The Spanking Gene
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The Autistic and the Blade Fourteen
Eisler lists some fears of future dystopia scenarios, should we not turn things around – and I bust the idea as fantasies of the Spanking Gene, that no such control is possible in the real world where people do not remain constant but are forever adapting and changing, and as an example, such attempts at nightmarish control in the last century are what we now call a century of simply chaos and war that no-one is claiming to have had any control over.
We do not discuss overpopulation. I offer a simple, logical argument about the logic of spanking and punishment. Eisler mentions “the power of myth,” and I add the caveat that this power is dependent on there being a resonant string in your brain, that brains make myths, myths don’t make brains.
The Breakdown of Evolution: A Dominator Future
This chapter seems to be more dire futurism, it opens with telling one Norbert Weiner’s vision of insect societies and says that we will not enjoy being stuck in our castes and functions but that this seems to be where Dominator society is taking us, and I think it’s an out of date image, ants aren’t maybe mindless for all of that and caste perhaps means something like Neurotype, something evolved for, not something forced on them.
But also, about the warnings of an insect-like, mechanical society – it’s time for another theory from the Divergent Side, another me only one: about how dystopian dreams are fantasies, because again, evolution. No sci-fi, stable dystopia is coming, because the pressures that are required to make that happen change people continually, these fears of frozen totalitarian states are nonsense, no such stability, good or bad can ever be achieved because the people change under torture and from delivering torture, it doesn’t stop, evolution doesn’t stop if the stressors don’t stop.
What you get is mass meltdowns, probably a war. Didn’t the people in the same clothes think that was what they were doing last century? THAT’S what happens. I think it’s the same cycle Eisler talks about, the anti-woman propaganda then a war, and the same failure: they don’t get what they’re aiming at, the “control,” they just get a meltdown.
Again, the Dominator’s faith in their methods is erroneous and this fear is a part of it. Control is a Dominator myth, while the utter loss of it seems to be the reality of the Spanking Gene.
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Chapter Twelve
The Breakdown of Evolution: A Dominator Future
“The Insoluble Problems”
Of course we would be doing well to thrive as long and as well as ants have, and Weiner’s talk of how it’s mindless for them, but not for us is silly, just more of the nineteenth century “rational man,” nonsense. Good Lady, this sentence: By contrast, we humans can if necessary change our patterns of behaviour very fast, even instantly, BY USING OUR VASTLY SUPERIOR MINDS.
I’m sorry, pausing to laugh, then cry. I’ll be back in a minute.
Has our fellow ever MET humans?
Eisler continues that to do so however requires that we perceive the feedback, interpret it correctly, and then actually use the data to make a change, all of which, sorry, still crying a little. But the very first thing, each step really, is a matter of genetics and Neurotype, mostly the first thing, perception. It’s your brain that decides what you can or cannot perceive, and you can’t tell people what to perceive.
This section then goes on to a thing still in fashion at the time, overpopulation and population, “control.” People have in this millennia decided that it is no longer cool to talk about it, because it only means genocide, and I’ve never been entirely convinced either way, but a few things:
First, some have said it is exactly the threat of hunger and of war and genocide that causes people to breed like rabbits, that we outbreed threats, or try to. Certainly that is what the nations outlawing contraception and abortion are trying to do, breed their way to dominance, as a response to stress and competition (sure, from each other).
Second, whether it was right or wrong to talk about it before, we are not going to engage with “overpopulation,” in the middle of a global culling plague, are we? No, we are bloody not. Someone is already working on that, so to speak.
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Chapter Twelve
The Breakdown of Evolution: A Dominator Future
“Human Issues and Women’s Issues”
Meh, I got nuthin’, I mean nothing new. Children’s issues, even more so, because of the epigenetic thing, but of course. The issues of the “least of us,” are human issues, all of our issues. We are nearing the end of the Chalice and Eisler is reiterating what they’ve told us already – and I fear I’m running out of corrections to make.
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Chapter Twelve
The Breakdown of Evolution: A Dominator Future
“The Totalitarian Solution”
I’m sorry, same as the last one, I mean, the same, or I have to write you another Divergent theory, the Punishment Cult, and the logical reversal, and I don’t want to, so I’m going to do it really quickly and poorly.
Punishment is a little bad for a greater good, bad for good – it’s a reversal, a logical reversal, and your brain wants to drop it, but we are not allowed, it is literally forced upon us, the logical reversal, and then these two forms of “logic,” exist in conflict and the new one using force, changes the environment in favour of itself and grows until the old logic, that good is good, is forced out.
This is drift, whether it is genetic or not, the force. But it is genetic.
Eventually, in the mind, and in society, bad is the new good, and there is no will and no money for anything but bad, punishments and deterrents. Feeding people is not bad, so by the logic of the Punishment Cult, no good can come of it, only pain and deterrents can control us, this is the Punishment Cult. They are passing laws in America against giving people food and water and this is not irony, this is happening.
This is how we can even speak about a totalitarian “solution,” because where bad is the only good, death is a “solution,” and we are again, right back with the “Kurgan” chieftains. Punishment takes you there. Ironically, perhaps, it is the grownups, the authorities who drive us to this violent nihilist evolution, not some criminal element, always: those who would “control,” our evolution de-evolve first, and take the rest of us with them, for the simple evolutionary reason that the “deterrent,” they offer the “criminals,” is their own life, their own real environment, and it shapes them.
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Chapter Twelve
The Breakdown of Evolution: A Dominator Future
“New Realities and Old Myths”
As the example of modern totalitarianism, they’re talking about Nazis, and their propaganda, the symbolism. They mention the “power of myth,” and again, no, this is top down, what power has a myth got if it isn’t a match for your brain? Propaganda pulls you along by the stuff already in your brain, it doesn’t rewrite you. Myths are not social models, they are expressions of Neurotype, expressions of the brain.
I didn’t think that was something from biology, isn’t that Jung?
Not sure how my social scientists missed that. At the end, they mention the Dominator’s weird faith in the blade, in their violence to fix anything, like it ought to be bizarre that a world war is entered into as a “solution,” for anything, I always thought violence was the scourge of this nasty old world, it’s very alienating to see people thinking the opposite. But I have an idea about the faith, it’s a policy, and the faith is based in the stuff I’m on about, the genetics, the epigenetics, that even if the obvious problems are not fixed, or even get worse, we all “got stronger,” or something, for “next time,” or something.
Jeff
Aug. 16th., 2024
The Spanking Gene 