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October 12, 2022
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October 12, 2022I keep seeing videos of groups of people just breaking into an all-out brawl, right in public. Like on the sidewalk, in a high school hallway, in a restaurant, etc. Seriously, when did that become just a totally normal thing? I feel like it used to be that it wasn’t socially acceptable, so people would try to avoid a public brawl because of the social (or criminal) repercussions. But now, it’s like people don’t even care and they just start fighting.
I’m sure the Summer of Riots didn’t help things, showing the whole country that violence and rioting were totally acceptable and likely wouldn’t end in criminal prosecution. But have people just gotten that comfortable with public violence that this is the new normal in some places?
Here are just two recent ones.
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Sigh I’m sure I’ll be called every name in the book. But do you notice who was doing the fighting? There was a lot less of this when they were “allowed” to have families with a father and a mother who were married to each other and needed only a temporary hand UP. (Not hand OUT.)
You thunder stealer, you! But seriously though, Larry Elder often says that fatherlessness is at the root of lawlessness among black youth. Do you remember the uproar about the pastor who spoke at Aretha Franklin’s funeral about the importance of fathers being involved in their children’s lives? From the way some reacted, you’d think blasphemy was committed. Btw, said pastor was chosen by Aretha HERSELF. As a black American, that disturbs me. When I see these individuals showing their @$$es, I say, “Kamela, you’d better come get your sistas and brothas!”. I’m sure that Ksenya agrees with me.
True. It appears God was right after all – Fathers are important to have around young boys. Nothing stupider than a teenage boy.
In the Absence of Fathers: A Story of Elephants and Men . . .
The result was shocking. The culprits turned out to be marauding bands of aggressive juvenile male elephants, the very elephants relocated from Kruger National Park a few years earlier. The young males were caught on camera chasing down the rhinos, knocking them over, and stomping and goring them to death with their tusks. The juvenile elephants were terrorizing other animals in the park as well. Such behavior was very rare among elephants. Something had gone terribly wrong.
Some of the park rangers settled on a theory. What had been missing from the relocated herd was the presence of the large dominant bulls that remained at Kruger. In natural circumstances, the adult bulls provide modeling behaviors for younger elephants, keeping them in line.
Juvenile male elephants, Dr. Horn pointed out, experience “musth,” a state of frenzy triggered by mating season and increases in testosterone. Normally, dominant bulls manage and contain the testosterone-induced frenzy in the younger males. Left without elephant modeling, the rangers theorized, the younger elephants were missing the civilizing influence of their elders as nature and pachyderm protocol intended.
To test the theory, the rangers constructed a bigger and stronger harness, then flew in some of the older bulls left behind at Kruger. Within weeks, the bizarre and violent behavior of the juvenile elephants stopped completely. The older bulls let them know that their behaviors were not elephant-like at all. In a short time, the younger elephants were following the older and more dominant bulls around while learning how to be elephants.
MARAUDING IN CENTRAL PARK
In his terrific article, “Of Elephants and Men,” Dr. Wade Horn went on to write of a story very similar to that of the elephants, though it happened not in Africa, but in New York’s Central Park. The story involved young men, not young elephants, but the details were eerily close. Groups of young men were caught on camera sexually harassing and robbing women and victimizing others in the park. Their herd mentality created a sort of frenzy that was both brazen and contagious. In broad daylight, they seemed to compete with each other, even laughing and mugging for the cameras as they assaulted and robbed passersby. It was not, in any sense of the term, the behavior of civilized men.
Appalled by these assaults, citizens demanded a stronger and more aggressive police presence. Dr. Horn asked a more probing question. “Where have all the fathers gone?” Simply increasing the presence of police everywhere a crime is possible might assuage some political pressure, but it does little to identify and solve the real social problem behind the brazen Central Park assaults. It was the very same problem that victimized rhinos in that park in Africa. The majority of the young men hanging around committing those crimes in Central Park grew up in homes without fathers present.
That is not an excuse. It is a social problem that has a direct correlation with their criminal behavior. They were not acting like men because their only experience of modeling the behaviors of men had been taught by their peers and not by their fathers. Those who did have fathers had absent fathers, clearly preoccupied with something other than being role models for their sons. Wherever those fathers were, they were not in Central Park.
Dr. Horn pointed out that simply replacing fathers with more police isn’t a solution. No matter how many police are hired and trained, they will quickly be outnumbered if they assume the task of both investigating crime and preventing crime. They will quickly be outnumbered because presently in our culture, two out of every five young men are raised in fatherless homes, and that disparity is growing faster as traditional family systems break down throughout the Western world.
Real men protect the vulnerable, not assault them. Growing up having learned that most basic tenet of manhood is the job of fathers, not the police. Dr. Horn cited a quote from a young Daniel Patrick Moynihan written some forty years ago:
“From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern Seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations for the future – that community asks for and gets chaos.” . . .
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/absence-fathers-story-elephants-men-gordon-j-macrae/
Here is a quote summarizing the whole article I quoted below:
“From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern Seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations for the future – that community asks for and gets chaos.” . . .
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/absence-fathers-story-elephants-men-gordon-j-macrae/
Funny, they don’t look Irish.