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The Spanking Gene
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The Autistic and the Blade Four
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Chapter Two
Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess
More of the Goddess and the art, and Eisler pointing out the patriarchal sort of errors that suffuse the archaeology world, how since Babylon, it’s all looked back at incorrectly, through modern, violent, patriarchal eyes. Eisler talks about choosing social models and I talk about choosing not to spank, saying that spanked people don’t really choose their social models, and also Neurotype, that not everyone is offered the same choices. My theory that if you don’t spank a born Dominator, they’ll have more options.
The opening continues the message that everything we hear about the ancient past, we hear from modern, Dominator sort of people with their attitudes projected backwards, I might say, seeing things their neurology sees, what the Spanking Gene sees: weapons, battles, and hunting, which I suppose is battles with animals. Our oldest historical texts about the deep past are from post-disaster, Dominator societies, the Babylonians, the Greeks and they all share that trait.
The “modern,” view of the last few centuries has been pretty much all that, it says the prevailing view is of “our cultural evolution as a linear progression from “primitive man,” to so-called “civilized man,” who, despite their many differences, shared a common preoccupation with conquering, killing, and dominating.”
They say we have a lot of later, interested hearsay – but we have the actual art, which tells a different story.
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Chapter Two
Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess
“Neolithic Art”
This section begins by telling us what is absent from Neolithic art and burials and it is war and warlords and weapons and victims. What is present is the Goddess and nature and plants and animals. But honestly, I’m not going to describe the Goddess religion, which seems to be the point of this chapter’s title, and I think they say this too: “religion,” isn’t really right. Everything really is connected, and for me, what I think we are trying to get at with reincarnation and rebirth is probably evolution, and that isn’t “religion,” either, that too is simply reality.
I suppose if there was ritual, then there was, “mythology,” but there was a large dose of reality first.
I think the disaster meant we moved from reality into mythology, period. And it might not matter what direction you take with your myths, when they all mean you are putting reality behind you. I mean, the direction is terrible, seems like straight down.
Oh! Whups, I guess I am talking about it, that’s the next section.
They end with saying that the obvious reason for the lack of war art was a lack of war and that the central image was of a woman giving birth, not as we have today, of a man being killed, and says it is not unreasonable to see we used to worship life and now we worship death instead, my words, the last bit.
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Chapter Two
Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess
“The Worship of the Goddess”
We begin by saying that the Goddess in more modern times and in the past appeared as both multiple and local, as in many female pagan goddesses, but also provides the original model for the monotheist’s gods, transcending all of that, which, somebody tell Moses, huh.
This remarkable religious unity across our Neolithic world they suggest as being because all were engaged in some level of agriculture, and that the Goddess, fertility and the creation of life is always the natural religion for that life, that we see it all over the world . . . and yes, I think life, birth and evolution is likely the original mindset of humanity, and probably all the other animals too if we could ask them. That basic mindset didn’t have to change to imagine farming.
Besides the Goddess herself, bull and snake motifs appear, and are also Goddess symbols, as well as the “waters of life.” I suppose this makes direct sense of the Ouroboros, and snakes generally as symbols of eternity and rebirth. The Goddess is shown giving birth to a bull in Catal Huyuk, the bull, like all things, is one of her children first, before he is the “male principle,” or anything. Ah, there it is, what I thought it was me saying earlier: religion was life, life was religion. Tacitly included in that thought is that today, they are different things.
Because one of them became fiction.
Again, intuition, I hope I can make a case later: the disaster was the invention of fictional mythology. OK, now, that I remember is the point of the book, the invaders come along with their war and patriarchy and made up male gods – so what I missed, the first time as well as so far this time, what I am always so childishly certain that is only me who knows (as a born Partnership sort), is that the older, Goddess mythology wasn’t fictional. This book left me feeling the first time around what all books do, that the good folks, the women, the progressives are asking for something they don’t think is real, that we want what is good, but deep down we don’t think that is real, because what I said earlier, Human Nature.
That would only be the Dominator good folks and women who think the Old Way was just another fiction, wouldn’t it? Partnership folks and Eisler had a better idea, maybe. I was on the wrong side of my own line calling it religion and I will say, it is not easy staying out of the everywhere Allistic thinking always.
Touché.
I thought the Goddess religion was offered as simply a better religion, I didn’t think it was just the evolved, organic truth of the world like I do now. I’m sorry, Dr. Eisler, I have lived my life telling myself no-one “gets it,” and you were included. I will say, that so far, in this reading, I haven’t seen a declaration of “factual,” regarding the partnership model’s ideology in the old world, only talk about what is better and worse. I mean, I haven’t seen anything derogative either, no ”just religion,” talk, that was me, and I’m sorry.
It is a matter of my Neurotype, perhaps, that I assume the worst, that what is fact and what is fiction doesn’t matter to people, but because of it, I think the entire conversation is framed as competing fictions and my mind doesn’t want to see it that way, I want the higher ground of better science than the other guys, not just the moral high ground. Again, I suppose it is all here, and this is where I got some of this thinking. I mean, most people not of my mindset are not slow to tell you, they are sure there are no real truths to be found, right? So of course that’s the framing for most folks, “just another religion.”
It’s not all me! It’s partly my mask, what I think you think, and I’m not always wrong about it!
I’m not clear what is necessary for Eisler to think, I’m not clear about their neurology, as I say, I had included her in all I argued with, but I haven’t been fair about it, and they don’t have to answer to me for the whole Allistic world’s assumptions. If I had to guess, I say they’re normal, and understand the people they’re writing to better than I do, but that doesn’t mean they don’t understand everything I worry about even if they don’t spell it all out.
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Chapter Two
Messages from the Past: The World of the Goddess
“If It Isn’t Patriarchy Then It Must Be Matriarchy”
This is several pages of the Goddess’ world, with evidences that men were not basically enslaved as women so often are since the trouble, I think I’ve said what I needed to about it, I agree, the point is, there was a pre-supremacy time that way, and anyways, were women bigger than men back then or something?
Not saying it can’t happen, but the whole world, and for a long time?
There is a paragraph, they say, “Again and again, we find that the debate about whether there was or was not a matriarchate, which still periodically erupts in academic and popular works, seems to be more a function of our prevailing paradigm than of any archaeological evidence.” – followed by talk of group dynamics, polarization, and binary thinking that they offer psychological insights about, mention logical fallacies –
– here I will only invoke Neurotype, every type has its list of fallacies and biases, in fact those are as close as we have to a definition of the typical, modern Neurotype in negative, Aristotle’s list of fallacies.
If I haven’t been clear yet, I think the modern sort of mind, the typical Neurotype, is a product of warrior genes, the Spanking Gene, and Aristotle’s list of errors comes with the gene. Of course there are positive things that come with it too.
The point of my silly sounding name for it is that the typical form has two modes, and that spanking is a sort of an on switch for the more aggressive one, a developmental mode switching mechanism, a stage in the life cycle of a warrior.
It’s still optional, apparently, otherwise why this stage? But on this theory, the modern sort seems to expect supremacy in their lives, maybe more so after their spankings.
They then offer that while in today’s world, the male figure is seen to normally have relationships of competition, of dominance and subservience more than today’s women are, but that even today, the primary relationship we all imagine for women is the live giving one, mother to child. A male god you expect that from, hierarchy and such, the Goddess we don’t, I mean, even today.
Ah, then we parse power, actualization power in the partnership model and domination power in the modern one, I like that very much, that is getting closer to evolution. It’s almost, “actuarial,” which is . . . everything, sort of, because again, it means evolution.
They end by saying we need to choose, or reverse our choice, that in dominator mode, we shall be warlike and find no peace, that if we wish for peace, we need do go the other direction. For my part, I say that “not choosing the dominator model,” is not how the question presents itself in real life, that it shows up in the very choice nearly all parents fail to make with any actuarial sense, the one not to spank. What is spanking besides raw, clear domination, force taught, early in life, to everyone?
That punchline to Chapter Two, our choice is just what I’m here to adjust, I think it’s more than a choice.
For a number of reasons.
Like I say, I think it’s a Neurotype matter, a matter of a gene with other priorities, not a mental, “model,” anyone is deliberately, consciously following.
Neurotype means every sort doesn’t really get all the options to choose from; everyone sees a different set of choices and also have different criteria to apply. It’s very counterintuitive. Life is exponentially more complicated when you realize the person in front of you is writing a completely different exam from the one you are.
It’s more than a model and a choice. These are different machines, somehow. I mean, yes, we need to make the right choice, but making that choice takes real changes and time. I say again, we make that choice when we spank or not, we affect the ability of the next generation to make a free choice as adults when we force the neurological change on them as children. It’s quite a puzzle.
In the near east and Europe, we can say that the people have been carrying the Spanking Gene since the Neolithic collapse, mostly since at least five thousand years now, and much of the world then only feeling the pressure since the Age of European Expansion, only five hundred years, and I suppose the whole world falls under one of these schedules, or somewhere between.
I’m not saying the solution requires five thousand years of reversing that evolution, of slowly going back the way we came. The epigenetic effect, not setting that option in every child’s life could begin immediately. If it’s a matter of a gene and so a Neurotype, the kids will still be born genetically that way, Allistic, but . . . with the gene inactivated, dormant. The peak of a wave, when forces cancel and change happens.
Wow, is this really what I think?
That’s why we write, to see our thoughts, isn’t it.
And yes, yes it is.
It hasn’t gotten old for me, it’s still a little mind blowing to me too, despite it’s what works for me.
Further, I think I have one of these children, I did not spank and tried to forbid everything about it. It’s complicated and confusing because I was not hatched, I didn’t know about Neurotypes, and all the kids self-diagnosed Autistic, so they won’t corroborate.
Maybe they’re right, we can’t talk long enough to ever get clear about anything, I’m afraid, I don’t suppose I’ll ever be certain. They’re not a fascist, FWIW. Sorry, that’s some tortured data, but it’s all I got. They think I’m part of the mean Old World, but at least they hate the mean Old World, that’s what I wanted.
That’s always been my plan, it was very well intuited from the start because everything I learn on this journey only makes it better, only makes more sense of it, it was always my plan, that if we didn’t beat the kids, they would have a better mindset and be better equipped to deal with the world than we ever were. .
Jeff
Aug. 16th., 2024
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The Spanking Gene 