U Not Gonna Like This

This is a piece I've been meaning to post for over two years now but finally have gotten the
opportunity thanks to yet another post by Mizz Kay "Men are Children" Hymowitz. (link)

(Note: Loud mouth, opinionated, obnoxious, knuckle-headed western women, are the gift that just keeps giving.)

A few notes: The original site this was posted to has long since disappeared.
Second there is a part of this post that is missing. I'm not sure what went wrong but there's maybe 1 or 2 paragraphs that aren't there.. However, that should not stop you guys from getting the point of the post.


With out further delay here's:

Getting A Life

Ron Marr

Commentary

1/15/2004 9:19:00 AM Updated: 1/15/2004 9:19:37 AM

http//www.libertypetitions.com/petitions.php?action=
full_story&news_id=116651 (dead link)

Society's definition of the "mature" adult has changed much over the years. In the 1950's, perhaps due to the optimism for a bright future following the end of World War II, the benchmarks were a marriage, a steady job at the auto plant, a kid or two and the house with a white picket fence. And most of these things were expected by age 25.

During that period, and in the decades before, Americans were influenced by the peer pressure of their immediate community. You behaved in a certain way, followed certain rules, lived in such a manner as to fit in with your neighbors. You trusted the powers that be, knowing that if you found a job, you could likely stay there for life.

Fast forward to 2004. A recent University of Pennsylvania study claims that today's twenty-somethings are hesitant to conform to that traditional adult world. According to the study, "the ability to support and thus form a family has declined. In the industrialized economy of the first half of the 20th century, most men were able to attain such independence by age 20."

Not so any longer. The research indicates that, in our modern world, 25-year-old men in all age groups are likely to remain single and childless. The same holds true for women. Having children has been postponed, as has the thought of putting down roots in a community.

The study states that the young avoid standard societal paths - the house, job, wife and kid thing -- not because of a Peter Pan complex, but rather because of an unstable job market, and the intense competition for what decent jobs are available.

This may be a first -- most such studies strike me as nonsense -- but I find myself agreeing with this one.

Nowadays, pay is low. Most firms instantly replace anyone who fails to behave like an unquestioning drone. They downsize (aka: fire, terminate, can) with abandon. Many firms force employees to perform extra hours without pay, or to take on the tasks of two or three people, also without extra compensation. Not always, but often, America's employers treat workers as disposable soft drink cans...they buy them, drain them, toss them away, and grab another from the shelf.

You can't trust that a promised pension will be there. Hell, you can't trust that you won't be "downsized" two weeks before you are ready to start collecting that pension. You don't buy a house because you'll probably have to move - several times. You don't have kids because you can't afford them. You may have to go back to school just to compete. You never know when you will be on the street, based totally on the whims of corporate entities who squeeze the stone for a bit more profit.

The present corporate mindset leads to much more than personal frustration on the part of those who man the trenches. New ideas or novel methodologies are presented infrequently, as employees do not wish to risk their job by drawing attention.

Middle managers act as bean counters...keeping their heads low as well. Upper management simply looks at ways to cut expenses, usually by cutting the workforce. Those who get ahead are more often blessed with dandy contacts and the ability to brown-nose than they are with intelligence, talent, motivation or insight.


Which bring us back to the definition of "maturity." I hear comments th


(Note: This is the part of the post that is missing. Again I don't know exactly how much is missing but I do apologize for that, now back to the post...)


Hmmmm....lets think about this. A young man or woman doesn't get married or have kids because, in our employment climate, they know they can't manage to raise and support them properly. They instead allocate time and funds to more years of education, for a failure to do so will leave them with few options save learning to enunciate the phrase "want fries with that?"

They move from job to job, seeking a higher wage, not out of mercenary rationale but rather because they have seen first hand that loyalty to employers means less than nothing. Granted, they do purchase more toys than previous generations and spend more on entertainment.

However, I suspect that's because they know a new car or plasma TV is not going to suffer a negative impact when they suddenly have to move from LA to Omaha. Such things will not scream of hunger in the night should they suddenly find themselves without income, scanning the want ads.

Frankly, this is a very sensible route, realizing the facts for what they are proceeding accordingly. It may not be pretty, but I would call it pretty mature.

I'd call the present corporate theology that causes such a scenario something else entirely, but it's not something you can print.

(Ron Marr is the founder of The Trout Wrapper, the official magazine of Montana's Tobacco Root Mountains. The publication believes in "big guns, big dogs and big bar tabs." Founded in 1994, The Trout Wrapper says it is "dedicated to hunting down and publicly tormenting the humor impaired," and it espouses the "wholesale abuse of all things politically correct.")

Copyright 2004, Ron Marr

Other related post:

A response at Whiskey's Place to Mizz Hymowitz new article "Where Have All The Good Men Gone. (link)

Single Men in Never-Neverland? (link) (Dr. Helen)

Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech sez: "Western Civilization Left Men, Not The
Other Way Around" (link)

"Manning Up or Wimping Out" (link) (Dr. Helen)

Update: (8-6-2011) It seems as though this blog is still being found by people who search for certain term or words. I believe that someone in the "higher ups" in one of the major political parties has found this blog because it seems as though "The Right" believes that I might just be "one of them" because of a blog that I happened to link to that has a certain WORD in it's web address (link).





They even went as far as to post a pro-female video showing them how much they care about the plight of out of work Ameri-skanks (link).



To the Elites of "The Right": If you're reading this I've got a short message for you. I AM NOT a member of "The Right" (link) for the record I am registered as an INDEPENDENT.

The only reason why I even posted that link is because I have very few visitors and only get spikes in visitors when one of your female supremacist (link) gets pi$$ed off and passes the link around to her friends on the social networking sites.

And because there are SOME bloggers from "The Right" that actually have the testicular fortitude to question the fem-o-nasty movement. (Which is much more than I can say for you in the Elitist circles of "The Right")

So THERE.

You can STOP the damned hand-wringing and go back to shamelessly begging for the Vagina Vote(TM). (link)


To my regular visitors if you would like to see the site in question please CLICK HERE.