Tuesday, May 20, 2014

"Latvia: Land of Single Mothers and Suicidal Men"

This article is from The Spearhead, written by W.F. Price and posted on October 13, 2010.

The suicide rate in the U.S. is higher for men than women, and in Latvia it's higher than the U.S. and has gone even higher in the last several years. This article discusses why this is happening.

We've got it backwards in this country: educated women are chosen over educated men. Uneducated women don't count and middle-class women (and above) throw them under the bus.

Here, we get Men Going Their Own Way (I suspect some will become what the Japanese call Hikikomori - withdrawals and shut-ins) and Pick-Up Artists in response to men being dis-empowered and dispossessed, without importance, meaning and community in their lives. Without what Freud referred to as Work and Love. In Latvia they choose to check out because of this? And here? Only time will well. Give it another generation - a violent, nihilistic, short-lived, crime-ridden generation. Just look at black culture, always predictive of what happens later to whites.


"A small Baltic country that has only been independent for 20 years, Latvia features one of the highest male suicide rates in the world, and quite possibly the highest rate of single motherhood on the planet Earth (it is highest in the EU in that regard). Prior to independence, Latvia was ruled by the USSR, the Bolshevik monstrosity that ran the country into the ground economically through the enforced equality policies of Communism. As with other formerly Communist countries, it seems that women came out in much better shape than men.

"However, an article in the BBC laments the poor women, who outnumber men in universities by 50% and live on average 11 years longer than their brothers. The problem, it seems, is that they just can’t find a good enough man. Well educated, stylish, and often attractive, they must resort to substandard men who, according to the article, sit around watching TV and getting drunk.

"One might think that someone would ask what could be done to help the beleaguered Latvian men, but the main concern seems to be that the men simply aren’t good enough. The gist of the article is that every overeducated single mother working some nonproductive service job for a Western NGO should have a man who, at the very least, can resist the temptation to get blind drunk and blow his brains out.

"According to a popular Sex writer who goes by 'Lilit':

"'The smartest girls are alone. The really beautiful girls are alone – if they are smart,' Dace says.

"'They want to find partners who are equal to them. But a man, having all this choice, doesn’t need to be very perfect.'

"So the suggestion is that the guys have it good. But if that’s the case, why are they killing themselves in such prodigious numbers and dying so young?

"A psychiatrist who treats men provides part of the answer:

"Psychoanalyst Ansis Stabingis, who treats men for depression and suicidal tendencies, says Latvia’s transition to capitalism 20 years ago suddenly put massive pressures on men to succeed financially.

"The economic crisis, which has pushed unemployment up to 20%, has made those ambitions even more unattainable.

"As a result, according to the Latvian government, when the crisis hit in 2008, suicide levels which were already one of the highest in the EU, went up by 16%.

"'There are demands about how [men] should live. And if they cannot meet those standards, they fall into depression,' Ansis says.

"So, it appears that Latvia is another example of a country where expectations do not match up with reality. I also suspect that there’s a great deal of hidden hypergamy, and that Latvian women are often involved in de facto polygamous relationships, leaving a great many men out of the picture. Finally, Latvia is amongst the least religious countries in Europe, so there is little – if any – pressure on women to behave as traditional wives would (as in Poland).

"Unfortunately, the U.S. and other Anglo countries may be headed in the same direction. Perhaps, in another generation we, too, can look forward to living in a country full of single mothers and depressed, suicidal and short-lived men."

7 comments:

brodie said...

My prediction for the future of young men in the west:

- suicides

- shut-ins

- shooting sprees

- homelessness

- incarceration where they'll be used for dirt cheap prison labor

- cannon fodder

All occurring under the fuzzy haze of beefed up mind numbing entertainment mediums, a.k.a bread and circus, because we wouldn't want people to notice how shitty things are and band together.

Glen Filthie said...

Nah. It will never happen. You dig in, you plant your feet and you put up your dukes.

My family is liberal to a tee. My daughter is a militant lesbian. My in-laws are socialists. I am the only hard conservative in my family and when my militant lesbian daughter came out of the closet - they tried to push me into it. I flipped them off and stood by it. At first they were shocked by the suddenness and finality of it because they had pushed me around for years and I had gone along to get along. But my daughter was the last straw.

They have since all apologized and tried to patch things up - but some things break and won't go back together again. I may yet lose my wife too...and so be it. I am a man and I won't be turned into a liberal gelding. I have had enough of domineering liberal women and their idiotic problems to last a life time.

AAB said...

That BBC perspective is interesting because it shows that whatever the situation is like women will always percieve themselves as 'victims' in some sense. I think it's somehow related to women being more receptive, in contrast to men who are active. Ya' know, men as sadists (active, subjecters) and women as masochists (passive, the subjected) as Otto Weininger would say.


http://www.huzheng.org/geniusreligion/lastthgs.pdf
[Page 97 onwards]

Unknown said...

That's true - men the active, women the passive, the receptive. Men reason, women emotion. I've thought that's one of the reasons women blame their problems on men.

Robert What? said...

I imagine that the long socialist infrastructure killed off any entrepreneurial spirit the men might have had long ago - much like it is now doing in the US. When men are taught that they have to wait around for what is given to them - by the State or a corporation - I can see that suicidal despair would be an obvious outcome. Whereas waiting for something to be given to them is the natural state of most women. Is my observation valid or am I being too simplistic?

Unknown said...

That's how I see it, too. Men the active, women the passive and receptive.

Anonymous said...

This made me think of an unusual problem in China. The culture says that men should marry women of a lower status or at least lower standing within their own status. The result is that there are a lot of brilliant and accomplished women who can't find husbands. These women excelled in everything they did and many of them are attractive and nice, but they have very few marriage offers.