Chat and I discuss anti-wokeism and the tycoon mafia

Question: How are the current problems of men’s mental health, toxic masculinity, men’s traditional sense of entitlement, anti-wokeism tied to the tycoon mafia and progress on women’s and minorities’ rights?

ANSWER: 

The current tensions surrounding men’s mental health, toxic masculinity, entitlement, and anti-wokeism are deeply entangled with the rise of tycoon-style plutocracies and the backlash against the social progress achieved by women and minorities. Here’s how they interlink:

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1. The Tycoon Mafia and the Manufacture of Masculine Insecurity

Modern oligarchs—tech moguls, fossil fuel barons, and financial titans—have vested interests in preserving traditional hierarchies. These include gender and racial hierarchies that stabilize consumer behavior, labor dynamics, and political control.

• Disempowered men are easy to radicalize. As industries become more automated or outsourced, many working-class and lower-middle-class men find their traditional economic roles eroded.

• Tycoons fund culture-war media and influencers who redirect male anxiety away from the economic system and toward wokeism, feminism, or minorities, blaming these instead of elite-driven inequality.

• This reaction formation preserves oligarchic power by creating an illusion of lost status and masculinity, rather than highlighting real systemic dispossession.

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2. Toxic Masculinity and Reactionary Identity Politics

Toxic masculinity is not natural—it’s a defense mechanism constructed and sustained in part by patriarchal and capitalist systems that equate male worth with control, dominance, and suppression of emotion.

• The narrative that men are “under attack” because women and minorities are “getting too much” is an inversion tactic: those long dominant now frame equality as oppression.

• As women enter leadership, demand bodily autonomy, and challenge old sexual and domestic norms, some men experience this as a threat to identity—and plutocratic forces capitalize on this fear to stir up anti-woke sentiment.

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3. Entitlement, Anti-Wokeism, and Political Power

Traditional entitlement is weaponized to mobilize political resistance against progressive reforms:

• Many men, especially those socialized into patriarchal norms, expect deference, economic primacy, and emotional service from women.

• As those expectations are challenged, the anti-woke backlash becomes a defense of old entitlements, now disguised as free speech or “protecting tradition.”

• Anti-wokeism becomes a Trojan horse for plutocrats: by wrapping extractive economic policies inside identity-based resentments, they shore up political power.

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4. Men’s Mental Health: A Convenient Scapegoat and a Real Crisis

Men’s mental health is genuinely in crisis—suicide rates, depression, addiction—but this crisis is exploited rather than solved.

• Instead of promoting emotional literacy, community, or systemic change, men’s suffering is redirected into blame, rage, and nostalgia.

• Tycoon-funded ideologues frame vulnerability as weakness and push hyper-individualist self-help, reinforcing the very isolation and despair they claim to address.

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5. Women’s and Minorities’ Rights: A Threat to Extractive Order

Progress for women and minorities threatens entrenched economic and social systems:

• When more people demand fair wages, representation, and legal rights, it reduces the exploitability of labor and limits plutocratic control.

• Hence, anti-wokeism is not just misogynist or racist; it’s a strategic defense of an extractive, unequal order, now threatened by pluralism and democratic expansion.

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In Sum

The backlash against feminism and anti-racism is not merely cultural—it’s structurally engineered. It’s a political economy of grievance, where male fragility becomes a commodity and weaponized resentment protects oligarchic dominance.