So here is the answer to why young men from well-to-do families of no great religiosity who are living in Europe or Canada run away to ISIS. They intuit that the labor market is requiring that they feminize themselves in order to be even marginally employable. This disturbs their capacity to comprehend the world because the most basic hierarchy they know is undermined. They run away to the place where this trauma can be exercised by restoring the male – female hierarchy in an aggressive way.
One response to “Transformation of Labor, Part II”
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I think this is a contributing factor but gives the young men too much credit.
It is true that the more nation-statier a European country is and the better run, the more likely there is to be more gender equality and integration. This is totally disorienting and repugnant to many muslim immigrants (male and female alike).
There’s also a lot of evidence that in Europe, as a general rule, most muslims, even non-religious ones, don’t want to work for non-muslims (partly due to the metaphysical superiority of muslims as outlined in the koran). When they do work for non-muslims there’s a tendency to try to introduce and enforce special rules for muslims (which leads to non-muslims not wanting to hire muslims).
Also, the mad hyper-individualism of fluidity just isn’t necessarily all that fulfilling for many people. Neurotypical people tend to have a desire/need for collective rituals and fluidity doesn’t have much space for those (except as individualized rituals of consumerism like pokemon go).
I agree with this
http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror
especially as summarized here: http://ranprieur.com/archives/049.html
“Their real motives are social: to belong to a group that tells a good story about itself and performs actions that feel powerful and meaningful.”
Young muslim men who are starting to realize that they’ve wasted their lives by blowing off their education are suddenly offered meaning in an ongoing collectivized ritual. Fluidity can’t compete with that.
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