Dear George,
The 60s were a wakeup call for the Corporatist State. What terrible times they were as freedom spread across the land like a cancer with all of the chaos and disorder that is so symptomatic of liberty.
The last forty years have seen the gradual ratcheting down of control by the oligarchy. It has been incremental as in the gradual tightening of thumbscrews, the pressure applied so gradually that when the victim finally feels pain it is too late to do anything about it because the screws are crushing the thumbs making it impossible for the victim to pull away.
The reestablishment of State control began with our draconian drug laws, a response to the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s. If we couldn’t segregate Blacks in their ghettos, we’d segregate them in our prisons. More restrictive legislation followed as politician fell all over themselves to prove to their frightened constituents that they weren’t “soft” on crime. (Remember the word “soft”, George. It has a deeper significance).
Finally 9/11 cleared the way to tighten the screws even more with the Patriot Act, the legitimization of torture and the junking of habeas corpus. Our national obsession with law and order peaked when a poor soul Arizona drew a 200-year prison term for possessing, not producing, several photos depicting kiddy porn. Had he been charged in federal court, the maximum sentence would have been four years.
Correction: we are obsessed with “order”, not “law and order.”
When we speak of someone being “soft” on terrorism, drugs, or whatever, the word resonates with a deeper meaning. The 1820s saw an unholy alliance between middleclass women and Protestant ministers. Thus began a gradual feminization of America as they reformed jails and insane asylums and started pushing for hygiene and sanitation. It peaked in the 60s with feminized flower children spouting platitudes about peace and love.
Well, thank God the men have taken back the power. The guys fired the first shot when they killed the Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment, itself, wasn’t a problem; it didn’t provide for anything women didn’t already have. The problem was that the amendment fed into a feminine conceit that had been festering for 180 years.
Our brave new age is summed up in the assertion that, “All men want to go to Baghdad; real men go to Tehran.”
Yes, George, we are in the age of the hard-on, an age when a man shows his worth by whipping it out and putting it on display. We've torn our babies from their mother’s tit and put them on the bottle so they’ll have hair on their chest when they grow up.
Life is tough, and it’s a man’s duty to make it even tougher so our children grow up tough. A father in the Dutch movie, Character summed up developmental psychology in the twenty-first century. In describing how he raised his son he said, “If I strangle him for nine-tenths of his life, the last tenth will make him strong.” The fact that the father committed suicide because his son rejected him is beside the point.
With women marginalized, we can continue to build the power of the Corporatist State until it is so strong, none can oppose it.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
5:10:32 AM 
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