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There's a theory, upon which is formed our very basic belief that technology
is our race's salvation..and the current path of our evolution. This theory
proposes that human beings, freed from the drudgery of basic survival, will
tend toward thoughtfulness; fostering a race of philanthropists, philosophers
and artists of great mind and even greater heart. That's the theory
anyway..more or less. It was medulla deep in this theory that I found myself
the other day, while pondering WHAT on EARTH is happening to our people.
The naysayers, (who say "nay!" to the notion that anything is awry with the
course of human development), will no doubt claim that people have been
complaining of the decline of civilization for centuries. To these I say,
perhaps our people's decline isn't like a bathtub draining, but more like a
cliff being worn away by the waves at high tide. The complaints came while
the waves pounded at night..not while the sand settled in the morning. When
you are born with half a sky, you can't tell the sky's been falling at first;
particularly between pieces.
But the sky IS falling, and the rate has picked up significantly. Perhaps a
question for another time is..where are the pieces landing, and what does
that mean for us? For another time.
For now, back to our theory, and into another..a hunch which proposes that
our race has been engaged in a grand test of the "freedom from basic
survival fosters the human heart" hypothesis. And the theory seems to have
proven itself out because the test was extremely successful.
Unfortunately, we seem to have discontinued the experiment; the unfortunate
result being that the advances made over hundreds of thousands, if not
millions of years, may very well be obliterated in a dozen generations or
less.
So how was this experiment carried out? When and where? Why right under our
very noses..directly in front our our lives. For the family unit in all of
its many forms has provided the container for the grand experiment in the
evolution of the human heart.
In this experiment, we find that the family unit has been divided into two
sexes:
One sex, the male, has been tasked with providing for the basic suvival needs
of himself and the others in his family unit. To bring home the bacon is to
succeed as a man. If his family (or tribe, or gang) goes without, he is seen
as a failure.
The other sex, female, is charged with providing a nurturing environment for
all in the family unit. In particular she is charged with raising BOTH sexes
during their younger years, then specifically the females as they grow out of
early childhood. Always, however, is the reverence for mother practically
sacrosanct. If her people feel emotionally nurtured, loved and have as
asthetically agreeable an environment as possible, then a woman is seen as a
success. If the people around her are unhappy, or emotionally neglected..if
their home environment is depressing, or otherwise unpleasant, she is seen as
a failure.
And it is this simple division that set up a process that has been doing its
thing, quite likely, for as long as human beings have been around.
And what is it that this division does?
It provides for the evolution of our entire race toward the much touted
"philanthropic human."
While the males remained less evolved than the females throughout the
process, their early years spent with mother, led to the personality of a
slightly "more human" male than his father has been. Over the course of
millenia, these advances were significant. If our push button way of doing
war has anything hopeful to tell us, it is that we have at least evolved to
the point where we can't stand to WATCH as we harm each other.
That is, until the advent of forced schooling, the so-called "sexual
revolution" and the rise of greed-controlled mass media.
Suddenly, the advancement mechanism has been removed. There is little
isolation from the survival struggle. There are few at home to nurture. There
is little to soften our animal edges.
And so our people are becoming hard and beastly again. We are cage match
watchers and porno makers. We are insult comedians and competitors for alpha.
Our women are proud of their "bitch" status. Our men proud to screw them like
dogs and move on to the next yard. The remnant of our somewhat evolved self
pokes at our conscience with a stick but we are unmoved. We are cold and we
are cynical. We are ugliness and destruction shrink-wrapped in slick
packaging meant to convince us that what we are doing is glorious when it is
petty.
So is the experiment over? Or is this just an adjustment hiccup as we remove
the constraints of gender while figuring out who takes on which roles? Is
government the male now? Are we, the people to become the female? (Is that
why it feels like we're being grudge fucked?) If so, what about the children?
How do they fit in? Wherever we are headed, how our children are raised is
most certainly the key to getting there.
I've been asked many times who I think the Beast of Revelation is, and every
time I tell them the same thing. The Beast isn't a person. The Beast is a
system that urges on our animal nature in order to make beasts of us.
Welcome to the Beast. Guess it's time for a new experiment.
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