Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

I was reading Jared Diamonds book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed" and there was a fascinating concept called creeping normalcy.

Diamond was writing about how things in society change slowly and nobody
really notices. His example was Easter Island and how the society cut down
all the trees over a couple of hundred years and by doing that brought down
their whole society. It happened so slowly that nobody really noticed the
last trees coming down. When the trees did come down the soil was ripe for
erosion, firewood and building materials were gone and after society
collapsed. According to archaeological evidence they turned on each other
and civil war and cannibalization happened...

I could not help but think about men here in the West. Slowly over time we
have this creeping normalization of pitching men out of society. It started
years ago, just small changes. Women do have a right to work, a right to do
as they want. Then slowly over time it went from basic human rights to
ridiculous laws and the demonization of men. It went from basic human rights
to making men subservient...

In the media there was the odd show that showed a man as a bumbling moron.
Granted it was funny as men were not generally seen as that, it might have
been funny... Now I cannot listen to the radio nor watch TV where all men
are not portrayed as idiots. Slowly, slowly it crept in and now the
normality is men are idiots.

In the legal circles it was a decent and good move to make sure that men
would take care of their families. But that move was a long time ago. With
creeping normalization there have been waves of laws that now jail men for
falling behind through no fault of their own. Ask yourself, what will the
laws be in a few more years. In a sense society is removing the trees that
anchor our soil and what happens when they are all gone?

Creeping normalcy comes into play when we try to realize what has happened
over the years even in our relationships with women. It was normal and good
at one time to protect women from bad men. Rape and sexual harassment laws
were justified at one time. Now just one comment and your screwed in your
job, your profession and your home. Over time the concept goes from
reasonable (no, you really should not be grabbing a fellow co-workers ass)
to not even being able to say "nice hair" and not be in serious shit. it
goes from punishing rapists to unfounded accusations and destroying a man
based on no evidence.

It goes from the sublime and reasonable to ridiculous. It goes from making
sure children are taken care of, to you being in jail. It goes from sexual
assault to not being able to speak at all. It goes from being a member of
society who is respected, to being a monster and an accident waiting to
happen. It goes so slowly, it creeps up on us and the normal today was the
ridiculous of yesteryear.

When we look back we can see that most laws were started with a reasonable
basis. Now though that is all gone and the trees (or men) are being cut down
wholesale. But nobody except a given few even notice.

And what happens when the trees or the men, the essentials of society are
cut down and disappear? It shows what happens when you look at a lonely
island in the Pacific Ocean. It ends with society eating itself and ending
in flames. It ends very badly.

We are creeping toward a very strange normalcy. Slowly but surely we are
creating chaos here. By destroying men, we are destroying our society.
Slowly, slowly but surely.

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