"There are no women on the internet" was a famous 4chan meme explaining (mansplaining?) to women that if they are not offering the probabilistic sensation of mating access, such as anonymous accounts, they cannot claim the female advantage, their historic source of power. Therefore, computer science and crypto, domains behind the scenes where no offer is made, have made the largest strides in the last 30 years. It is plausible to consider that it isn't that atoms are regulated and bits are not regulated, as Thiel contends which makes progress in bits faster, but that atoms can be obstructed by the probability cloud of sexual access to a woman, whereas bits don't see gender or sex. Bits are the last equality of opportunity.

The forcible insertion of women into the economy and online life has, therefore, been very similar to throwing a constant and significant bucket of sand into the gears of a well-oiled clock mechanism, slowing down some parts, breaking others, and completely halting some parts, causing some of the gears to spin in the reverse direction from what they should be spinning.

In more recent generations, Millenials and Zs, men have observed all this and chosen to go NEET or leave the labour force, withdrawing into MGTOWhood and personal interests. This is strategically correct because 50% of men now are incels, unable to find a mate in the last 12 months, self-reported. Because women choose by rank within the accessible range of men, and now all women are faced with a million men and not just 200 friends of friends, most men have drowned under the waterline of mating access that is worth it.

Men are idealists as mentioned above. In the absence of women, men live in apartments like this and think there is no problem whatsoever. Without the evolutionary need to peacock resources, men have an order of magnitude more resources than they need. This causes economic contraction on the supply side.

While men are fearsome, women are fearful, so women voting incentivizes authoritarian and apocalyptic rule by fear, which can be observed in the drift in the media from somewhat neutral to completely scary in the last 40 years. Scary sells and scary gets votes, in a world where women have the power and the votes.

With men recoiling in horror from the mating market, women are now alone when not with their shared man, and therefore more frail, more afraid, more emotionally unhinged, more manipulable, and more security concerned, more tall trees get cut, more distributive policies get voted, more large government demagogues get elected.

Young women have the last standing positional ranking good (pregnancies and sexual access to them) in a mostly abundant industrialized society of the top 1 billion, therefore they get the bulk of attention in the attention economy. Women thrive on attention signals, creating economic incentives to make them get dopamine signals from attention relatively easy, namely, the like button.

Back to our favorite incel Shopenhauer: “Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.”

This moves society towards Debord's Society of the Spectacle. My ADHD philosopher colleague
@ContraPoints
Natalye, who has been on both sides of the gender world, puts it best, "you think you're in the forum, but you're really in the circus". Clown world is a consequence of putting appearances over realities, a fundamentally female imposition. Much of wokeness is based on this principle of appearance over reality combined with harmony and the preservation of feelings over truth.