Over at The Spearhead, the boys are thinking about tomorrow – to be more specific, about the year 2020, the date at which an MRA calling himself The Fifth Horseman predicted in an eccentric online manifesto that a convergence of forces would lead to the popping of what he calls “the misandry bubble,” and that the ensuing gender apocalypse would put the uppity ladies of the world firmly in their place.
In a post, Spearhead head boy W.F. Price notes that “cliodynamicist” Peter Turchin is also predicting big changes around 2020 (though unlike The Fifth Horseman, Turchin doesn’t base any part of his theory on the development of super-hot Virtual Reality sexbots). This naturally inspires the assembled Spearheaders to start scratching their own crystal balls, enthralled with visions of a future Armageddon that forces the ladies to come crying to them for forgiveness.
Jay R, a sort of apocalyptic deficit hawk, blames the ladies for the US government’s big debts:
Government has acted as though economic principles don’t apply to it — borrowing can increase forever without significant consequence. Riiiiiiiiight. And let’s not forget that the bulk of government debt and spending is a transfer of resources from men to women. It is primarily women who owe this debt. Will they be able to repay it? Only with massive devaluation of the currency.
And then he imagines women owing men a whole other sort of debt, which he has simply made up, and predicts that this debt will come crashing down on women’s heads – a notion that seems to give him a bit of a rage-boner:
Similarly, women’s social debt to men — the incalculable damages resulting from women’s wholesale breach of the social contract — is unsustainable, and when the crash comes, women’s tears will be bitter indeed. This is justice — but still regretable, if one thinks how things might have turned out if radical feminist hatred had not comandeered the process of compromise between the sexes.
True equality for women is on the horizon. When they finally are accorded the same treatment as men, and realize how far they have fallen — how much they themselves have been devalued as a sex — they will think themselves in hell.
Rod Van Mechelen of Backlash.com has an even more elaborate apocalyptic fantasy – although he’s a bit less certain about its outcome being a good one for men. In this portion of a long comment, he speculates about a couple of possible (by which I mean completely and ludicrously impossible) outcomes:
Demographically, the relative value of fecund females is set to go hyperbolic by 2020, when insane policies in Asia and the Subcontinent will manifest a shortage of women of child bearing age. In the past, when war has created a shortage of men, peace and prosperity were the result. What will happen when we have a shortage of women? Will we see a rise in female power, with matriarchies like the ones in Robert Heinlein’s classic, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Will we see rampant homosexuality and mandatory sexual servitude for women, as in J. Neil Schulmann’s The Rainbow Cadenza?
Uh, I think I’m going to go with “none of the above.”
Prolific MRA commenter and regular A Voice for Men contributor Keyster predicts (surprise, surprise!) economic collapse and riots in the streets.
[W]hen the money runs out and California becomes Greece, the federal government will step in with “emergency funds” and National Guard troops…a federal government that continues to borrow abroad to sustain itself. Do you see the snake eating it’s tail yet? And we have to wonder why there’s a nationwide shortage of guns and ammo?
Naturally, the rioters will be black.
If you thought inner city blacks were angry over Rodney King, just wait until they become desperate for food. Asian shop owners will be over-run in days, further distribution to these war zones will cease – and they’ll branch out to the tony suburbs seeking sustinence and easy prey. Drones will be called in to contain the rovering marauding gangs.
Keyster predicts that all these scary riots will lead the (presumably non-black, non-rioting) ladies to start batting their eyelashes at big strong (presumably non-black, non-rioting) men.
Men will notice a decided shift in women’s once hostile attitude towards them. “Can I get you a sandwhich honey?” “Are you thirsty?” “Need a back rub?”
They will be actively engaged in seeking out male protectors and openly using sexual allure to attract them as mates. Men are so much better at defending themselves from bad guys, so you’ll want one with you if you’re a woman.
Greyghost, meanwhile, imagines that the anti-uppity-female effects of an economic collapse will be enhanced by … the development of a male birth control pill. (You may need to read this one slowly; Mr. Ghost is not what you’d call a great communicator.)
[L]et’s say a male birth control pills comes out before cold fusion or some other extender of government wealth. What happens when even a coward to stand up to the femine imperative knows this misandry is unsustainable and figures out a male pill will maybe cause a correction while he still can be a coward. A woman without child is a worker drone and not eligible for entitlements.The US may look like China with low wage factories full of female workers with male mechanics/technicians keeping the machines running.
What is really funny and would be interesting to check out. Knowing women from reading and discussing female nature with you all here in the manosphere in general with the male pill being a pleasant wife might be the herd status symbol of the future. Take civil unrest combined with poor economic opportunities with men having the finale say so on who gets pregnant or not and we have a new status symbol.
Like Keyster, who once boasted on The Spearhead of dating a 14-year-old when he was 25, Greyghost seems enamored of relatively weak and dependent gals:
Next to a dog female fear is a mans best friend. Fearful insecure women tend to be more polite and pleasant to those around her.
Dream on, guys. Dream on.
Completely OT but isn’t this cute?
http://files.chesscomfiles.com/images_users/tiny_mce/m8ed/owlpussycat.jpg
joanimal wins an internet! With added coffee!
Desalination works fine in, say, Saudi, where they have a nice long coastline and shitloads of money to spend, but I’m not sure how well it would work in other areas.
That’s adorable!
And add an Internet from me to the bundle of Internets for joanimal
cassandra: I worry about some regions running out of potable water, too. It’s possible to desalinate sea water, but first of all that’s expensive, and secondly we may reach a point where the oceans are too polluted for that to be a viable option any more.
It’s issues of scale.
Pollution isn’t an issue for distillation desalinating. Small scale it can be done with nothing but sunlight, but that requires sunlight, and is a short term issue (because the salt has to be removed/disposed of).
But for more than a few people it breaks down. It’s also hard to lay in a supply, so steady sunlight matters.
If you have fire, then you can do a slightly different sort of desalinating, but again salt build-up is an issue.
On the flip-side, salt is a valuable resource (or was; would be again in that sort of world).
re alpacas: I am spinning some alpaca silk right now. The fiber feels really nice moving into the wheel. We’ll see how the cables come out.
Yes, but while removing salt from water is easy, removing salt from other salts of similar solubility can be really obnoxious.
But won’t the alpha males enslave the MRAs and take all the nubile women for themselves?
I’m not sure how they do the desalination in Saudi, but the thing is, regardless of what works there it may not work other places, because they’re in kind of a unique position in terms of what ridiculous amounts of money they have to throw at problems.
Oh, other people have already said that.
@ArchaoHolmes – it bears repeating! 😀
Whoops, lost an e from ArchaeoHolmes.
I’ve got the perfect place…a friend of mine is on 130acres, they have solar power, water tanks and are off the grid. They have veggie gardens, orchards, sheep and chooks. We get all year sun plus heavy rain fall and temperatures hover about 27°. I reckon we could all fit on there.
I’ll get right onto sorting it out with them.
Yay! We’d better hire some heavy digging equipment right away. It’ll need to be a big bunker to fit all the manboobzers and associated family/friends/critters!
Come to think of it, that sounds like my sister’s description of Gympie. She moved there the day the floods arrived. :/
130 acres…we can all fit on I’m sure.And they have a dam. They are,also seriously cool people.
We are near the NSW/QLD border, Gympie isn’t that far away (in Aussie terms)
We’ve had 4 floods in 6years. We got an evacuation order in the last flood one month ago and we’re watching the next low approach us,with some trepidation. If it rains hard again, we’ll flood again and this time, with the ground being so waterlogged, it could be worse and the levee could fail.
Can I join the Manboobz zombie apocalypse bunker?
I know how to make jam and bottled fruit, I also do a good line in home made soups and I bake.
I also own one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokken and am trained to use it (yay for kendo).
If the link doesn’t work, it’s basically a katana made of solid wood that can break bones, crush skulls and rupture organs.
Awww yiss.
Historophilia – of course! We’re welcoming all Manboobzers!
(Hadn’t someone better tell Dave? It’d be kind of embarassing if he was the only one who didn’t arrive.)
BigMomma – shit, that’s scary. Four in six years … I’m just thinking what the two really big floods did in ’11 and this year. Some of those towns, I wonder if they’re going to recover this time. I hope the low doesn’t hit you, or at least doesn’t bring too much rain.
To date,the levee has held. The town usually gets cut off for about a week and there’s a bit of a party vibe, to be truthful. The last flood came close to going over so we are crossing our fingers that the low will be easy on us.
Some of the footage from the QLD floods was heartbreaking. Like you,I worry about the small towns surviving.
I was also traumatized by the VIC bushfires,truly traumatic…as an outsider.
The only practical survival skills I have are “knowing which bills need to be paid when” and “feeding myself for less than £5/week”.
*sulks*
*waits to be eaten by zombies*
“The town usually gets cut off for about a week and there’s a bit of a party vibe, to be truthful.”
Oh you decadent New South Welsh! 😀
It was a hard week for many here, with the fires – it’s the thirtieth anniversary of the Ash Wednesday fires. Not nearly as many people killed as on Black Saturday, but it’s stayed in the collective memory.
I’m not sure which scares me more, actually. Bushfire as a way to die, for sure, but those who’ve survived both say floods are more devastating.
So,Natfantastic, you have good planning and organizing skills?
But you have entertainment skills and wit, thenat! We will need those!
::tries hard to think of own survival skills::
::crickets::
Anyway we’ll all be needed to look after the various pets. And Argenti can train us in aquaculture.