I deeply appreciate the lucidity you bring to this issue and your refreshing ability to look truth right in the eye. It is a relief to read your pieces. They are my favorite antidote to the screeching hysteria and hyperbole of the rest of the media. Thank you for taking the time to deconstruct this topic. In order to evolve, we must know where we are first. Brava!
I am drafting an outline for the book and so facing a ton of self doubt. I really appreciate your support especially as I embark on this. This is a welcome reminder to keep going even if no one reads it and I have to self publish. The few people who might will appreciate it.
Trust your own authenticity. There is a reason your voice is resonating right now. Forget the CV-addled MSM, Academia and publishing silos. These are failing institutions rotting on the vine.
There is a hunger for authentic voice and you are part of the vanguard building a new foundation for communication and inquiry. Time is my most precious and limited resource and I just spent 2.5 hours of it today listening to your wonderful and edifying podcast. I was richly rewarded with expanded universe. There are more like me out there. Keep going. Or, in the words of the immortal Pink Floyd, “Shine on you crazy diamond.”
The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” This is a call to bring forth heart and truth, which have never been more needed than at this critical juncture in history. We cannot allow the fake, the plastic, the packaged to defeat the organic, the true, the salient. The Buddha said it best “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
I think part of the problem with the whole "feminization" discourse is the different perceptions of "feminine". Maybe i'm old school, bit for me "feminine" is tightly connected to women. So the "feminisation" does read like the women are the cause of it, while you mentioned that the "feminisation" was happening when there were no women involved.
Maybe "covertisation" would be a better term? When one of the main points of "feminisation" is doing things covertly and subtly. Or maybe even "emotionalisation" as i think nowadays the emotions are the thing that is sold. Something is created that triggers emotion and it is sold so that you woukd get a desired emotion triggered.
I lament the fact that you are moving on from this topic. You are deep into a leadership role holding one of the lines dragging the basket of humanity toward understanding for what has happened and is happening. I believe that the Great Feminization is THE topic of our time... the primary plague for everything wilting in the once fruitful garden of American-led Western civilization. Helen Andrew's article was certainly a crucible, but only a beginning. People like Jordan Peterson have been nibbling around the edges of the theme but missing this key explanation of connection to the devolution of our corporate economic system.
One way I see this. Real democratic capitalism, as defined by human behavior observing architects like Adam Smith, runs as a merit-based hierarchical patriarchy. In that system there is constant churn... self-correcting markets and within the markets there is great income opportunity and mobility for individuals. The natural pursuit of business will always be to control more markets share. However, too much market share erodes individual access to the benefit of economic opportunity and income mobility. We discovered this as a potential flaw during the Gilded Age and implemented antitrust laws. The remedy is to aggressively break up the large corporations.
The large corporations will resist this with everything they have. That includes relying on the feminized managers and their political foot soldiers to get more and more extreme in fomenting resistance. The trajectory they want is a matriarchy... socialism... the end of the Great Experiment. The end of Western civilization as we know it.
The war against this required significant education of the people for what is really happening. Most cannot see it. Most are susceptible to the emotional terrorism from this corporatist regime (remember that THEY own all the media).
This is why I lament you moving on. I think we are in the beginning of the Great Explanation. You feel like it is an old topic as you have been on the leading edge doing the thinking and writing, but for the rest of the population, they are only starting to wake up.
I promise I will not abandon gender as an analytical category. Maybe it's that I've been doing it for so long, and the conversation around it is so silly, it makes me want to just back away. I feel like, while I have people like you among my readers, they're actually kind of unusual in that they are willing to think structurally. Now that the mainstream outlets are talking about it, they define the terms on which the conversation may take place. It's not that no one will read if I write about it, but more that I have no one to have the conversation with. So for example, I will not stop digging into psychology, but I'm not sure how many more ways I can say that the behavioral preferences of women have become institutionalized. I may return to it, and your point is well taken, but I do think I have more to offer beyond this one lane I've been writing in for a while. I guess now that the conversation is so pedestrian, I am intellectually bored by it.
I deeply appreciate the lucidity you bring to this issue and your refreshing ability to look truth right in the eye. It is a relief to read your pieces. They are my favorite antidote to the screeching hysteria and hyperbole of the rest of the media. Thank you for taking the time to deconstruct this topic. In order to evolve, we must know where we are first. Brava!
I am drafting an outline for the book and so facing a ton of self doubt. I really appreciate your support especially as I embark on this. This is a welcome reminder to keep going even if no one reads it and I have to self publish. The few people who might will appreciate it.
Trust your own authenticity. There is a reason your voice is resonating right now. Forget the CV-addled MSM, Academia and publishing silos. These are failing institutions rotting on the vine.
There is a hunger for authentic voice and you are part of the vanguard building a new foundation for communication and inquiry. Time is my most precious and limited resource and I just spent 2.5 hours of it today listening to your wonderful and edifying podcast. I was richly rewarded with expanded universe. There are more like me out there. Keep going. Or, in the words of the immortal Pink Floyd, “Shine on you crazy diamond.”
The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas quotes Jesus as saying “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” This is a call to bring forth heart and truth, which have never been more needed than at this critical juncture in history. We cannot allow the fake, the plastic, the packaged to defeat the organic, the true, the salient. The Buddha said it best “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
I think part of the problem with the whole "feminization" discourse is the different perceptions of "feminine". Maybe i'm old school, bit for me "feminine" is tightly connected to women. So the "feminisation" does read like the women are the cause of it, while you mentioned that the "feminisation" was happening when there were no women involved.
Maybe "covertisation" would be a better term? When one of the main points of "feminisation" is doing things covertly and subtly. Or maybe even "emotionalisation" as i think nowadays the emotions are the thing that is sold. Something is created that triggers emotion and it is sold so that you woukd get a desired emotion triggered.
I lament the fact that you are moving on from this topic. You are deep into a leadership role holding one of the lines dragging the basket of humanity toward understanding for what has happened and is happening. I believe that the Great Feminization is THE topic of our time... the primary plague for everything wilting in the once fruitful garden of American-led Western civilization. Helen Andrew's article was certainly a crucible, but only a beginning. People like Jordan Peterson have been nibbling around the edges of the theme but missing this key explanation of connection to the devolution of our corporate economic system.
One way I see this. Real democratic capitalism, as defined by human behavior observing architects like Adam Smith, runs as a merit-based hierarchical patriarchy. In that system there is constant churn... self-correcting markets and within the markets there is great income opportunity and mobility for individuals. The natural pursuit of business will always be to control more markets share. However, too much market share erodes individual access to the benefit of economic opportunity and income mobility. We discovered this as a potential flaw during the Gilded Age and implemented antitrust laws. The remedy is to aggressively break up the large corporations.
The large corporations will resist this with everything they have. That includes relying on the feminized managers and their political foot soldiers to get more and more extreme in fomenting resistance. The trajectory they want is a matriarchy... socialism... the end of the Great Experiment. The end of Western civilization as we know it.
The war against this required significant education of the people for what is really happening. Most cannot see it. Most are susceptible to the emotional terrorism from this corporatist regime (remember that THEY own all the media).
This is why I lament you moving on. I think we are in the beginning of the Great Explanation. You feel like it is an old topic as you have been on the leading edge doing the thinking and writing, but for the rest of the population, they are only starting to wake up.
I promise I will not abandon gender as an analytical category. Maybe it's that I've been doing it for so long, and the conversation around it is so silly, it makes me want to just back away. I feel like, while I have people like you among my readers, they're actually kind of unusual in that they are willing to think structurally. Now that the mainstream outlets are talking about it, they define the terms on which the conversation may take place. It's not that no one will read if I write about it, but more that I have no one to have the conversation with. So for example, I will not stop digging into psychology, but I'm not sure how many more ways I can say that the behavioral preferences of women have become institutionalized. I may return to it, and your point is well taken, but I do think I have more to offer beyond this one lane I've been writing in for a while. I guess now that the conversation is so pedestrian, I am intellectually bored by it.