Vasectomies. Or the voluntary act of making a man sterile. These are, according to Time Magazine, “trending”. You may have seen articles or social media posts about young men, married and unmarried, choosing to get a vasectomy specifically because of the Dobbs decision, overturning Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, and causing abortion to be outright banned in some states and severely restricted in many others.
These young men are acting out of an immense generosity – so they argue.
Now, I’m not saying that vasectomies are never a good idea. I’m not saying that they are theologically taboo. I’m not saying that there’s never a time when I would consider getting one. I can think of several scenarios where I might.
But I’m a 38-year-old married, father with 4 children ex utero and 1 in.
I’m not a 20-something hoping to not get saddled with a bastard after my Tinder meet-up goes so right it goes wrong. And this, as much as anything, reinforces what people with any common sense have known all along. Men were always pro-abortion, not because they cared about women’s choices, or because they were so concerned with medical autonomy, or because they cared so deeply about rape and incest or women’s health – but because it freed them of responsibility.
Abortion was, and is, and will be used as birth-control.
And these man-children who are rushing our to be made eunuchs are so desperate to live in a state of narcissistic perpetual adolescence that they simply refuse to accept basic biological and anthropological realities.
Lemme lay it out real simple. Men want sex. Boys want sex without responsibility. Men want sex with their wives so they can, among other things, have children and raise a family. Why? Because men seek out responsibility because it tends towards their status in the home and in society. Men know that being a father allows them to extend themselves into the future. It allows them to be important builders of society. It wins honor and veneration and influence for them. The responsibility of being a husband, father, householder, patriarch, and village elder were and are all serious responsibilities that should NEVER be entered into lightly. But they do bring honor and glory.
But boys don’t want that. Boys are interested in fame – not honor. And fame and honor are not the same thing. Fame is renown; it’s being known, or at least “heard-of”. Honor is the idea that you as a person have value and weight and meaning. Now, these do overlap, certainly, but they aren’t the same. And one of the MANY failures in our society is the substitution of “fame” for “honor”…Tik Tok, I’m looking at you!
But, as I said, our society and culture are narcissistic. Consider the list of blessings God offers the Israelites, Genesis 49: “…the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.”
There are, of course, many parallel passages that include the language of blessing on wombs, but the fact is that for people throughout human history fruitful wombs and milk-laden bosoms were a tremendous blessing. Why? Because they lived in Premodern societies that were patriarchal (not a bad word in my usage), and that believed that families and nations gained honor and glory through, among other things, a large population of healthy and productive people. These people believed, genuinely and truly, that having lots of healthy babies and building a society was one of the greatest honors a person could be blessed with. The took on the responsibilities of raising families and building civilizations. They thought that it was not only their bounden duty to do these things, but that they would gain honor and prestige if they did.
In the end, the Premodern idea of God’s blessing was one of material gifts that brought increased work and responsibility, but which redounded to the honor and glory of those who bore those responsibilities. That’s why Premodern societies show deference and honor to the aged. That’s why patriarchies are the way they are, because they believe that the ones who bear responsibility also make the decisions.
But our Postmodern Peter Pans want our society to be full to bursting with Lost Boys. Lost Boys whom they, like the literary Pan, will cull if you start growing-up. Time, et al., are valorizing vasectomies because they are celebrating adolescence. They are celebrating a degenerate culture. And I mean degenerate in the literal and figurative senses. Our culture is de-generating we’re undoing ourselves and halting and hindering population growth. We’re degenerating our cultural institutions – we’re undoing them. We’re morally degenerate, as well, but that’s not what I want to focus on.
I want to focus on this idea that so many men have, that by never fathering children their lives will be better. Now. If they were choosing a life of celibate service to Christ, then, yes, their lives would be better. But they aren’t. They are getting snipped so they don’t get subpoenaed. They don’t want to have to care for a child, because that baby might force them to give up on their dreams of watching youtube videos, and swiping left and right, and living in the narcissistic fantasy that dogs are children or whatever other garbage that tickles their fancy.
A kid would just get in their way.
Yes.
Yes he would.
Because that’s what responsibilities do – they are obstacular by nature. Hence the word. You have to respond to them.
Why is this being promoted by so many forces? Why are there so many people in our society who want boys to remain boys and men to revert back to adolescence? Well, there’s a whole host of motivations. The two I think are most significant are the ones I’ll deal with.
First, perpetual boyhood is good for corporate bottom-lines, at least in the short-term. You may or may not have heard of this thing, but in most of human history, most of the work that enriched the superrich and powerful was not done by said superrich and powerful but by people who lived in very limited and circumscribed circumstances. They focused on work and nothing else. Work was the main thing that consumed their time: not family, not children, not politics, not patriotism, or national defense, not self-education, not social concerns. These people were fed and housed as little as possible to ensure their compliance and docility, while exploiting the maximum value from their existence. Punishments were extreme and rapid to keep everyone in line.
The power of large networks of human drones was able to make a LOT.
We called it slavery.
Now, slavery in America is illegal. So corporations are attempting to get the next-best thing. Hives and colonies of workers who spend 60-80 hours serving the corporation and the rest of their time narcotized on the couch. They are consumers. They aren’t builders. These people live in tiny expensive apartments, that are more and more going to be part of the “company store” model. They don’t farm, they don’t garden, they don’t even cook their own meals – they just consume, taking all their wealth and transferring it back to the superrich. Their personalities are outsourced to their “devices”; they are undereducated and over credentialled, brim-full of unearned confidence without real competence, having the brazen arrogance that only the truly stupid have. They are so well heeled that they will believe anything Body-Positive Sibling (the non-fat-shaming, gender affirming version of “Big Brother”) tells them, including but not limited to: boys can be girls; men can have babies; killing a child in utero is not murder; math can be racist; no one knows what a woman is; truth doesn’t exist; 2+2 can equal something other than 4.
The Lost Boys (I’ll talk about the Lost Girls in another article) will be the perfect tool for the elite to use for re-instituting serfdom on the Western world. Even if Schwab and the fellows of the WEF don’t have their wildest fever-dreams fulfilled, they still think that soon and very soon they’ll having us all making mules of ourselves and eating bugburgers because…the environment.
I could go on, but I think you get the point.
The second reason why so many forces are coalescing to perpetuate pubescence is because our society is becoming demonic. Demons are real and they have real influence. And their power stands in inverse proportion to our love and devotion to God and godliness. And as our culture, more and more, rejects Christ and His way, more and more, demons will have increased influence and power over people. And while I believe that Satan is clever and cunning and his ultimate desire is not merely to steal and kill and destroy, but to be worshiped, he also does love to steal and kill and destroy because convincing people to destroy themselves is Satan’s best way at successfully hurting God. And so people shatter their lives with scalpel and smartphones and Satan smiles with glee, knowing that he’s causing God to sorrow over His fallen creations. So demons destroy and those who have handed themselves over to demonic power through their repeated rejection of Christ will carry out their father’s desires.
America is a modern-day Neverland. And our Lost Boys truly are lost. They are throwing away the opportunity for a meaningful life of purpose and flourishing…for what?
Answering the “for what” is complex because human motivations can be complex: social acceptance; immediate gratification; freedom from responsibility; freedom from emotional risk; freedom from monogamous expectations…et cetera. But ultimately they are throwing away manhood because they have decided it’s not something worth having. The misanthropic, atomistic-individualist, consumerist, hedonist culture is shaping boys, not men. Men are a deadly threat to the new serfdom. But boys. Boys will do. So the cogs of social engineering continue to turn and churn out boys: boys that will serve the new lords – boys that will serve the new lords and think that they’re being liberated.