re: "No Culture for Alienated Men" (The New York Times, June 17, 2023)
Whilst he might not offer solutions, Mr Douthat does at least delineate a problem with traditional conceptions of masculinity.
If any of the gods existed, it would be their fault for having made such seriously botched men, and for then failing to update their products. In their absence, mindless nature is the prime culprit, one from which we can't escape. In the absence of divine creators, blind nature, accidents of insemination and environment, makes us all exactly what we are, including the Kaczynskis, the Berlusconis and the Cormacs, along with the Jesuses, the Socrates, and the Cormacs.
Nature, in the meantime, continues as it always has.
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