All improvements welcomed. This started as a rant in my phone's notes then evolved into an essay. I'm new to posting but I've been lurking the manosphere for 5-6 years. Cheers.

Human survival is predicated upon group activity, therefore the biological evolutionary process is strictly tied to cognitive faculties that facilitate advantageous social behaviors across groups (e.g. advanced language capability, writing, memory, imagination, etc.). Thus, changes in the genetic material brought by natural selection are happening at both the personal, sexual, and social-group levels. The hypothesis of the social imperative on human development is critical to exploring the proposed hypothesis, in which I outline a design for clarifying societal structures and distilling actionable insights. Radical shifts in social conditioning among (post)modernized cultures has resulted in a fundamental deconfiguring of the natural human structure. The result seems to be the immediate degeneration in adaptability of the social-group at the intersexual level (i.e. the relationships of heterosexual men and women), with pronounced effect on family disintegration and child-rearing. This degeneration has been codified in the social and legal institutions to reinforce the hypergamy of the female sex, and condition the male-group into compliance with the female imperative. However, this shift has detrimental consequences on activities like long-term relationships and parenting. This hypothesis seeks to explore the evolutionary history and modern politico-military necessity of male patriarchy, as well as breakdown the fundamental observations on male social nature.

While classes can be stratified within societies by a variety of socioeconomic factors (status, education, income, etc.), I posit that in a feminized, pluralist, socioeconomic-mobile society, all men belong to a unified group regardless of class factors like race, income or education. This is because men at all levels are participating in a vast hypergamous paradigm that ultimately divests men on both the personal and social level of autonomy and control in society. Divorce, child custody, alimony, paternity fraud, male suicide, male occupational hazards, and combat trauma are all products of the hypergamous paradigm of unreciprocated male disposability that patriarchy as an institution offset.

Patriarchy generates evolutionarily advantageous benefits to the whole social-group (i.e. women and children) and improves group genetic survivability when pitted in competition with other groups. Male control (i.e. patriarchy) has always curbed female hypergamy and invented means of cooperation for the young men in the group to reduce internal violence, improve the viability of paternal offspring, and cooperate to hunt animals and defend paternal offspring (and women) from attack from foreign human tribes. Let us not forget, when one tribe conquered another, the males of the defeated tribe were likely executed and the females were impregnated by the victors, thereby solidifying the evolutionarily advantageous social order via the diffusion of the superior tribe's genetics into the inferior's, and the extinction of the inferior as a whole. The male imperative seeks to protect the group genetics from extinction, whereas the female seeks to merge its genetics with whatever group of men is capable of causing extinction. Don't forget: the homo sapiens species committed genocide against several other species of humans in our evolutionary history; thus, we can conclude that group-based natural selection is a part of our evolutionary strategy. This is the male imperative in contrast with the female imperative.

Moreover, from an evolutionary perspective, females are both a biologically and socially deficient sex for the purposes of traditionally male-dominated activities (hunting, law enforcement, warfare, husbandry, etc.). Females lack the hormonal and physical necessities to bear the burden of occupational hazards and warfare. Females lack the strong evolutionary tendency of men for paternal ownership of children (and thus investing in their protection, development, and preparation to take responsibility from their fathers when they come of age and steward the society.) Indeed, hypergamy is entirely antithetical to genetic ownership, and thus degenerates the patriarchal basis for health and success of the whole society. It is the male imperative alone that fosters healthy child development, securing the long-term continued success of the tribe. This is true because in patriarchies males invest resources into their own children. Moreover, patriarchies emphasize skill and merit. Therefore, males in a patriarchy use all available resources to develop children into productive members of society. It is the male imperative which is fundamentally group-focused (as opposed to the self-securing motive of the female imperative). It is the male imperative that enforces social conventions which, in the interest of the group, has always restricted the inherent selfish nature of the female sexual strategy. Females, on average, also react to difficulty, anxiety, stress, and trauma radically different than men on both personal and group levels. It was and always has been exceedingly obvious that nature has produced a hierarchy to human society, with it proven to be advantageous to the whole when men exercise authority. Moreover, it is important to note that in patriarchal societies, authority was primarily gained via male-dominated institutions such as warfare, hunting, or husbandry. Ergo, those institutions which preserved the whole of society by providing resources and protection were the same one's primarily operated by men via natural selection.

Modern state authorities evolved from the ancient patriarchal institutions, so it seems important to briefly draw a link between them. All rights taken for granted by the modern female stem directly from the ancestral male decision to use male monopoly of force to permit females increased political power. In other words, regardless of changing social normalities, the gateway of political power is always predicated on the concensus of the male sex. In the event of some socio-economic cataclysm, even the most libertine society would revert to patriarchal authoritarianism if it could, or perhaps in order to survive extinction from war with another more male-dominated, aggressive tribe. This is especially so when considering that the main evolutionary pressure in human warfare for virtually all of its genetic history was physical strength. Remember, people fought with sticks before the advent of firearms.

An interesting picture emerges from evolutionary history. Patriarchy seems to have developed from the evolutionary forces that equipped the male sex with the means to best preserve their respective genetic groups. Over time, those institutions which were the most critical to the group (warfare and food-gathering) placed the male sex into the unique position of leading, overseeing, and shepherding the group as a whole, furthering the evolutionary justification that men have developed superior cognitive faculties relating to organizational leadership and group coordination, and orher cognitive abilities that would serve the evolutionary advantage of the group. Moreover, it informs us on some of the underpinning evolutionarily advantageous psychologies that may still be lingering in the male mind. For example, men need a sense of purpose, and generally speaking, bond with other men over team- and group-oriented activities. The parallel advantages to hunter-gatherer and warfare societies is obvious, and it is easy to see why sports are so appealing to men today.

In short, patriarchy is the natural order of human society. Because it is a product of natural selection, we can reach several conclusions. 1.) Patriarchy is the optimized form of human society. 2.) Men are innately gifted with capabilities most closely associated with historically patriarchal institutions which developed via the process of natural selection. For example, males have a higher range of IQ, whereas females have a closer central tendency. Moreover, almost all of the highest IQs belong to men. 3.) Men are better equipped to deal with specific forms of stress or trauma most closely associated with historically patriarchal institutions, though it is unclear if these could be environmentally conditioned out of the make by a feminized society.

However, evolutionary advantages are in suspension in (post)modern society. Today, the male sex is targeted for social and legal domination via the female imperitive. Thus, degeneration can only result. Indeed, the degree to which the female imperative is imposed on society, the weaker that society will become in two directions. Internally, the family structure will disintegrate because it should be remembered that female sexual strategy is against paternal ownership. Family structure is an inherently male institution whereby men protected and invested in their own genetic procreation to ensure it survived childhood and had resources to outcompete other men's children, where the female serves as an aid in this process in return for shared protection and economic resources gathered by the male. In turn, the female could safely nurture the male's genetic material (his offspring) until the boy can join his father doing men's work. Otherwise a daughter was prepared for marriage to build advantageous connections between fathers. This paradigm has been dead for 60 years in (post)modern societies.

Consider current social issues. Females are increasing the level of male disposability in society. The female sex is becoming entirely dependent upon the state for sustenance (e.g. The ugly truth of so-called "independent" women). Long-term this is economically unsustainable. Children are reacting in antisocial and destructive manners (ADHD, autism, Aspergers, depression, anxiety, drug overdose/addiction, teen suicide, etc.). Rise in single-motherhood. Rise in fatherless homes. Welfare state. Men increasingly turn to suicide. Females are killing and abandoning their own offspring (black females in NYC abort more offspring than they birth). Cuckoldry/paternity fraud. Step-fatherization. Family, criminal, political decay concentrated in most densely hypergamous regions (high population, extreme liberal urban centers).

An interesting note is that the female sex benefits from all this on a personal level in the short-term. Thus, during the time of group decline, the female imperative see the group change as a net gain. In this way, feminization acts as a fly-wheel. Having taken control of the social and legal institutions, females impose the penalties for dysfunction back upon the male sex, thereby shielding themselves from male punishment. This accelerates the decline, as once the force of violence (the state) fully restricts the male sex from imposing its imperative (recall: male imperative is group survival as opposed to female self-centered imperative), all remaining order will rapidly unravel. This is the second direction of decline. As paternal ownership vanishes from the society, the men will have no motive or means to protect women, prepare children for adulthood, or sacrifice their lives to prevent the extinction of the group from demise in warfare. Males, having no stake in the group, will permit the group to go extinct except to save themselves. In the aftermath, small pockets of patrilineal clans might emerge in localized patriarchies like religious communities due to pair bonding with women who possess the strongest natural genes that resisted degeneration. These small bands would constitute the basis of the post-collapse sub-groups. We are already seeing this begin with the privatization of public administration like in France before the collapse of the Ancièn Regime. A private family business can maintain hereditary ownership over a segment of society, usually confined to the children of the male business executive (i.e. Returning to patrilineal tribalism). In times like this, a competing tribe of people might begin escalating military attacks as they see instability symbolic of a decreased will-to-fight. In the event of violent conflict, rapid degeneration can occur again since little to no group-level morale or esprit d'corp exists. Within one generation, complete exhaustion or politico-military breakdown is possible. This is best remembered in the final sack of Rome by the Germanic barbarians, who upon sieging the city, found little armed resistance from the natives of that land. Where a once imperial tribe had thrived and civilized the continent, a malaise of indifference had consumed the people. When a peoples' will to live and fight has become so degenerated, they accept whatever terms their exterminator reckons for them. In accordance with the theory of natural selection, any society in which a patriarchy was overcome by hypergamous feminization must have been in some way defunct, and as a result, it was only a matter of time before the decay weakened the group as a whole until its destruction from some internal violence or external warfare. Following fragmentation, better optimized, local patriarchies would solidify stability and reinitiate intergroup relations based on newly defined group interests. This is the result of the female imperative when weaponized with the highest social and legal authority of a social group such as a (post)modern state.

In a feminized, pluralist (post)modern society, males have an urgent need to continue the meritocratic spirit of the online manosphere into simple, real-world action for self-improvement, support, and fraternal mentorship. I submit to the judgement of the manosphere an amateur scientific theory in support of positive masculinity, with hope that it can contribute to the betterment of brothers around the world.