Following year by year say since '68 their rise inside the Iron Mountain Technoplex offers to interested observers a track record of achievement taking us to this day. The magnetic attraction of unstable people to the theater of power over 50 or 60 years is quite revealing in my eyes of generational characteristics. Their parent's generation in turn mothered by vipers said Philip Wylie-Generation of Vipers. Wylie criticizes various aspects and beliefs of contemporary American society, including Christianity; prominent figures such as politicians, teachers, and doctors; and "momism" or the adoration of mothers. Wylie excoriates American motherhood for creating a false “Cinderella” tale for young girls wherein in they are told to expect material wealth “merely because they are female.”
“The idea women have that life is marshmallows which will come as a gift — an idea promulgated by every medium and many an advertisement — has defeated half the husbands in America. It has made at least half our homes into centers of disillusionment. […] It long ago became associated with the notion that the bearing of children was such an unnatural and hideous ordeal that the mere act entitled women to respite from all other physical and social responsibility.”
Elsewhere, Wylie bemoans the decline of filial duty and its replacement by an unthinking worship of the “mom” figure. Wylie dubbed this cult “Momism.” At the heart of Momism are haggard, ugly women who gossip, smoke over thirty cigarettes a day, and distract themselves with soap operas and heavy drinking and eating bouts. These “Moms,” Wylie notes, are also easy to rile up to political action.
“Mom is organization-minded. Organizations, she has happily discovered, are intimidating to all men, not just to mere men. They frighten politicians to sniveling servility and they terrify pastors; they bother bank presidents and they pulverize school boards. Mom has many such organizations, the real purpose of which is to compel an abject compliance of her environs to her personal desires.”
Wylie’s Momism bears a striking resemblance to the “longhouse” phenomenon most recently articulated by Twitter personality Lomez in a highly controversial article for First Things. Generation of Vipers attacks modern women for their preference for safety and complete control, along with their repugnance for all things masculine. These themes would reappear in Wylie’s 1949 novel Opus 21, which contains several passages deriding the prevalence of single mother households, especially those wherein single mothers raise (or rather attempt to raise) sons. The point of it all, according to Wylie, was Momism’s success at castrating young men and turning them into good, docile worker bees for corporations. In regards to Wylie in the 70's I read him. https://theobelisk.substack.com/p/gladiator-of-the-pen-the-controversial
What a wicked couple they made, Bill and Hillary. Must be because they share 'ill' in their names.
Birds of a feather do flock together!
Following year by year say since '68 their rise inside the Iron Mountain Technoplex offers to interested observers a track record of achievement taking us to this day. The magnetic attraction of unstable people to the theater of power over 50 or 60 years is quite revealing in my eyes of generational characteristics. Their parent's generation in turn mothered by vipers said Philip Wylie-Generation of Vipers. Wylie criticizes various aspects and beliefs of contemporary American society, including Christianity; prominent figures such as politicians, teachers, and doctors; and "momism" or the adoration of mothers. Wylie excoriates American motherhood for creating a false “Cinderella” tale for young girls wherein in they are told to expect material wealth “merely because they are female.”
“The idea women have that life is marshmallows which will come as a gift — an idea promulgated by every medium and many an advertisement — has defeated half the husbands in America. It has made at least half our homes into centers of disillusionment. […] It long ago became associated with the notion that the bearing of children was such an unnatural and hideous ordeal that the mere act entitled women to respite from all other physical and social responsibility.”
Elsewhere, Wylie bemoans the decline of filial duty and its replacement by an unthinking worship of the “mom” figure. Wylie dubbed this cult “Momism.” At the heart of Momism are haggard, ugly women who gossip, smoke over thirty cigarettes a day, and distract themselves with soap operas and heavy drinking and eating bouts. These “Moms,” Wylie notes, are also easy to rile up to political action.
“Mom is organization-minded. Organizations, she has happily discovered, are intimidating to all men, not just to mere men. They frighten politicians to sniveling servility and they terrify pastors; they bother bank presidents and they pulverize school boards. Mom has many such organizations, the real purpose of which is to compel an abject compliance of her environs to her personal desires.”
Wylie’s Momism bears a striking resemblance to the “longhouse” phenomenon most recently articulated by Twitter personality Lomez in a highly controversial article for First Things. Generation of Vipers attacks modern women for their preference for safety and complete control, along with their repugnance for all things masculine. These themes would reappear in Wylie’s 1949 novel Opus 21, which contains several passages deriding the prevalence of single mother households, especially those wherein single mothers raise (or rather attempt to raise) sons. The point of it all, according to Wylie, was Momism’s success at castrating young men and turning them into good, docile worker bees for corporations. In regards to Wylie in the 70's I read him. https://theobelisk.substack.com/p/gladiator-of-the-pen-the-controversial
Nothing uncovers anything better than the documentary called the Clinton Chronicles than in this 1994 documentary https://rumble.com/v2no30m-documentary-the-clinton-chronicles-1994.html
These people were out and out Gangstaaaa!