Thread by @ibn_alJad

Why does the liberal state promote mixing of men and women?

Because it depends on continuous centralization of power into its institutions.

These institutions (academia, medicine, political, legal, and financial systems) are aggregates of relationships.

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Relationships act like capacitors in their ability to store value. This value may take the form of direct credits and debits, or it may be more abstract forms of social capital. For example, "company culture."

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Relationships are based on trust, and this trust enables value generating interactions.

The US dollar facilitates trade because people trust that it is widely accepted as a form of payment.

Family members support each other because they trust that love and care...

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...will be reciprocal.

Banks extend credit lines to their debtors because they trust that they will repay their debts.

Each individual has a limited capacity (surface area) for the formation of relationships.

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It's easier for the state to extract value from some types of relationship than it is from others.

The centralization of power in the hands of the state (and whoever controls the state) requires growth in the number of relationships from which value can be easily...

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...extracted, and a decline in the type of relationships from which value is more difficult to extract.

It's difficult to extract value from a family relationship based on mutual love, and much easier to extract value from a relationship based on the formal exchange...

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...of currency, like the relationship between a corporate employer and employee, or bank and their customer.

The method of extracting value is also important. Taxation is the most well known method, but devaluing a currency is an effective way to extract value...

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...from all the relationships defined by the exchange of the currency being valued.

The beneficiaries of the value extraction resulting from currency devaluation thus have a very strong incentive to increase participation in the currency networks under their control.

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The stronger the integrity of families, the more transfer of goods and services occurs within the family without need for recourse to external currencies.

Nutrition, education, medical care, entertainment, labor, manufacturing, construction, dispute resolution...

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...therapy, and security are all provided within traditional family structures without becoming enmeshed in fiat currency networks, thus making the value stored in these networks much more difficult to extract and transfer to the state.

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Mixing of men and women directly degrades the integrity of families through the process of attraction.

Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimullah) said: Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood."

Since the human bonding capacity is finite, men and women coming into contact...

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...with each other in school, the workplace, or other social settings leads to the formation of bonds which necessarily reduce the strength of the bonds between men and women within the home.

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This energy is deliberately leveraged to draw people into networks where value can be easily extracted and out of networks where value is more difficult to extract. For example, restaurants will use attractive female servers to entice men to eat out, rather than in.

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Social media networks sometimes send uninvited push notifications with "Friend Suggestions" of the opposite gender to try to get people to interact less with their surroundings, and spend more time on a network where they will consume ads and their data can be harvested.

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On the level of nations, "development" assistance is often made contingent on achieving quotas of female education and labor force participation.

This is not altruism. It's an investment.

As families break apart, individuals have to require more and more on industrial...

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infrastructure for their basic needs, because the level of cooperation necessary for provision of goods and services within the family is no longer possible.

Turning to industrial infrastructure means having to send people to get educated in the West, where they can be...

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...converted to their way of life (deen). If they return to their country, then they will spread liberal ideology, and even if they make an economic contribution, it will probably require buying equipment and materials from the West, because that's the technology...

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...they were trained to use.

And of course, all of this exchange will be mediated by fiat currency, where value can easily be extracted simply by expanding the money supply.

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