The Spanking Gene
or
The Autistic and the Blade Five
Chapter Three
The Essential Difference: Crete
The beauty and mystery of Minoan civilization on Crete, Eisler talks about the art and the lack of fortifications – Crete was where the old world lasted longest, and this is a mystery in the normal world of Allistic science and history. I try to solve it, there is some theory, speculation about how the Minoans could have avoided the Spanking Gene, or that if they didn’t, perhaps they nonetheless didn’t activate it, per my epigenetics idea.
Gawd, I remember this. So far, seven pages of rubbing our modern, Dominator noses in the beauty of Crete, in what life is apparently supposed to be like.
In shame.
Like, Crete and the prehistoric world are what you get when you take the bonobo path to tech instead of the chimp one (not literal). Apparently the Goddess’ world didn’t include repressive clothing or censorship, and she offers science to say that when men and women see and share their parts more, that they are less alienated from one another.
The modern surprise and confusion regarding Crete draws the line between Partnership and Dominator modes, between whatever Neurotype or types came before and the modern majority variety we have now. I’m supposed to already be there, telling you about it and Autistic, it’s what I was looking for – and still, really?
Still unfortified, still worshipping the Goddess, still living in peace at home at least – fourteen, fifteen hundred years after the entire mainland had already fallen into stone walled cities and constant war? Anybody read that . . . Delaney thing? Aye, and Gomorrah? Sam must have been thinking about Crete. Wait, that was patriarchal as can be, never mind, a modern view, backwards to all the knowledge in the Chalice.
But other than that, the idea of a race of people living in peace and so competent they could hold off the warrior neighbours while they did it – did this happen? For a millennium and a half (from 3,500 BCE to around 2,000 BCE)?
Like I said, this is my agenda, and I still need to wrap my head around that, just wow. But yes, yes it did. Apparently Crete does this to everyone, I’m sure I’m not the first Autistic it’s blown away either.
There are a lot of ideas about why the rest of the world had adopted the warrior life, and a lot of them are about technical advancements and about “increased population pressure,” in the growing cities – and Crete had those same advancements and cities and no such consequence flowed from it for an age.
The subjugation of women, somehow explained by these factors failed to happen on Crete, despite sharing all of it. I have questions.
Since my idea of the disaster is the relatively sudden dominance of the modern Neurotype, an obvious question is, did the Minoans not breed with the warriors, not acquire the gene for the type that way, for a millennium and a half? Is a female bonded human nation automatically isolationist? I suppose if they weren’t subject to the wars, they weren’t subject to the way wars spread the warriors’ genes? No Dominators raped Cretan women, who weren’t disenfranchised and vulnerable?
Alternatively, they traded, if they intermingled, did the husbands move to Crete and adapt, like the males did in Sapolsky’s accidentally female bonded baboon troop?
Alternatively again, did they intermingle, acquire the gene and the type – but unconquered, did they not adopt the culture – of spanking? They don’t prove my theory that I failed to, do they, that un-spanked, the Spanking Gene is inactivated for warrior mode (Dominator mode), and relatively harmless?
For a millennium and a half?
Wouldn’t that be convenient for me. Also convenient though, I don’t think anyone else even has a theory for that, so there you go, you’re welcome. A better theory throws a wider net. Use the new ideas, they’re about the same old world, they’re only new to you. Remind me to put this at the end: if it doesn’t look possible from here, Crete also doesn’t look possible from here, and it didn’t from there either.
But it was. It happened. There were sections. Eisler ends this chapter asking the question and promising to answer, what was the disaster, just what happened five thousand years ago, and what does it mean?
Jeff
Aug. 16th., 2024
The Spanking Gene 