The Spanking Gene
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The Autistic and the Blade Six
Image: By Detlef Gronenborn, Barbara Horejs, Börner, Ober – htps://www.academia.edu/9424525/Map_Expansion_of_farming_in_western_Eurasia_9600_4000_cal_BC_update_vers_2021_1_, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104934771, from Wikipedia. It’s the “Agricultural Revolution,” the expansion of farming.
More about the end of Crete, the Bronze age collapse, before we go back to the Neolithic collapse under the invaders during the fifth and sixth millennia BCE. Eisler busts the usual explanations for why things turned to fairly constant war, the “increased population in the cities,” the “improved weaponry,” of the Copper and Bronze ages and replaces them with the invasions and the culture the invaders brought with them, and of course, I adjust “culture,” for “genetics.”
Dark Order Out of Chaos: From the Chalice to the Blade
My method has improved, when I began, I think I stopped reading to write every invasive thought, and lately I’m at least reading the whole chapter first, and then going back and doing that – I say this to say I’m falling off of that wagon, we run into the chaos stuff again in the fourth section, six pages in, so I’m going to treat the first part carrying on with my train of thought before I let that stuff completely derail me.
We begin with some plain round dates, and it eases some of my earlier worries. They say the Paleolithic period goes back thirty thousand years (I think the Dawn of Everything extends this view by an order of magnitude, I believe we are speaking of hundreds of thousands of years of human culture, textiles, etc., these days, of what perhaps should be renamed on some other vector than “lithic,” pre-lithic or something, but sure). They say the “Neolithic age agricultural revolution was over ten thousand years ago, maybe that’s the number that stuck with me, for me, “over ten,” could be fifteen in such matters for me, probably because I know nothing of the details.
Cities, at least Catal Huyuk, were founded eight and half millennia ago.
Crete fell only thirty-two hundred years ago, I assume the point there is that the last of the Neolithic civilizations only fell thirty-two hundred years ago. I may have missed it, did they change before they fell, in the what, eight hundred years between their fifteen hundred year holdout and the fall?
I’d best read back. That’s a long fall, that can’t be right.
OK, no, the Goddess still ruled in 1,400 – 1,500 BCE despite a regime change and foreign domination, what’s that, thirty-six hundred years ago, I’m down to a four hundred year fall, rather than the full cultural change. I saw it again, can’t believe I doubted: there were no fortifications found on Crete.
If those people have been assimilated into the Dominator world, they didn’t assimilate and win, building their own empire of stone and bronze, they faded away or dispersed? I’m not sure what this means for my genetic ideas, I suppose it suggests a diaspora, there are no longer whole nations of Partnership model people, just a few, scattered about the globe, possibly still running from the violent genetic drift of the Dominators.
The final fall of Crete was the same Bronze age collapse got everybody, isn’t that the same time, 1,200 BCE?
When the Goddess disappeared, the whole western world fell apart.
(Weird idea: the Minoans, newly in Dominator mode, newly traumatized having lost their battle for the soul of the world and the good life, lose their goddam minds – and they are the Sea People of the Bronze age collapse, absolutely raging out on the world, newly Allistic, like a baby viper that doesn’t know it doesn’t have to keep pumping all of its venom into you – is THIS what you wanted, Babylon? Egypt? Is THIS what you love? Be careful what you ask for! . . . sorry.
As always, I go too far, but maybe? A little? OK, never mind. I think they’ve found where they tarred those black ships anyway and it wasn’t Crete. Still, a forced diaspora and then a meltdown? I guess if I’m getting psychological, I prefer the first idea, the whole world melted down when the Goddess disappeared, not just the Minoans– but that’s the recent time it fell apart, we are supposed to be looking at the beginning of the disaster right now, not the end of it, aren’t we.)
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Chapter Four
Dark Order Out of Chaos: From the Chalice to the Blade
“The Peripheral Invaders”
Apparently, the trouble started seven thousand years ago, with violent incursions as well as natural disasters – these I assume mean global warming, the floods that all the cultures remember, drought . . . I don’t think volcanoes and earthquakes move populations around much. In many places, the traditional pottery disappears, indicating the people or the culture disappears. “Bit by devastating bit,” it says, over perhaps a millennium, everything stops, the advancement of civilization stops in its tracks.
When, two thousand or more years later, it rises again, it rises in stone, in Sumer and Egypt.
They talked about “Aryans,” and “Indo-Europeans,” I think these terms are better suited to language talk, that’s where they come from, isn’t that right? – but before these cultures came to India or Europe they came from “the north,” or from, “the deserts of the south,” which, is that Africa and Arabia? Before that, the origins of the people who replaced the Neolithic peoples seem to be lost in time, but it’s interesting that different peoples, from the north as well as the south, arrived with the same attitude. They suggest some look for a connection between the cultures of these northern Eurasian invaders and the southern ones, like the Hebrew tribes.
I guess my idea prefers contact to parallel evolution for this too.
It says they came for the good life and the better weather, suggesting that the harsher conditions they lived in – squeezed out of the lush zones by farmers? – hardened them somehow.
There is some suggestion that life in the bad weather, where the earth is less amenable to cultivation somehow brought violent power to the centre of their lifestyle, somehow made for Dominator people. I think they are suggesting that some great famine disaster set them all against one another, and once the fighting started, well, then we’re fighters, and raising little fighters, is my point, adapting to the fight. I mean that because evolution doesn’t stop, that somehow, somewhere, some population got caught up fighting for enough generations and lost enough poor fighters that they became genetically and epigenetically fighters, lost something, or somehow grew a gene for that and it is irresistible and once begun is not easily stopped.
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Chapter Four
Dark Order Out of Chaos: From the Chalice to the Blade
“Metallurgy and Male Supremacy”
One of the technologies that was supposed to have caused these negative changes was metalwork, because it made better weapons, but of course it began among the Neolithic peoples with jewelry and tools, and metalwork too went through a repurposing for the new life, so it wasn’t causative.
Ah, OK, Eisler actually busted my guess about animal husbandry (since removed), that’s another thing that happened in “the west,” in the Neolithic without causing any nasty big changes, and only came later, with the dominators and their herds.
Creeping up on me is the Brave New World idea, that while our Neolithic people were enjoying their good life in the lush valleys, they were squeezing nomadic people out of the world (a process that has not yet ended, but any minute now), that the bright side of this paradise must perhaps have a dark side after all and that is what came back to bite us all between ten and five thousand years ago.
But how, with no weapons and no fortifications? I suppose that is me trying to apply Dominator psychology, and not what applied at the time?
If the Neolithic world was as good as it sounds, I suppose they must have never stopped accommodating migrating people, must have allowed them access and passage, and again, the Dominators imposed the conflict on the nomads, not the previous folks, by building their fences and walls? I mean, the Neolithic may not have had stone walls, but surely the animals required wooden fences? It brings to mind a picture the Davids painted in The Dawn of Everything, of cities being seasonal, empty half the time, while the people hunted and gathered (in summer?), perhaps our Neolithic farmers and our nomads were all one big happy family somehow.
Must have been.
But a major point in this chapter for me is what’s missing, we do not know when or where, or among whom the domination of the Spanking Gene and the modern Neurotype began.
I’m still hoping to gather enough to clues to tell myself at least why and how, wherever and whenever it was originally, from their ideas about how and why and exactly what happened when it happened in or “west.” It suddenly occurs that we can also perhaps draw from what we know of how it happens most recently, still today, to the last few Indigenous peoples.
That will be another project, likely not mine.
Next, it seems we are going to talk about the transformation.
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Chapter Four
Dark Order Out of Chaos: From the Chalice to the Blade
I mean, must we?
I can’t remember if it horrified me the first time I read it like it’s doing this time, I don’t want to tell you about it, I feel like I’m sharing poison. Overnight, with the arrival of these other cultures, life goes from something like paradise to something like Hell, from peaceful farming to genocide as the new social norm.
Eisler makes a point to say that the invaders, “were not a different species. But . . . they brought with them an entirely different system of social organization.” – and I must invoke genetics and Neurotype, not a different species, no, but we are not all the same between the ears either, a different “Neurospecies,” meaning Neurotype is not to be ruled out; they exist. Again, do we humanists think something other than peoples’ brains makes their system of social organization? It can’t be anything like species, because it must be unconnected from biology?
In place of the Goddess, the shrines have either armed male soldier gods, or simply a sword on the altar, like it is the new god. I . . . it’s hard to understand, I’ll say that.
I don’t get it. I’m a self diagnosed Autistic, I sort of discovered “my people,” in The Dawn of Everything, in Kandiaronk and his people, in the Columbian Critique, in what they thought of the Europeans, I mean, I don’t want to pretend that is an established fact, that the Turtle Islanders were not for the most part Dominators either, it’s complicated. It’s hard to not count the Incas, etc., and such among the Dominators. I think the picture the Davids painted was of the Turtle Islanders riding a line, falling in and out of empire, perhaps there is more than the binary and the change isn’t always so stark as it was in our past in “the west.”
Maybe the Indigenous really did, or do have Two Wolves inside of them, like the teaching, two living, growing wolves.
I mean, I think I’m not a Dominator. I was educated by them, I’m still working through that, as you see, it’s the Dominator world they teach – but it never fit my Autistic mind. I think I am a Partnership Human. Nothing about the Dominator model makes any sense to me. I think Dominator mode is likely a suite of genes and a Neurotype, and it was not a sea change, not a hundredth monkey event where everybody changed, rather it runs in families and it has missed some families, comes up recessive in some people. They haven’t killed us all yet.
I suppose they have us down to a manageable level, though. It looks, I fear, like genetic drift, violence is irresistible. Perhaps the world will end before it’s complete. Perhaps the post apocalyptic Adam and Eve will be Indigenous, or Autistic, or otherwise Partnership sorts and we can have a peaceful start again. How quickly I shut out the awful truth and start spewing utopian dreams, huh. I am sorry. I confess, the other fantasy is what haunts me, that two people crawl out of the nuclear destruction to try to rebuild humanity, but they are normal Dominator sorts and beat that first child of the new world into being just like them and nothing will ever be different. Sorry.
But oh my God, was it stark that time, in the fourth millennium BCE. The Neolithic people were simply slaughtered. Again, civilization falls back, art disappears, for a millennium, and the cities are fortified or gone. I don’t want to write more, it’s one thing emotionally to listen to someone else say it, it’s another thing to think it yourself, I don’t want to, I sort of can’t afford the negativity.
Apparently, the invaders kept the women and killed the men, ensuring the genetic drift.
Following up on earlier speculations, yes, the Minoan/Mycenaeans began to adapt and join the world of war, but again, then the whole world fell apart and the Greek culture wiped out the last of the Minoans just before the Bronze age collapse.
We end the chapter with the observation that the “west,” and Crete seemed to have been the last to fall, and that the world is full of refugees looking for a safe place to land that no longer exists anywhere.
God, this was a sad chapter in the book and in the story of humanity, I am sorry to share it, even without the gory details.
I guess I haven’t yet seen any clues to a true genesis for this Dominator business, who these “Kurgan,” invaders got it from, or how it came into the world initially. It occurs that perhaps someone has some idea how the madness began in the Americas, that maybe there is a clue a little closer to the present when a culture turned itself Dominator?
Again, a different project.
I have said before, not that anyone reads me, and it’s been a few years: I don’t know how it starts, but I do know how it is maintained, and that is through punishment, through spanking and law, that Dominator culture does not fade, because it abuses its own people first. I mean, between the actual wars. I am certain that these invaders, slaughtering whole towns, were not nice to their children either, in fact I’m certain that their young led the way into every battle less afraid of the enemy before them than of their own silverback father generals behind them. I don’t know how it started, but child abuse spreads it and keeps it going. An environment of violence sets the kids’ warrior genes to the “war,” positions. Look into your heart; you know it’s true. Look who wants fewer Human Rights but more “parents’ rights.” Haters, right?
Jeff
Aug. 16th., 2024
The Spanking Gene 