The emasculation of modern men, whether really occurring or not now, is rooted in Christianity, not democracy, socialism, or wokeism.
Democracy, socialism, and wokeism are all products of the influence of Christianity on Western civilization. That is one of the most important ideas Nietzsche wrote about.
Nietzsche was among the first to point out that Christianity was born out of the ‘resentment’ the enslaved ancient Hebrews had for their masters. Prior to this, the “manly” virtues were accepted by most to be the ideal and those few at the top were envied by the many beneath them. Up until the development of a Christian philosophy, taking the place of those on top was a straight-forward goal for a healthy man.
But being unable to overcome them, they invented a sophisticated sort of reverse-psychological approach to overcoming them. This approach goes a bit like this: I am not as smart, powerful, or intelligent as my master’s and I cannot overcome them and take their place though, naturally, I wish to. So, instead of being up front about my desires, I will claim that all the virtues I cannot exemplify are ‘sins’.
The power and control great men possess is all just a weakness while being humble, inconsequential, and passive, is the virtue that our King of Kings expects of us if we are to be rewarded, not in this life, but, of course, in the next life. Nothing in THIS world is of any real consequence, only getting to an eternity in heaven counts.
So, you can see this philosophy which became Christianity, is a kind of backhanded, passive-aggressive, and, most importantly, sophisticated, overly complicated, method of overcoming those few who are better, stronger, more powerful than us. It is because others have more than us, are stronger than us, have my power, that Christians say it is covetousness, weakness, and pride. Individuals such as them are not as important as the collective obeying the true king of kings AKA Yahweh. As this new belief system developed out of slavery, and as it was spread amongst the lowest in society, but also those with the greatest numbers, the manly virtuous of pre-Christian rulers was slowly overcome by the mass of people that were otherwise fairly inconsequential to the masters, except as, maybe a means to helping the master achieve his goals in life.
Granted I have over simplified Nietzsche’s ideas and the history of Christianity as well as Roman and Greek history. I know that. My post is an extremely broad, simplistic, and easily misunderstood post. I recommend readers take the time to increase their own understanding of these topics but, hopefully, my take turns out to be a bit more probable, than the idea that Democracy, Socialism, and Wokeism are the root cause of the decline of “manly virtues” of ancient Greece and rome. I would list the US too, but, as we all know, despite the secular basis of much of America’s historical formation, many of the earliest colonists were Christians. Ironically, Christian was spread through violence primarily which is not surprising because by the 1700s in America, it was already in a position of power just like the Greeks and Romans before Christianity. The same manly virtues found in pre-Christian Rome and Greece, were treated as evil and sinful long enough for Christianity to eventually come out on top and begin to function in the same way as those who were usurped by Christianity. So now, Christians consider themselves the ideal people and they view others as lesser than them good for enslavement, or death, to take what good Christians deserve at will. This manly version of Christianity in early America with its focus on expansion, growth, and force was not’ any different from pre-Christian Rome except that Christians were very compartmentalized about it. As they behaved like the masters Christianity was created to usurp, they also told themselves they were doing God works, that God was behind them, that forcing conversion, or ridding the world of savages, and enslaving other races. This was a pretty dire development because at least the ancient Greeks and Romans had no illusions about who they were, what they were doing, and why. Christians on the other hand, tell themselves they are different than those they replaced in history.