The Spanking Gene
or
The Autistic and the Blade Eleven
It’s a shot from The Life of Brian.
Here Eisler tells of the pushback, of repeated Partnership sorts of attempts to change the world, starting that even Greece was better than the slaughter and dark time that preceded it and going to the Christian movements. I suggest that the worst of the modern day warrior sorts seem to declare themselves a separate type of human and differentiate themselves from the people they abuse by saying the abused are “suited for it.” That the language of supremacy itself betrays that they have a sort of Neurodiversity theory too.
Chapter Nine
The Other Half of History: Part Two
These two chapters seem to describe a few counter movements, when the Partnership world put up a fight, they say Greece, as bad as it was, was softer and better for women than life among the previous invaders, and they say the early Christian movement seemed to gain some ground before being . . . assimilated, Dominatorized. Eisler even thinks a Partnership version of Christendom might have happened, that it could perhaps have gone the other way.
But of course they’re talking about history, and exceptional people, and I don’t think these movements indicate any real genetic threat to the drift. But it’s good to know Partnership people hadn’t simply disappeared yet.
They mention “The Pendulum Swings Back,” it’s the last section heading in Chapter Nine, and I guess I have to argue, steady drift, no soft, “social model,” pendulum, I’m afraid.
I would pay real money to learn Jesus said “turn the other cheek to your KIDS,” or that it’s in any of the Gnostic texts, THEN I might believe there was a possible change happening, something with power, because I have this idea about the epigenetic function of the environment of threat and violence in which the Dominator raises its children.
If you know something, please tell.
To my mind, the “pendulum,” is two things, the continued presence of the Neolithic Partnership genes, albeit partly diluted, followed by the continued drift of the aggressive Dominator genes along with their control over everyone’s evolution in that direction by imposing an environment of violence. I suppose they’re not wrong to say, “society,” was swinging back and forth, but of course there’s no “back,” with evolution, the Partnership genes swung forward some, and then the Dominator genes swung further forward, outgrew them again, I think, my nasty little system, mentioned previously.
I keep rereading these chapters, looking for some clear signs of a neurological change to make my case, but it’s all intrinsically weak, things do not cross the logical barrier of Neurotype with their meaning or power.
Perhaps a step back, perspective instead of trying to zoom in, something about how you’re either a Partnership or Dominator person, that if it were a social model, you’d expect most people to me somewhere in the middle rather than distinctly one or the other, like if it were a social model, you’d have a choice in the matter, but if it’s an evolved subtype, a Neurotype, less so, more born this way? Hmmm.
Something about the self-identifying way the Dominator likes to insist that women and the people they conquer are “born passive,” and so, “suited for slavery?” I mean, that they themselves seem to make declarations about being a different sort of human, separate themselves ideologically from less aggressive peoples?
Ah, I like that. It’s Neurotype because they themselves bloody say so, in not so many words, don’t they? Let’s quit, that’s a win.
(I’m trying to decide if I should comment from what is in my head from the Pesher Technique website, from the work of Barbara Thiering.
Perhaps only one small thing, that Peter, who Eisler has as an early male, Dominator problem in the nascent Partnership Christian church, also looks like a bit of a swine in the Pesher Technique, apparently setting himself up in the rising sun in a gold suit to sell himself as the god or some such rubbish. Ha.
Oh. Well.
Also, Jesus lived to a fairly ripe age and wrote some of those gospels himself and they really do date back to his life, but the stories of miracles are all surface fictions and he was a bit of a hustler. Thiering says he bucked the system because the circumstances of his birth made him not the official first born son, so the system wasn’t going to have him anyway. Perhaps as sometimes happens, he became a champion of women and the sick when he found himself on the outside looking in with them. Still, obviously, it was a Partnership understanding he had anyway. I sort of “believe,” the Pesher Technique, but not so as to shut anything else out.)
Jeff
Aug. 16th., 2024
The Spanking Gene 