leads to divorce and bachelorhood lead to childless loneliness, what is a man to do? A choice between misery or loneliness is hardly palatable.

1a.) The Patriarch’s Problem:

If a man is to marry, there is reasonable fear the fresh legal supremacy enjoyed by his woman will disrupt the balance of power the relationship’s smooth functionality was established upon. The informed man is all too aware the legal privilege of the modern wife can be used to force him into domestic servitude, and that legally speaking, the marriage hangs on a thread tied to a hovering sword that follows him wherever he goes.

From the moment he has said “I do”, a looming sword of Damocles stalks him, scrutinising his every action. Too many mistakes and the sword falls, divorce will be initiated, and financial and emotional chaos is wrought.

Now of course there is an imbecilic, ignorant argument to be made that “not all women are like that“, and indeed this is true, not all women will whimsically detonate the divorce bomb. And yet a wise man in his prudence must ask himself “is my woman like that?” and then follow up this question with “if my woman is not like that, is it likely she could become like that?” in which case the resounding answer is “easily”.

If too much comfort is indulged, if too much is neglected or too much left to chance – the ruination of marital union is all but a certainty. A marriage is like a car hanging off a cliff, it requires the man driving to accelerate now and again to ensure the car does not tilt and fall into the ocean below. Like courting, in marriage the burden of performance is man’s to bear.

If man fails as a husband or is perceived to have failed, easily he loses everything; if his woman is an abysmal failure of a wife on the other hand, she gets a pay day and a fresh chance. In today’s society a woman’s marriage risk is minimal, and of course, this comes at the expense of man’s being astronomical. Women do not fear marriage because they have not a single reason to, men do because they have every reason to.

A marriage’s odds of success are merely improved, but still mightily unfavourable for man even when the potential wife is of considerable quality. And so although it is not impossible to become a patriarch, it is a dangerous affair regardless of who is involved. This danger is neither explicitly the man nor the woman involved’s fault, but rather, the judicial system that makes marriage so costly to men.

The success of a marriage is of course dependent solely on the parties involved, but what was once merely a monumental investment on the part of man has been perverted by the misandry of feminism into a monumental gamble. A sensible man is not a gambling man, he does not wager half his assets and his emotional stability on the odds of a woman’s whim remaining pretty. No matter who is involved, this aspect remains the same: a man has no assurances nor protection from the state, in a worst case scenario, the woman is protected and the man is all but vulnerable. Idiots will marry blindly and gamblers will marry brazenly, whilst sensible men will abstain and the intelligently romantic delay.

As such, it is a lazy and ill-cultured wife’s prerogative to “cash in” the marriage whenever she deems fit, for if she and her husband are at odds, and it is too difficult, too cumbersome and too taxing for her to compromise, she can force the man to leave, keep the home he laboured for, and make off with much of his present and future wealth.

1b.) The Bachelor’s Problem:

The opposing side of the quandary is of course the lust for family and lineage, for one to not die childless and alone. The informed man wishes not to be ravaged by the effects of feminist marriage, and yet neither does he wish to be wrecked by the absence of companionship or children in his elder years.

Where the patriarch fears divorce, the bachelor fears childlessness and loneliness. Although men are not as dependent on family as women for sanity, success and happiness, they still value family. The reluctance to marry is thus an amalgamation of distrust of women unionised with a distrust of the legal system that will hang them out to dry should things go south.

The bachelor is a man who values his freedom more than most, and thus the constraints, demands and expectations inappreciatively thrust upon him by a wife do not appeal. This does not mean such a man would not enjoy being a father, but rather that, becoming one would mean giving up a violable degree of his freedom to the mother.

For the bachelor, a rat pack is his family replacement. Through the formation of a rat pack, a bachelor can assuage his loneliness and need for tribe. A rat pack is a small tribe of cohabiting, single and childless men. Such an arrangement allows the group to fully indulge in the wealth and freedom of childless singledom without any of its accompanying loneliness. However, the want to reproduce is not so easily assuaged.

Men sensitive to, and aware of the nature of evolution feel they have a genetic imperative to reproduce, and thus the quandary presents itself: is a man to enter an institution hostile to him so that he may build a family, or is he to enjoy the full succulence of his fruits but leave no worldly legacy once he’s gone? The artistic man may leave his creations and the academic man may leave his research, but what of the layman, and are achievements even comparable to children in matters of legacy?

This is a choice all informed men must make, and there is no right or wrong answer. It is my presupposition that most informed men will take full advantage of their extended fertility window and opt to settle down with a younger woman in middle-age. I believe most informed men are willing to risk divorce in their elder years if it means they got to lead a good life before becoming a father.

2.) The Female Perspective – A Prize:

Women do not face the quandary that idiotic men shirk and informed men face. Women’s marriage risk is minimal, and unlike man’s, their fertility window is short. The nature of a woman’s limited fertility is precisely why once women have decided they want to settle down, they’re in a rush to do so. As opposed to men who are happy to take their time and more rigorously vet their mate, especially with older women who by merit of their availability are immediately suspect.

Of course, fertility is only part of the equation – men hold the keys to commitment, and women to sex. If commitment, attention and provision is what women value most, then men are the gatekeepers of this and marriage is a jackpot in which a woman is bestowed an endless supply of these things.

If a 50-year-old woman had the charm, sex appeal and mental stability of her 20-year-old self, she’d be as leisurely as the men her age in regard to the rate the relationships grows. Yet whether a woman can admit it to herself or not, she is intuitively aware that as she ages her capacity to attract a top-tier mate decreases. Each passing year a woman’s power erodes, and thus like anybody all too aware of their depreciation, the cleverest women will attempt to capitalise on their power whilst it’s still potent.

The question of marriage is always a no-brainer for a woman, as I previously state, this quandary is in the sole jurisdiction of man. If a woman asked me, “IM, should I get married? I’d say “Yes, as soon as you can, ideally no later than 25” because marriage is a really good deal for women. For women, marriage represents the things it scarcely does for men – financial security and psychological sanity.

And although I do not write much in a manner conducive to a woman’s viewpoint or need, it does not mean that I do not understand the importance of marriage and babies to a woman. It is the life goal of all intelligent and sensible women to become wives and mothers, scarcely can a woman achieve the happiness in business that her man can, for being a mother buzzing in the embrace of family is a woman’s highest calling. It’s where they draw their emotional nourishment, it gives them a sense of internal completion, and to honour her husband whilst suckling her young is in and of itself, a noble goal.

3.) The Differences Between Men & Women In Summary:

Men get purpose from art and business, whereas women get purpose from the family, not all men and not all women, but generally speaking this is accurate. This doesn’t mean men don’t want family, it just means they need it less, and a longer fertility window means they can sensibly delay it too.

Testosterone needs challenge, estrogen needs comfort, this is why women are more relationship orientated than men, for it provides the apex of their happiness, their very reason for being, to be admired and feel important and necessary as a matriarch in a family rich in love and abundance.

Family is important to men, but so are aspects irrespective of it. A man’s priorities are more evenly weighted than a woman’s. If his family does not have an immediate need, rather than manufacture a need to fill (as a woman wanting to feel relevant will do) he will busy himself with commerce (resource acquisition) or art (an outlet for his masculine creativity that the wonderful yet splendid mundanity of family life does not provide).

A woman on the other hand is lost without family, no matter how much she attempts to fill the void with art, business or pets, she cannot help but feel a most profound sense of absence strike the core of her being. Whether she knows it or not, the very core of her fiber yearns to be a wife and mother, no matter her opinion of that, she is powerless to escape this most visceral of compulsion.

4.) The Civilizational Perspective – A Crisis: