The Longhouse—Conquest of the Feminine

The expression “it takes a village” was popularized by Hillary Clinton, who published a book by that title in 1995. She used it as a euphemism for ceding parenting responsibility and authority to the state. Government knows best, not mothers and fathers. We all know where that got us.

This elevation of state authority over parental authority diminished the power of the father in the family and paved the way for a return to the longhouse structure of many primitive cultures found that pursued a sedentary and agrarian way of life. In these societies, a communal hall—the longhouse—brought its members together to teach and enforce social norms, curtailing the autonomy and independence of the individual.

The longhouse de-emphasized traditional masculine expression of aggression, conflict, and violence, along with the vitality that masculinity brings to social groups. It fostered, rather, feminine needs and feminine methods for controlling, directing, and modeling behavior: inclusion, receptivity, and equality. America has become one big longhouse, and the transformation has been a disaster.