Love is a Many Splendored Thing

This One-Man-One-Woman crap is really annoying. Religious fanatics spew it incessantly, they think, to prove their point about gayness being wrong. But it’s so lame. Even putting aside the gay thing, it’s lame.

Why should anybody be stuck, for the rest of their life, til death do them part, with the same person, regardless of anything? Because some archaic tradition has ossified into an institution? Because One-Man-One-Woman + however many offspring is the basic unit of society and to go against something so basic is to go against God and Country?

Pa-leeze!

The divorce rate needn’t be lamented. Oh no! The disintegration of our so-called values! What’re we gonna do now?! We should be proud of the divorce rate. It reflects the state of our hearts…hearts we are finally starting to follow. And, in matters of love, it’s our hearts we need to follow, not society’s rule book. Love is not an institution.

It is a raging river, a tiny seedling reaching for the sun, a super nova, the mystery of birth, a wolf hunting a caribou. It cannot be tamed. Sometimes love comes crashing into our lives like a bull in a china shop, smashing everything gloriously to bits. Or it sneaks up on us slowly, only becoming visible in the tiniest of increments, until one day, it surprises us with its fortitude. Other times it’s a snowflake landing on our cheek, its cold-wet-melting piercing our hearts with poignancy, before disappearing forever. It takes whatever form it pleases, and stays as long…or as briefly…as it likes. There is no controlling it, it is like the wind…on a high and windy hill.

What if I’m a woman and I love two men…and they love each other? Or what if I love a woman? What if I love a lot of people over the course of my life? Why should I worry about trying to find a way to make my love(s) fit into one ill-designed box? Why is it even assumed it has to be a couple? If love between only two people genuinely lasts a lifetime, that’s wonderful. But its beginning…or ending…needn’t be a legal activity.

Same-sex love is no different. Why would anybody want to be that straight, conforming to the outlines of the religious fanatics’ master-slave mentality? That’s what marriage began as…a system of church and state sanctified male possession of women. Something with hideous roots like that cannot be the model for love, or legitimacy. If people really need to express the love in their hearts through something as absurd as legislation, why not level the playing field? Instead making same-sex marriage legal, let’s make opposite-sex marriage illegal.

Left vs. Right: What’s the Difference?

Does anybody else see the absurdity of this bizarre party thing? Left? Right? What does that mean? It’s like the people in Gulliver’s Travels, the ones perpetually at war with each other over which end is better to start eating a soft-boiled egg. Narrow or wide. Left or right. It makes no sense. Yet both wings carry on like they’ve got it all figured out. Signing petitions, going to rallies, ranting and raving, puffing out their chests and feeling oh-so-important, oh-so-sure they’ve got it boiled down to what’s really important. The so-called right-wingers think embryos are sacred but teen-agers make good canon fodder and the so-called left-wingers are exactly the opposite: kill the embryos, but stop the war! They’re both completely ridiculous, of course, and more alike than different.

The truth is, they’re mirror images of each other, each as mindless a pawn of corporate greed as the other. Their mutual hatred connects them as perfectly to each other as a perpetually spinning yin-yang symbol. Embryos and teen-agers are both sacred, and killing?…is killing. Yet they go forever in circles. What else can you do with only one wing, but flap about uselessly in a circle?

But this pointless bickering serves a useful function for the powers that be. It keeps everybody from noticing, or caring about what’s actually going on. The absurdity of this two party system simply keeps the powers that be in power.

“Sure,” they say, smiling their Inquisitors smiles, “fight about this stuff. We don’t care. And while you’re doing that, we’ll continue to make ourselves obscenely rich by sucking the life out of the planet. Good. Keep fighting amongst yourselves!”

It’s like a shell game. We’re killing ourselves and the rest of creation. But it doesn’t matter. The infighting goes on. This is how we convince ourselves we’ve created something special. If we’re fighting about it, it must be real, mustn’t it? We must be free. So we fight. This perpetuates the illusion that our so-called democracy, is real…that it’s something to believe in, be proud of, to kill and die for…that it’s more important than anything. Even life. Our fragile egos depend on it. We need to believe we’re part of something noble and great.

The powers that be continue on undisturbed while left and right snarl over the dried out old bones they get tossed. The extinctions go on and on. It’s business as usual.

Theme and Variations

 

The overthrow of mother right was the world-historic defeat of the female sex.  —Friedrich Engels

Variation I.

Every living creature on this planet is here because of sex. All plants, insects, fish, reptiles, mammals, birds are the product of sex.  This blue planet is a very sexy place.  Even the so-called asexual reproducers must experience sexuality on some scale when they asexually reproduce.  Why else would they bother?   Sexuality is the natural expression of cosmic intelligence. It’s the very music of The Spheres.  Sex is a microcosm of Life itself. Women are, by virtue of being the carriers, bearers and sustainers of new life, considerably more sexy than men.  Woman is the conduit for that cosmic intelligence.  Male human sexuality has only one goal oriented aspect: intercourse.  

Female human sexuality, however, has many:  the menstrual cycle (including menarche and menopause), intercourse, pregnancy, birth, lactation.  When god was a woman, She smiled on these rich variations and encouraged diversity.  Sex in all its variations was honored as an aspect of divinity. Sex was the sacred conduit, continually flowing into, out of, and between body and soul, earthly and cosmic.

Protopatriarchal Aryans recognized womankind as the embodiment of the awesome creative power of  the positive Life-Force of the cosmos:  Sex.  Control sex, they reasoned, and you control all of Nature.  The overthrow of mother right was the world-historic defeat of the female sex.  It started with rape.  Rape, something unheard of in pre-historic times, is the beginning of sexual control of woman by man.   Our modern conceptions of “romance” and “seduction” have their roots in rape.  In Hellenistic myth, when this or that god “seduced” this or that goddess, it means he raped her.  This was the dawning of the idea that women not only like to be raped, but should be. 

Sex became a trophy, commodity, a form of control rather than a communion.   Woman was humiliated, debased and made into the slave of  man’s  lechery.  She became a mere instrument for  the breeding  of his children.

This trend was expanded upon greatly in both the Christian and Scientific traditions.   Woman’s licentious nature is wholly responsible for man’s Fall from Grace  (even though woman’s sexuality is  the very Grace he Fell from).  Matter,  flesh, and nature became vile repulsive things one needed to subdue and “rise out of.”   Disembodied spirit, however, is pure, chaste and perfect—something Descartes was later able to “prove” with Mathematics. Sex became a sin and woman personified sex.   

Much later, Freud added his voice to the misogyny chorus using so-called scientific methods to prove the natural inferiority of women. The life-affirming abundance and sensuality of woman’s innate physical/spiritual being is perverted into something “evil.”  Because of woman’s lewd, lascivious and sensual nature man had to find a way to  secure her sexual constancy.  In order to be assured of the paternity of his children, he had to dominate her entirely. 

If he kills her, or merely rapes and tortures her, or kidnaps her children he is but exercising his right.   Within the context of patriarchy,  “Monogamy does not by any means make its appearance in history as the reconciliation of man and woman, still less the highest form of such a reconciliation.  On the contrary, it appears as the subjection of one sex by the other, as the proclamation of a conflict between the sexes entirely unknown  hitherto in prehistoric times.”  (Engels, p. 739)

Variation II.

 She understands with a perfect  dreadful clarity that she is all wrong.  She adjusts her behavior, her body and her entire belief system to enable her, but not other women, to be exempted from the sin of femininity.   She is better than the rest of those stupid females.  She realizes everything she is must be despised and subsumed by something she is not, and learns to ignore and hate what she is in order to love and embrace what she is not. It’s hard work, but well worth it.  Patriarchy thinks the feminine principle is a dangerous element that should be subdued at all costs.  She agrees.                  

She sees evidence of female stupidity every day.  At the office, in her family and among her friends.  It’s everywhere.  Swooning over this or that man—throwing their very lives away over him, even if he’s married or an alcoholic or worse.  Stabbing each other in the back.  Gossiping.  When somebody tells her these behaviors are the result of women’s lack of power in this society, that manipulation is the only form of control a woman has at her disposal, she rolls her eyes.  She never acts like that. She thinks women let men take all the power.  She does not realize that her own misogyny is, itself, the sophisticated and subtlized epitome of the very things she says she hates about women.

Women born in a misogynistic culture, unless specifically taught not to, accept, to some degree or another, its premises, for some period of their lives.  Every woman who fully accepts and internalizes patriarchal ideals is, in her unhappy heart, a microcosm  of the wider society and its state that so devalues and fears her.  Many never notice or question this.  Those who do must make a choice: freedom or safety.   Safety usually wins.   But this so-called safety has a price:  obedience.  And the respectability she earns in the patriarchal realm is at the expense of her self-respect.

 She thinks she has tons of self-respect.  She is intelligent, confidant and articulate.  She has made it in a man’s world better than a lot of men.  She had to work twice as hard as any man and is proud of this fact.  She thinks everybody should be in a position to have to struggle the way she did.  She does not think of her migraines, PMS or fibroids or her Aunt Hattie’s breast cancer as by-products of a society that hates women but as part of the innate curse of being unfortunate enough to be born female. The overthrow of mother right was the world-historic defeat of the female sex.

Variation III.

 The personal is the political and the more personal, the more political.  But politics are the symptom, not the solution–the solution is philosophical understanding. Where politics are about control, philosophy is about understanding.  Politics uses philosophy, twisting and distorting it however it needs to in order to validate itself and its institutions.

Politics is what prevents humanity from evolving group understanding. Politics is what enabled the overthrow of mother right. Politics was responsible for the world-historic defeat of the female sex.  But the political defeat of one is not the victory of the other, as much as it may appear.  It is the defeat of both.  Engels, in quoting Fourier’s thoughts on marriages of convenience demonstrated this, “Just as in grammar two negatives make a positive, so in the morals of a marriage, two prostitutions make one virtue.”  This virtue is not a virtue in the usual sense of the word but the appearance of a virtue.  It is a political system.  A world.  When a new world is born it is assumed to be an improvement. 

Philosophy is the enlargement of the soul, the liberation of spirit and the illumination of the mind.  Unlike politics, validation is its natural by-product, not it’s goal and liberation from the bonds of old conditioning comes through the liberation of understanding. This awareness is achieved en masse when a philosophical understanding saturates the collective consciousness.  When it does, entire populations, like a flock of birds changing direction mid-flight, can change their collective minds.  And their world changes. A new world is, in effect, born.  There is no limit to the diverse fragments of understanding and the ways in which they spread, each revolving, growing and expanding into new worlds.  Except for politics. 

Politics takes this new and temporary world born out of naturally flighty philosophical roaming and clamps it into an iron clad system.  A limitation one doesn’t dare step outside of, for stepping outside the limitations is punishable by law.  Philosophy becomes perverted into politics and inadvertently provides a basis for domination.

Variation IV.

 Religion is as improper a response to the divine as politics is to the philosophical.  Where divinity defies description, religion attempts to put it down on paper, making dogma of it and killing it in the process–not to mention killing people who don’t go along with it.  Gloria Steinem says,  “ Any religion in which god looks suspiciously like the ruling class is very different from spirituality that honors the godliness in each of us.  It makes us feel different. It makes us act different.”

Female divinity was, for the vast majority of human existence, an incredibly strong, pervasive and innate understanding.   It’s only natural—all of humanity is born of woman.  Multi-faceted female sexuality was in keeping with the creation myths that grew out of and supported multi-faceted female sexuality.  The religious overthrow of mother right and multi-faceted female sexuality, therefore, was the world-historic defeat of the female sex. 

Athene pre-dates Zeus—and Greece by—many millennia.  She was the Neolithic Great Goddess.  Before that, the Paleolithic Snake Goddess.  Re-mything Her into a motherless thing born full-grown out of the head of Zeus by early Hellenistic Patriarchy, via the politics of rape, was the beginning of this overthrow.  This re-mything defied sexuality making her, instead, a product of male thought.  We create, and re-create deities in our own image. They are our role models and specifically show us how to behave. Patriarchal godheads demonstrate how to clamp down spiritual wanderlust into a system that, by virtue of its domination mentality, becomes inescapable to all–irregardless of their spirituality. They validate domination because they are dominators.

The theme of patriarchal thinking has been to continuously usurp female power by defiling female sexuality and mother right.  Engels seems to have thought this was not a particularly difficult thing to accomplish, “For this revolution—one of the most decisive ever experienced by mankind—need not have disturbed one single living member of a gens.  All the members could remain what they previously were.”   Except it was not a single revolution and it disturbed everybody.  It took many thousands of years.  It took wave after wave of invasions—onslaughts of raping, pillaging, burning, destroying art, kidnapping, etc., to get to what was to become known as Hellenistic times.  

Like an onion, patriarchy peeled layer after layer of sanity away to get to the core of its own brutality.  Christianity.  Because sex, perverted as it was by rape, was still a central theme in the Hellenistic pantheon, these gods and goddesses were re-mythed by Christian patriarchy into a new pantheon of Saints.  Henry James Breasted said, “Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.” The new pantheon of Saints now existed as a foundation to uphold this monotheistic and imperialistic politico-religious system in which women were barely considered human.

From that unnatural and inhuman system came the Inquisition—the main purpose being the eradication of midwives in favor of the new  barber-surgeons, usurping woman’s one remaining power source: Childbirth.  The early medical men were ignorant and incompetent.  The infamous childbed fever was an iatrogenic disease.  Before the discovery of antiseptics, doctors would go directly from examining cadavers to examining birthing women without bothering to wash their hands.  When Semmelweis discovered proper antiseptic hand-washing prevented puerperal fever, doctors (after many years of foot-dragging suspicion about antiseptics, and many more thousands of deaths) heroically took credit for curing a disease they themselves caused.  They became the saviors of all of womankind.  Out of love for her children, womankind was duped.  She believed Medicine was the savior of the terrible thing known as childbirth.

Variation V.

 Money is just a unit of measurement.  It represents the expenditure of energy in the production of goods and the securing of services.  It measures to what degree physical forces are dominated by the will.  Engels said, “Monogamy arose out of the concentration of considerable wealth in the hands of one person—and that a man—and out of the desire to bequeath this wealth to this man’s children and to no one else’s.”    When sexual, political and religious status is reduced or denied, a corresponding  and proportionate lack will be reflected in the financial status as well.  This “proves” the correctness of such attitudes and practices and propagates their further continuance.   Numbers don’t lie.   Engels says,  “As wealth increased, it, on the one hand gave the man a more important status in the family than the woman, and on the other hand, created a stimulus to utilise this strengthened position in order to overthrow the traditional order of inheritance in favour of his children.”            

Money is an unobstructed vehicle for domination and oppression.  All of womankind became ensnared in the web of man’s exclusive financial system.  Even her children belonged to him.  Divorce was only an option for women willing to leave their children with the father that owned them.  The economic overthrow of mother right was the world-historic defeat of the female sex.  Engels says, “The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman; and modern society is a mass composed solely of individual families as its molecules.”   The larger society, and its state are reflected in microcosm in the marital relations of individual couples.  “In the family,” Engels continues, “ he is the bourgeois; the wife represents the proletariat.”

Long live the revolution!

  

 

Domesticated Animals

Domesticated Animals.

Domesticated Animals

A domesticated species is one whose body and behavior has been specifically modified. Spastic, neurotic humanity is as much a victim of animal husbandry as any nervous wreck of a Chihuahua. And like our artificially selected cousin the Chihuahua, we are dependent and helpless. Useless, really, for anything but serving the whims of our master. This master, a.k.a., Civilization, has broken us so well, we believe we need it to survive.

We’re so helpless, news broadcasters report on power-outages like they’re a tragedy. Yeah, they’re inconvenient, but we’ve existed a lot longer without electricity than with. But the grid is part of the illusion of control. When even a tiny part of the matrix fails, it’s news worthy. It plays on our worst fears…that dangerous, untamed forces might rush in and destroy everything. And if a few people die? Oh my God! This proves the worst could happen to us, too.

This is the leash our master keeps us on.

Once upon a time, we were strong, courageous and intelligent hunter-gatherers, who took only what we needed. We enjoyed symbiotic relationships with other species. Scavenging canines hung out around our encampments, strengthening both their territories and ours. Ravens, who help many predators hunt, were our friends. We even grew into a symbiosis with herbivores by propagating the kinds of plants they liked. Being around human and canine territories meant fewer predators for the herds. These relationships developed naturally and were mutual, they weren’t the result of our “superiority.” This peaceful co-existence lasted so much longer than anything since.

But.

We became greedy, rapacious gluttons. Simple pastoral and agrarian ways devolved into the obscenities of deforestation, mono-culture and mass predator-killing. With an excess of stored food, came the perceived need to protect the stores. As food stores grew, so grew the population, so grew the fear, which spun-off to infect many other areas of life. With the Bronze Age, lethal weapons fertilized growing fears, and with the Iron Age came even worse weapons. The more sophisticated the weaponry became, the deeper the fear was driven. This schizophrenic, divisive dynamic grew exponentially all the way into the really terrified Nuclear Age. And Monsanto.

People believe civilization was created for humanity. That’s the dominant myth. It’s the only myth never argued among your arguing factions. They’ll fight endlessly about every other infinitesimal nuance of the smoke and mirrors, but never that. Yes, civilization emerged because of us. But for us? Hardly. It’s murdered too many billions of us for that to be true. It exists only for itself, murdering the planet, extincting her darlings. When this planet is sucked dry, it’ll just move on to another, and we’ll pat ourselves on the back for being such clever colonists. We refuse to see the escalating sickness as anything other than progressive improvements on the way things used to be. We believe the way it is, is the way it’s supposed to be. Because we are the most domesticated animal we have ever bred.

Security

I once scared off a threatening, would-be bad guy by turning his verbal abuse back on him. I screamed at him with righteous indignation. When he ran out into the street to get away from me, a terrified look on his face, I told him to get back here so I could rip him out a new one. He couldn’t believe my audacity and ran off. People looked at me in horror. But my 9 year old son and I had not a hair on either of our heads bothered.

Another time, when my son was a still a toddler, we were followed by a masturbating guy in a car. We were walking. I had made the mistake of seeing him, so he thought he should follow us, block by block in his car, to, I guess, get off on our traumatization. This went on for about a mile, getting progressively more disturbing. When he was waiting for us in a parking lot, outside his care this time, and leaning against it, thing in his hand and a smug look on his face, I traumatized him. I, very loudly, made fun of his nasty, puny little thing and repeatedly hollered out his license plate number as he roared away in a terrified cloud of black exhaust fumes. His license plate number was the first thing I said when I called 911 at the pay phone on the next block. I didn’t have a pencil. He was long gone when the cops arrived, but the cops were clearly impressed with my treatment of him. I don’t think they ever found him, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t get off!

I did not have pepper spray, an assault rifle, or any other so-called security devise. I didn’t even have a pencil. All I had was a secure sense of myself. And ya’ know what? That’s all I needed. It’s all anybody needs. The only thing we have to fear, as FDR so correctly said, is Fear, itself. Fear is how a woman becomes the victim of a creep on the street. And fear is how a country creates situations resulting in its being attacked. One is writ small, the other writ large, but it’s the same thing.

Fear.

When we replace a belief in our inherent strength with a belief in the artificial systems designed to supposedly protect us, and our stuff, we make ourselves ever more weak and dependent. Which makes us more afraid. It’s a vicious circle. It brings us to the point of saying things like, “Well if I’m not doing anything wrong, it doesn’t matter if the government spies on me.”

Yeah right.
Security is a state of mind, nothing else. Every brilliant innovation in the improvement of so-called security systems has its counter-part…an equally brilliant way of breaching it. Remember. The cops only come after the fact. They can’t prevent anything. Only awareness and a refusal to be dominated by fear prevents becoming a victim. Wire taps, covert ops and a million men in black cannot prevent foreign invaders. If they really want to invade, nothing can stop them. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.  Likewise, on the home front, hiring ADT, Pinkerton’s or the Keystone Cops will not prevent your becoming a victim.  The only thing  fear-based systems do is make people more dependent, afraid and obedient to the forces who really only care about production.

Was I afraid of these men on the street? Yes.  But natural fear is a positive thing.   Adrenaline came to my defense and I ran with it.

Oh yeah. There is one thing that would eliminate the potential for foreign invaders…a foreign policy based on decency. That would prevent a whole lot of trouble.

Amtheomusings

It is very curious that we call the government’s interventions into society with the end of providing “for people’s good” paternalism, wherein the government takes it upon itself to fulfill the “parental role” by either banning or restricting the availability of some large sugary drinks or trans fats or marijuana or alcohol or tobacco or gasoline or meat or video games or fast food or medicine or cheap labor or trade with Cuba or trade with Iran or liberty or life or religion or speculation in the potato market or sound currency or failed banks or failed automative businesses or education or cheap housing or expensive housing or cheap corn or expensive corn or letting rental units be placed next to each other or plumbing or cars or freedom of assembly or protests or bullying or homophobia or racism or young people or old people or hair stylists or ice…

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Equality? Really?

Maybe I’m weird, or a math nerd, or a word fanatic, but, every time I hear the word “equality,” it conjures up fascistic images of complete, absolute, 100% total conformity. Everybody wearing the same clothes, the same hair style, living in identical houses, believing the same propaganda…and it makes me sick. The word “equal” is a mathematical term that means exactly the same as. Now, I don’t know about you, but to me, the idea of everybody being exactly the same as everybody else sounds a lot like the Third Reich. To me, it’s a scenario I would do my damnedest to escape from, not a lofty ideal to which I would ever aspire. And the phrase “equal but different” is not an improvement. It’s an oxymoron that cancels itself out, even as it is uttered. 1+1=2. 1+1≠3. It really is that obvious.

Yes-yes. I know. When people say “equality,” they don’t mean it in a mathematical sense, but in a legal sense: for all people to have the legal entitlement to equal rights, equal treatment, equal pay. But it takes too long to say all that. It’s a lot easier to abbreviate with the sweeping generalization, “equality.” It’s assumed everybody knows what you mean. But with something this important, is an assumption good enough? It’s the wrong word. Why not say “homogeneity?” Or how about “uniformity?” That’s not the intended meaning, but that’s what’s being created. Incrementally. What people are trying, and for some reason, failing to say is “egalitarianism.” That’s the right word. It means everybody is different and diverse and unique and that that’s a good thing. There are no value judgments, everybody gets to be who they really are with the exact same rights as everybody else. Now that would be something to behold! Egalitarianism. One word that accurately describes an entire concept. But nobody uses it. Strange…

How can a culture, as obsessed with verbosity and nit-picking legal technicalities as this one is, refuse to use the right word? It makes no sense. Is there something wrong with the right word? Does it have too many syllables? No. People in overly literate cultures like this one love multi-syllabic words. It makes them feel smart,important, more than equal. That’s why jargon and nomenclature are so popular. It’s certainly not illiteracy. The dominant culture is, if anything, a slave to the written word. Literally. It’s all spelled out in its Creation Myth. “The Word” is what makes manifest. Nothing else. “The Word” is all important. Everything we know, or think we know, everything we hold dear is produced from “The Word.” So why this persistent use of the wrong word? And for something so basic, so important…what is it?

It’s auto-pilot.

Auto-pilot?!

Yes. Auto-pilot. And it’s marching on, as to war.

Something unnatural, unsustainable and, for lack of a better word, evil was set into motion a long, long time ago. It has gained a lot of momentum, has become ubiquitous enough to be invisible. Hidden in plain sight. And everybody…be they a bleeding heart left-wing liberal progressive, or a right-wing, blood lusting war mongering racist, be they an American, Israeli, Arab, Christian, Jew or Muslim…everybody is carrying it along, working together to make it manifest.

Together?!

Yes. Together. The more they fight against each other, the stronger it becomes. One stinking war at a time. It thrives on antagonism, any antagonism. It doesn’t matter what “issues” are at stake or how well fueled they may be by native intelligence, passion and a burning desire for justice. It doesn’t matter which side “wins.” All that matters is that people fight with and kill each other over whatever minor variations they think they perceive in each others’ world views. War is very profitable, in the short view. In the long view, the adversarial method grinds humanity ever onwards to the coveted New World Order.

What does this have to do with Equality?

Everything! Because, in the end, there aren’t any “sides” and everybody…everybody…loses. Equally. The reason nobody uses the word “egalitarianism” is because Egalitarianism makes male supremacy impossible. Egalitarianism is Old School. Really Old School. It was humanity’s way of life for millions of years, and it worked brilliantly. God was female, with multiple aspects, sex was for pleasure as much as for procreation and not constrained to any stupid and puritanical, made up, male-dominating laws. Morality was an organic, living thing not an externally enforced set of rules enforced by outside “authorities.” Everybody was their own authority and knew right from wrong. In this paradigm, divinity is innate, it is the Inner Voice that is always Right. With multiple gods, the diversity of Nature is celebrated, and the celebration naturally extends to ourselves.

But monotheism changed all that. With One God, only conformity is allowed. One way of seeing Divinity. One way of living and loving. One way of planting. One crop, one type of animal only, no natural diversity allowed. A tight control must be kept and everything segregated into its made-up place. This is considered progress. This is not progress, it is a monstrous Frankenstein experiment.

In the New World Order, everything…everything…is a standardized artificial construction, from individual thoughts, belief systems, and social structures, to education/indoctrination systems, to immune systems, reproductive systems and food production systems, where corporate sponsors tell you what to think and you think it, because you cannot even conceive of doing otherwise, because any models for doing otherwise are long extinct…for this world, homogeneity and uniformity are an absolute necessity. And Equality, not Egalitarianism, is the way to get there…and it has to be fought for, against many opponents. It has to have opponents and it has to be a fight. How else would it be perceived as, not only worthy, but Real? That is the mechanism by which humanity can maintain its illusion of Free Will and choice. The reality is different. The controls keep getting tighter, don’t they? The level of Fear keeps rising and citizens happily give up one Freedom after another in return for alleged “security.” Supporting this dynamic is the persistent use of the word “Equality.”

“The Word” really is powerful.

How about we start using the right one?