One sign of hope for avoiding an American gender war is that the bulk of today’s “dropout” men are not motivated by gendered ideological zeal. They’re motivated by a desire to gain peace after experiencing an environment that they can’t exist in anymore. This is shown by the lack of a male equivalent to the feminist movement, even while the number of alienated men explodes.
As a rule, the men who’ve been withdrawing from the dating market, careers, or friendships aren’t doing so because they want to join an ideological crusade; they’re simply voting “no confidence” by abstaining from the social contract. This isn’t the mentality of a dangerous misogynist element, it’s the mentality of a group with rising depression and suicide. This is a reality that’s obscured within the increasingly prominent rhetoric vilifying our society’s “excess males.” It’s also something that impedes the efforts of those seeking to pull these left-behinds into the “men’s rights movement,” or any other ideological cause.
Within this passive rebellion, there is potential for class consciousness, for the building of a mass organizational force that brings these men together with all the other victims of global capital. To defeat the attempts at dividing the working masses, and provide these left-behinds with a means for asserting their interests, we will need to grasp just what kind of crisis they’re facing.
I’m speaking both to whatever men who may be able to relate to the conditions I’m describing here, and to my fellow participants in the realm of working-class organizing. This is a civilizational crisis that can only be rectified if we update our views of society according to how society has changed in this last generation. If we seek to liberate the masses from our banking dictatorship, we’ll need to go into the parts of the masses who are being pushed out of the traditional life paths.
For working-class men and women, this process of being “de-classed” looks different, and this discrepancy is by design. There has appeared a stark and growing divide between the lifestyles of the sexes, creating contradictions that the gender war psyop can exploit. For Americans who are Gen Z or younger, there is now a reverse gender pay gap; in our environment where Wall Street has engineered a perpetual unemployment crisis, and raised interest rates incentivize businesses to reduce headcount, it’s comparatively harder for men to get chosen. This relates to a much older problem where our educational system has been set up to be hostile towards the male brain, leading to a bigger proportion of women getting degrees and their associated careers.
At the same time that this educational gap has been widening, the pool of potential graduates has been shrinking, because since 2008 the birth rate’s decline has greatly accelerated. Universities are now starting to become vocally concerned about this; and the inevitable scaling-down in these institutions compounds an existing trend, one where higher education has been getting progressively dismantled. The direction of our ruling system is to increasingly discard the professional class, and this keeps making the “normie” lifestyle less accessible; which is another factor that could produce unity among the masses, since more of the professionals are becoming proletarianized. But this unity will emerge only if we overcome the civilizational imbalances that could make the gender wars become worse, and lead to greater atomization instead of solidarity.
All of these trends—the decline in new families, the shrinking of the job market, the gender-slanted elite overproduction—have acted to isolate the sexes from each other in a physical sense. There’s been a concentration of women into the metropolitan areas as women go on the higher-education pathway, while men born in the rural areas go towards the manual labor careers often found within their own hometowns. Combined with the shrinking number of younger people, the calculus many women have made to not choose men who can’t provide, and the disappearance of communal “third spaces” that 2020 greatly accelerated, this leaves many millions of men with no prospects for marriage. As trends stand right now, relationships between men and women are dying out. However, we should not expect the United States to “go extinct” in the way that south Korea or Japan are, and this is because of a particular societal factor: the great presence and future growth potential for America’s religious institutions.
Gen Z is seeing a religious revival, but not in the way that the media portrays it. This change is only happening within a specific part of Gen Z, this being the one that’s not caught up in the atomization process which keeps driving individuals into the “left behind” class. The number of conversions has been overstated, but they are happening, with Gen Z men being the main participants in this shift so far. What could bring many more men and women down this path is the undermining of the universities, a disruption that will leave former professional class members adrift but will incentivize many others to become religious.
This turn towards religion will not translate to a rise of support for ruling-class politics, but quite the opposite; two of the biggest institutions that have been seeing increased interest are anti-Zionist Islam, and the Catholic Church, which rejects theological Zionism and American exceptionalism. The picture that’s emerging is one where our civilization sees an expansion in the community structures which let new families happen, and a solidification of anti-systemic popular sentiments within these communities.
These developments on their own will not lift most of the “excess” males out of their condition, because the gender demographic imbalance won’t be solved without massive structural changes. What the religious revival will do, though, is create a sense of collective solidarity that wasn’t there in the earlier stages of our crisis.
Gender war politics have been able to do so much damage because what’s now considered the “successful” life path is one that’s completely hostile towards those who society has abandoned, with excess males being an easy target for this classist worldview. The hyper-individualist culture that’s promoted by university-tied professions is one which despises whoever falls behind. But in the culture of the alternative careers that are offered by the Catholic Church, professionals are actively encouraged to provide aid to those who are struggling.
As Gen Z’s new religious recruits respond to higher education’s sabotage by building new professional paths within the church, our government will increasingly try to suppress Islam and Catholicism. This assault on religious freedom will go along with the escalating war against the unions, the dissident political organizations, and the ability to engage in speech. These provocations by our rulers will force a rupture in our society whose effects reach everyone, including the “excess” males. We’ll all have to choose whether we want to stay on the sidelines, and watch as a Zionist-imperialist regime destroys the people’s basis for independent power; or join in on the fight to rescue our civilization. This is the confrontation that our generation’s collective tragedy has been building up to, and it will provide a purpose to millions of people who’ve been shut out of the “normie” life path.
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