 Daniel Amneus Warned Against A Fatherless, Feminist Dystopia in Back to Patriarchy!
“Most glue sniffers and streakers come from broken homes headed by women." - Daniel Amneus, Back to Patriarchy
In his 1999 book The Decline of Males, Lionel Tiger coined a word for the key problem that Back To Patriarchy! attempted to address. The word is bureaugamy. Tiger defined bureaugamy as “a family pattern involving a mother, a child and a bureaucrat.” While Tiger's approach is far less ferocious, he provides a continuation of many of the arguments Amneus made twenty years earlier. Back to Patriarchy! asserts that governmental policies and social trends are trivializing fatherhood in order to meet the lopsided version of “equality” demanded by feminists. Some key problems he identifies are welfare programs that support single mothers, demands for publicly funded or subsidized child care programs, outrageous alimony awards, and a tendency to award custody to mothers—while fathers are required to pay child support and have little or no say as to how their money is spent or how the children they pay for are raised. In the final chapter, he summarizes the problem: |
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Fecundity Demands a Cruel Balance In Anthony Burgess’ The Wanting SeedOriginally Published in The Black Flame Issue #16 - http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/TBF.html 
“…one could not perhaps, after all, and it was a pity, make art out of that gentle old liberalism. The new books were full of sex and death, perhaps the only materials for a writer.”
Late in The Wanting Seed, Burgess gives this quick nod to his careful readers—noting that great art draws from the blood and guts of life itself, that nothing of undeniable potency merely elaborates on the best intentions of the rational mind. Not simply a subtle aside on craft, this bifurcated human obsession with sex and death permeates and inspires the entire novel. The majority will accept rational notions in the context of moral codes or popular wisdom, but cold logic will never excite them or inspire the blinding, addictive passion roused by the keystone carnal combination of sex and violence. It’s a lesson that’s always poignant, and Burgess exploits this reality while methodically instructing the intellectual outsiders embodied by his protagonist, Tristram. |
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