Comments on: What Happened to All the Nice Guys? https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/09/what-happened-to-all-the-nice-guys/ Founded by H.L. Mencken in 1924 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Erasmus https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/09/what-happened-to-all-the-nice-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:52:05 +0000 https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=907#comment-426 I’d blame genetics first, and social practices, including messaging from media, only second.

Women are wired to seek better resource caches and virile men, just as men are wired to seek fecund women and resources. These drives play out differently in different societies and countervailing individuals (yes, sometimes the nice gal and nice guy do find each other.) Nice guys have been ignored throughout recorded history – and probably were ignored among our monkey progenitors.

I admit it doesn’t help for the many citizens of many modern societies (yes, all the ones that can trace their current social practices back to Marx and his ilk) to exist in such an extended liminal adolescent state. This is, I think, also responsible for a deranged ability of individuals to balancing their liberties with their responsibilities, and to consequently cheapen their freedoms.

]]> By: Terence V. Smith https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/09/what-happened-to-all-the-nice-guys/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:26:38 +0000 https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=907#comment-170 I blame the media for this. They have done to us exactly what the Nazca Indians did to themselves: That tribe’s artworks show them engaged in an absolute frenzy of sexual acts, as if their society was one huge orgy. But there were some VERY significant omissions. There was no depiction of tenderness or love or devotion. And the sex acts shown were almost always the kind that DO NOT lead to children.

The Nazca Indians died out and left no one — not a single survivor — alive today.

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