First Off-Topic Post - The Raising of "Good" Citzens

The following has nothing to do with Fethez (or does it)?

As both a man, and a new follower I have to walk a fine line.  The following might be illustrative or it might be provocative.  Does the movement of our current social structure(s) described below by Alexis de Tocqueville represent something that we as Fethez should be alarmed about or is it simply a description of the path toward New Society?   I can see bits of both.  Both matriarchy and patriarchy imply a parental relationship between citizens and society.  Is the debate more about loss of freedom, or is it more the case that loss of freedom is inevitable and one must seek to lose it to those more worthy than others.  I struggle with this.  (Please don't be sidetracked by the anachronistic terminology "manhood", "man", "men", etc.  If stated today I am sure other words would have been used.)

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things;it has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits.

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

On this blog we will be discussing (among other things) the ramifications for men of the Fethez philosophy.

We will dispel the mythology surrounding early formulations and talk about how this plan will play out in the future as well as how it is playing out at this very moment.

Make no mistake about it, this future is inevitable if we don't want the world to self-destruct.  Men should embrace this inevitability as the benefits accrue to both men and women of the future.  And that is the key, to build a viable future, rather than the one we face now of ever deepening despair.