Thread by @EMBurlingame

The Matriarchy Problem - a 🧵

1/22 In reflecting on historical patterns of societal stability and gender dynamics, a striking asymmetry emerges. Throughout human history, societies have successfully integrated foreign women, often through conquest or alliance, without unraveling their core structures. Yet, attempts by women to replace native men with outsiders have invariably failed, leading to cultural erosion and collapse. Let us examine this carefully.

2/22 This observation stems from a deeper truth: men, bound by loyalty to land, kin, and culture, serve as the irreplaceable guardians of a society's continuity. Women, while providing essential biological and relational resilience, integrate more fluidly into existing frameworks. History bears this out repeatedly.

3/22 Consider successful integrations of foreign women:

Ottoman Empire: Harems incorporated Circassian and Slavic women, who became mothers of sultans and wielded influence, strengthening the dynasty without destabilizing male power structures.

4/22 - Ancient Persia: Kings integrated foreign concubines into royal lineages, enhancing genetic diversity and alliances while maintaining core patriarchal continuity.

5/22 - Viking societies: Raiders assimilated captured women through marriage or concubinage. Native Scandinavian women aided their integration, preserving kin networks and cultural norms, thus bolstering population numbers amid high male mortality from conflicts.

6/22 These cases illustrate how foreign women are channeled into existing frameworks, often wearing a patriarchal facade, to replenish and sustain the society. They adapt to local customs, contributing to stability rather than disruption.

7/22 In contrast, efforts to supplant native men with outsiders fracture loyalty and ignite rivalry:

Egypt's Mamluks: Slave soldiers from abroad seized control, but their alien origins led to instability and loyalty fractures, ultimately weakening the state.

8/22 - European mercenary armies: Reliance on foreign fighters sparked revolts and internal divisions, as they lacked ties to the land and often pursued their own agendas.

9/22 - Vandals, Goths and Visigoths in Rome: These invaders extracted tribute and imposed Arian Christianity, fracturing civic loyalty rather than blending in, contributing to the empire's decline. To say nothing of going on to sack several times and subsequently rule portions of the former empire.

10/22 - Late Western Roman Empire: Elite pacts with barbarian groups supplanted citizen legions, leading to demographic shifts and the fragmentation of patrilineal cores, culminating in collapse.

11/22 Why this asymmetry? At its root lies the instinctual defense of territory. Native men, tied by blood and fraternal bonds, protect kin and culture against alien hierarchies. Foreign men, however, often seek to displace local norms with their own, breeding conquest dynamics.

12/22 Societies endure female influxes by incorporating them into from behind the scenes matriarch owned and controlled patriarchal frames, where these foreign women serve as biological continuators. While male replacements disrupt this, seeking to not face any later threat from native sons, they seek to replace endogenous patriarchy through killing and breeding native sons out of existence. Requiring cooption before destruction of matrilineal dynasties, their assets, wealth and relationships.

13/22 Delving deeper, consider the interplay of matrilineal and patrilineal elements. Maternal lines offer unbroken continuity—mitochondrial DNA traces millennia of resilience—providing assets, legitimacy, and relationships essential for rule.

14/22 Yet, societal structures cohere around patrilineal identity: clans, laws, and warfare prioritize male transmission. Elite male lines, though vulnerable to violence, endure through matrilineal transmission, as seen in Europe's monarchies (e.g., Capetians ruling father-to-son for 341 years) or China's emperors in which multiple wives and concubines allowed for longer lived primogeniture. With the sons of lesser wives or concubines being raised an educated by the matrilineal dynasty seeking to retain power, even if unable to bear a son. Often with these same matrilineal lines marrying one of their daughters to the Royal son to maintain power.

15/22 Matriarchs establish and maintain patriarchal shields at great cost, protecting descendants and power across centuries of daughters. Though a matriarch construct, patriarchy emerges from male coalitions with the sons of matriarchs from the upper middle, lower upper and upper classes, through patriarchal structures securing territory against rivals.

16/22 Bastards and additional heirs also rise via male recognition and merit within these coalitions, vetted by matriarchs but bound by place in paternal structures. This starting point legitimacy and vetting preserves integrity, which foreign males circumvent, eroding native power structures.

17/22 History warns that societies falter when elites mistake female continuity for systemic control. The matriarchs may be the owners but they can neither manage nor lead men in conflict and war. Nor can they import foreign men who'll honor in blood the same obligations of native sons. Instead, these foreign males always disrupt fraternal cores, as loyalty ties to native sons guarding kin and land are a threat to the future of foreign male's descendants and their wealth and power aspirations.

18/22 In warrior cultures such as the Vikings or Ottomans, high male mortality necessitated foreign women to replenish defenders, males who would rise up within male hierarchies. True matriarchy—female authority in descent and governance—was always the power behind the screen. Deciding which sons rose, which sons ruled. This through providing the daughters as wives who provided the son with the legitimacy required, and while most often also providing the wealth, assets and many generations proven relationships necessary for selected sons to rise within the patriarchy.

19/22 Today, this lesson resonates across the West and English-speaking world. We've forgotten the matriarchs' role in owning assets and legitimacy, their role in choosing which sons are supported sufficiently to rise on their merits within patriarchal structures. Today, influenced heavily by matriarchal fiat—we're being flooded with and our societies are being destroyed by foreign fighting-aged males. Because our healthy matriarchs have forgotten their ancient power and how to wield it. While our unhealthy matriarchs, power hungry and insane, have no comprehension of what they're doing to the futures of their own houses. The latter believing they can replace men with women, masculine males with effeminate males, and cover the gaps with foreign males they bribe with free rapes in vast numbers of our lower status native and sons daughters.

20/22 This mirrors Rome's fall: substituting aliens invites betrayal, hollowing the core. Native daughters can be replaced. Native sons remain, however, irreplaceable; without them, structures crumble, everything decays and fails, in a slow collapse or sudden rape and pillage conflagration.

21/22 Reviving the value of fraternal organizations and institutions, borders, and loyalty to ones people and land and culture, restoring native sons to earned power, counters this replacement. Matriarchal assets, relationships, supports and more critically their role as matchmakers and bond sustainers, not only amplify male authority and defense. They ensure enough native sons to stand and fight against the barbarian hordes always at and within the gate.

History's fallen empires attest: prioritize biology and bonds, native sons, over expedient imports is the only answer to true female empowerment. .

22/22 While women, native and other, are the continuity of us, native sons alone are the keepers. Societies thrive by honoring this balance, lest they echo forgotten realms.

We're at that point where it's only our elite, truly elite women, who'll decide whether we the English-Speaking Peoples survive or not. Us few native sons trained and experienced in war will lead, will fight, will shed great rivers of blood on our own lands to defend what our ancestors have given us.

But the few healthy and powerful matriarchs we've remaining, must not only give us permission. They must set to restoring the natural order of things most of them fail to remember or ever even know.