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In practice, the Saudi royal family(which runs on this kind of patriarchy) does a better job of avoiding 'all power to the senile' than the US gerontocracy. I'll wager it'll do a better job than the British monarchy does, as well. We really don't know much about the influence of aged, high status female Sauds(and Saudi Arabia is a personal possession of the Saud clan), but it's a good bet that it exists, given how clan dynamics work. The Saud clan also has super-opaque internal dynamics we only get glimpses of when people are purged, exiled, or murdered, which seems more like a female dynamic to western sensibilities.
I'd point to the privileging of the old over the young which afflicts the west- as in the specific gerontocratic model we see in the anglosphere- as the sort of explicit thing that can only happen when patriarchy is broken; the patriarchal answer to social security is for children to have legal obligations to take care of their aged parents, China had this sort of patriarchal society before Mao and is experiencing issues of relations between the generations running on dynamics which seem inscrutable to westerners. A patriarchal society prefers to keep major social functions within the clan so they can remain under the control of elders rather than the state. This of course means that when natural faculties start to fade the next generation(still quite old, of course) rises in influence because there's no one to stop them.
De Maistre wrote about this- 'the counter revolution is not the revolution opposite, but the opposite of the revolution'. In the modern west we see some parallel society movement among social conservatives who nevertheless participate in society- think the Knights of Columbus benefits for their members, or the LDS... everything, or generically Christian health sharing initiatives, or the homeschooling movement. These things are exactly what he's talking about; the establishment of folkways/institutions which accomplish the things needed by a healthy society in a time of chaos is the traditionalist social redoubt, in a form which grows because it is healthy, crowding out the dysfunctional revolutionary folkways until it reaches a position of dominance at which it can calcify into tradition. And the decline in Christianity has halted, per the latest pew poll. Parallel institutions steadily grow. It's the opposite of the revolution, it proceeds agonizingly slowly but steadily, almost unnoticed until the tortoise overtakes the hare's fits and starts and from the perspective of the normie becomes just the way it is.
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