Okay so this is an excerpt from Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald, not much of the book is remotely related to inceldom except this part that is spent critiquing the work of Freud. Most of what is said here is probably nothing that hasn't been said before, but I think it is always important to have eloquently written arguments on tap. This was also probably one of my first redpills, while I knew most of this before I never had it so eloquently put in a way that is clear and easy to understand. I also find it rather amusing that he basically calls women misogynists for choosing chad since forced monogamy respecc women more, a funny way to bait feminists.
[excerpt from The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis Of Jewish Involvement In 20th Century Intellectual & Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald]
Western marriage has long been monogamous and exogamous, and these features contrast strongly
with features of other stratified societies, especially societies from the Near East, such as ancient Israel.
Freud's views in Totem and Taboo and Civilization and Its Discontents represent a failure to
grasp the uniqueness of Roman and later Christian institutions of marriage and the role of Christian
religious practices in producing the uniquely egalitarian mating systems characteristic of Western Europe.
In Western Europe the repression of sexual behavior has fundamentally served to support
socially imposed monogamy, a mating system in which differences in male wealth are much less
associated with access to females and reproductive success than in traditional non-Western civilizations where polygyny has been the norm.
Polygyny implies sexual competition among males, with wealthy males having access to vastly
disproportionate numbers of women and lower-status men often being unable to mate at all.
This type of marriage system is very common among the traditional stratified human societies of the world,
such as classical China, India , the Muslim societies, and ancient Israel. While poor males cannot find a mate
in such a system, women are reduced to chattel and are typically purchased as concubines by wealthy males.
Socially imposed monogamy thus represents a relatively egalitarian mating system.
Moreover, because of higher levels of sexual competition among males, the status of women in non-Western
societies is immeasurably lower than in Western societies where monogamy has developed.
It is no accident that the recent movement toward women's rights developed in Western societies rather
than in the other stratified societies of the world. The massive confusion characteristic of psychoanalysis is also
apparent in Freud's close colleague,Fritz Wittels. Wittels expected an era of liberation and sexual freedom to be
ushered in by a group of Jewish psychoanalytic messianists, but his expectation was based on a profound
misunderstanding of sex and human psychology. Wittels condemned "our contemporary goddamned culture"
for forcing women into "the cage of monogamy", a comment that completely misunderstands the effects of
inter-male sexual competition as represented by polygyny.
...
An important effect of Western institutions of sex and marriage was to facilitate high-investment parenting.
As already indicated, perhaps the most basic mistake Freud made was the systematic conflation of sex and love.
This was also his most subversive mistake, and one cannot overemphasize the absolutely disastrous consequences
of accepting the Freudian view that sexual liberation would have salutary effects on society. Contrary to the psychoanalytic
perspective, evolutionary theory is compatible with a discrete systems perspective in which there are at least two independent
systems influencing reproductive behavior. One system is a pair bonding system that facilitates stable pair bonds and high
investment parenting. This system essentially brings the father into the family as a provider of resources for children providing the
basis for close affectional ties (romantic love) between men and women. There is good evidence for such a system
both in attachment research and personality psychology. The second system may be characterized as a sexual attraction-mating
system that facilitates mating and short-term sexual relationships . This system is psychometrically associated with extroversion,
sensation seeking, aggression, and other appetitive systems. Psychological research supports the hypothesis that individuals
who are high on these systems tend to have more sexual partners and relatively disinhibited sexual behavior.
Highest in young-adult males, this system underlies a low-investment style of mating behavior in which the male's
role is simply to inseminate females rather than provide continuing investment in the children.
Many human societies have been characterized by intense sexual competition among males to control large numbers of females.
This males pursuit of large numbers of mates and sexual relationships has nothing to do with love.
It is the defining characteristic of Western culture to have significantly inhibited this male tendency while at the same time providing
cultural supports for pair bonding and companionate marriage. This result has been a relatively egalitarian, high-investment mating system.
The psychoanalytic emphasis on legitimizing sexuality and premarital sex is therefore fundamentally a program that promotes low-investment parenting styles...
- excerpt from The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis Of Jewish Involvement In 20th Century Intellectual & Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald
Another part I also really like about this, is its emphasis on how uncontrolled female sexuality is actually dysgenic in the long run.
There is this whole meme that because since women choose the strongest men, letting women choose is completely eugenic but it clearly isn't when it just leads to low-investment parented children who have the sophistication of gorillas looking for the next stacy to inseminate.
[excerpt from The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis Of Jewish Involvement In 20th Century Intellectual & Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald]
Western marriage has long been monogamous and exogamous, and these features contrast strongly
with features of other stratified societies, especially societies from the Near East, such as ancient Israel.
Freud's views in Totem and Taboo and Civilization and Its Discontents represent a failure to
grasp the uniqueness of Roman and later Christian institutions of marriage and the role of Christian
religious practices in producing the uniquely egalitarian mating systems characteristic of Western Europe.
In Western Europe the repression of sexual behavior has fundamentally served to support
socially imposed monogamy, a mating system in which differences in male wealth are much less
associated with access to females and reproductive success than in traditional non-Western civilizations where polygyny has been the norm.
Polygyny implies sexual competition among males, with wealthy males having access to vastly
disproportionate numbers of women and lower-status men often being unable to mate at all.
This type of marriage system is very common among the traditional stratified human societies of the world,
such as classical China, India , the Muslim societies, and ancient Israel. While poor males cannot find a mate
in such a system, women are reduced to chattel and are typically purchased as concubines by wealthy males.
Socially imposed monogamy thus represents a relatively egalitarian mating system.
Moreover, because of higher levels of sexual competition among males, the status of women in non-Western
societies is immeasurably lower than in Western societies where monogamy has developed.
It is no accident that the recent movement toward women's rights developed in Western societies rather
than in the other stratified societies of the world. The massive confusion characteristic of psychoanalysis is also
apparent in Freud's close colleague,Fritz Wittels. Wittels expected an era of liberation and sexual freedom to be
ushered in by a group of Jewish psychoanalytic messianists, but his expectation was based on a profound
misunderstanding of sex and human psychology. Wittels condemned "our contemporary goddamned culture"
for forcing women into "the cage of monogamy", a comment that completely misunderstands the effects of
inter-male sexual competition as represented by polygyny.
...
An important effect of Western institutions of sex and marriage was to facilitate high-investment parenting.
As already indicated, perhaps the most basic mistake Freud made was the systematic conflation of sex and love.
This was also his most subversive mistake, and one cannot overemphasize the absolutely disastrous consequences
of accepting the Freudian view that sexual liberation would have salutary effects on society. Contrary to the psychoanalytic
perspective, evolutionary theory is compatible with a discrete systems perspective in which there are at least two independent
systems influencing reproductive behavior. One system is a pair bonding system that facilitates stable pair bonds and high
investment parenting. This system essentially brings the father into the family as a provider of resources for children providing the
basis for close affectional ties (romantic love) between men and women. There is good evidence for such a system
both in attachment research and personality psychology. The second system may be characterized as a sexual attraction-mating
system that facilitates mating and short-term sexual relationships . This system is psychometrically associated with extroversion,
sensation seeking, aggression, and other appetitive systems. Psychological research supports the hypothesis that individuals
who are high on these systems tend to have more sexual partners and relatively disinhibited sexual behavior.
Highest in young-adult males, this system underlies a low-investment style of mating behavior in which the male's
role is simply to inseminate females rather than provide continuing investment in the children.
Many human societies have been characterized by intense sexual competition among males to control large numbers of females.
This males pursuit of large numbers of mates and sexual relationships has nothing to do with love.
It is the defining characteristic of Western culture to have significantly inhibited this male tendency while at the same time providing
cultural supports for pair bonding and companionate marriage. This result has been a relatively egalitarian, high-investment mating system.
The psychoanalytic emphasis on legitimizing sexuality and premarital sex is therefore fundamentally a program that promotes low-investment parenting styles...
- excerpt from The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis Of Jewish Involvement In 20th Century Intellectual & Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald
Another part I also really like about this, is its emphasis on how uncontrolled female sexuality is actually dysgenic in the long run.
There is this whole meme that because since women choose the strongest men, letting women choose is completely eugenic but it clearly isn't when it just leads to low-investment parented children who have the sophistication of gorillas looking for the next stacy to inseminate.
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