The Spanking Gene

The Spanking Gene

or

The Autistic and the Blade Sixteen

Diagnosis and the Prescription

“The Diagnosis”

Since this section is already a summary in every book, I’m just leaving the excerpt in place. It really is the point.

“This is a thing I believe, and I think this is all science that brings me to believe it, that if we somehow managed to stop making our own environment a social Hell, it wouldn’t be one anymore, it would change, because we would change. If we grokked evolution, and sought better environments, rather than building nightmares to “deter,” something, we would be happily living in those better environs already.”

A fatal mutation, probably no older than ten thousand years, maybe only seven thousand even, and it is maybe over, I mean things are not looking good on the home planet. The very mindset that has destroyed the Earth for its conflicts and competition is in charge and not only not healing itself, it is actively suppressing every other sort of a mind, pathologizing diversity, which is life, only that. It tends to conformism instead, apparently determined to bring this thing to its logical end as quickly as possible.

It doesn’t seem we’ll ever know how it began, but it’s an aggressive gene or several, making its way through the human species by force since somewhere between seven and ten thousand years ago.

Parts of the New World, of the Americas seemed to have avoided it, or the full version of it until the Europeans found them, it seems the culture there follows a different pattern, perhaps less peaceful than we see Old Europe in places and times, but vast areas appear to never have simply turned full Dominator forever like it seems happened in Eurasia.

I never said, I suppose I had better, that it seems WEIRD (White, English, etc., I forget the rest, knowledge for the ruling race and religion, is the idea, here in America and Canada) that I’m focussed only on Europe and their New World, but Asia, India and China, Africa, I think these are all as written for the near east, these areas fell to the same waves as Europe and the near east, didn’t they? Perhaps great swathes of Africa and Asia are on the same schedule as the Americas, only under pressure since Europe stepped up their efforts at pushing the drift, I suppose this is true also even of the arctic, like Siberia? Ah, Australia would be part of the most recent attack too, of course.

Genetic drift is a near impossible puzzle, we have locked it up and swallowed the key. It’s a metapuzzle. The addict does not want to change; they are certain it’s their survival. If they don’t discipline their kids, they won’t be “strong,” enough to succeed and survive – but if they do, the kids won’t grok evolution and they won’t mind the Dominator lifestyle, for the most part, ninety percent of them.

I go too far, but you get it. I’ve edited four times, to say it so badly and apologize afterwards is the best I got, I’m afraid.

It’s not a loss for the normal people if we solve the problem of them. I know they seem to think so, but they are driving this bus straight off the cliff like no lemming would ever dream of (this bit of nature propaganda was surely Allistic/Dominator projection-as-science, same as “Alpha” wolves), this is what they are afraid to lose, this “control,” to drive off the cliff. OMG, Ha –

It’s the one about asking a person to understand what they’re paid not to again, isn’t it? We know we’re going over, but if we let someone else drive the bus we’re sure to lose our job.

Autistic, I see a plummet coming, but they seem to be excited about getting airtime. How dare you talk about pumping the brakes, say the new “leaders.” Like the coming trouble is a fight and if they go in hot, they can win. When you’re living with the Spanking Gene, every problem is a fight, it’s sort of the only language there is.

That’s on Aristotle’s list, isn’t it?

Let’s talk about “Human Nature.” It’s not what you think.

Nothing about being human is sitting still, it is not a created world where anything has a simple Platonic “Nature,” and things stay the same. It is evolution, this world, not “Natures.” If in some sense, you feel you have a “Nature,” well, One, it’s yours, as temporary as you are, and even more so for some people who have experiences that change them deeply from psychic ones to brain injuries. In evolution normally though, your Nature is not your parents’ Nature, but your own, we change.

Two, mostly what people mean by a shared “Human Nature,” is Neurotype.

Your Nature is how you think, right, not how you walk, or eat. Your “Nature,” is your Neurotype, and mostly, “Human Nature” is Allism, complete with the Spanking Gene; much of humanity shares a version of it, but not all.

The Human Nature in all the books and movies and TV and philosophy – all this. Autistics all at some point think of themselves as not human because of this, because we hear about Human Nature everywhere and always but we look inside and it is not there, despite we surely have some “Nature,” and we are absolutely no other species but human.

Not kidding.

I have an Autistic Nature.

Most folks have an Allistic one, we think, but this is more of a social fact than a scientific one, still, for the most part, we think they are what’s Neurotypical, we assume they are in the majority today, some think a super-majority, like ninety percent, and it seems to be true – but they haven’t really been defined, Allists.

The definition is “typical,” again, we think they are, and “not Autistic,” and OK, but don’t they have their own “istic?” I think my desk is also not Autistic, but surely Allism doesn’t mean you’re a desk? I’m only saying, we’ll have a better idea of how many of us are Allistic when we say what it is, what it means – which, it must be clear by now what I think, it means genetically Dominator, carrying some version of the human warrior genes, purpose built for a fight and struggling to calm itself.

I know I said, “same as my Dad,” but I am surely not identical, we grew up in different environments and I’m half Mom – so “an,” Autistic Nature is what I have.

I don’t know we’re all the same, we Autistics, we don’t say we are, most of us. That’s an Allistic meme, We are All the Same. They have differences too – but Neurotypes share a lot, personal histories and evolutions aside, the Allists mostly share the All the Same meme, it’s one of the traits, it seems to me. Makes the rest of us sort of invisible to them, and again, these are not written in stone, these types: spanking does this, spanking makes people invisible to people.

Types just means it works better on some than others, and again, types grow and fade, all is in motion in the un-created real world.

But the point is, “Natures,” are much smaller than people think, barely a lifetime in duration and everyone’s is not the same, and it’s not your soul, it’s just your brain. The world is evolution, all is in motion. In Partnership mode, we wouldn’t think “oh, they are just like that, Human Nature,” we would ask, what made them this way, where did THIS “Nature,” come from?

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Diagnosis and the Prescription

“The Prognosis”

Honestly, I am feeling pretty negative. We are already so far down the road of How did this happen and Shut up and drive the bus already that it’s hard to imagine why they wouldn’t have changed something already if they possibly ever could.

Like I said, my fear is that some few crawl out of the coming apocalypse to start again, but they are Dominators and start the same thing again. My mad dream is to leave them a roadmap, if any survive who can read it, this philosophy here.

If, however. If somehow the ones crawling out of the wreckage are Partnership sorts, then it would be another “start,” like the one that never happened, the one that simply came down out the trees to retrieve a dropped fruit, not to try to become the lion or something.

If, however.

If, if, somehow, some way, the reverse of the original disaster that happened somewhere between Gobekli Tepe and the “Kurgan,” cultures happened, if somehow there was some unimaginable set of circumstances that caused people to stop with the spanking and the whole human cult of punishment, like the above, the last few just happened to be Partnership sorts, some situation like the poisoning that took out Sapolsky’s troop of baboons’ alphas and left the group altered and peacefully bonding going forward for some time, if something like that should happen – then magic.

We could be back in the arms of the Goddess, back in the garden.

This is a thing I believe, and I think this is all science that brings me to believe it, that if we somehow managed to stop making our own environment a social Hell, it wouldn’t be one anymore, it would change, because we would change. If we grokked evolution, and sought better environments, rather than building nightmares to “deter,” something, we would be happily living in those better environs already.

I am curious to hear if that makes sense to anybody, if anyone from either side of the gene thinks that makes sense, that when a creature starts making their own environments, they are likely to adapt to them and wind up in some spiral of modifying their environment and adapting to it and modifying it again from their new “Natures,” ad infinitum. I mean, it’s a bit meta, as the kids say, but also sort of obvious, isn’t it?

I mean, you wouldn’t do it if you knew you adapted every time – but if you stopped believing in evolutionary change and kept on modifying your environment, then you would be in real trouble, wouldn’t you? I’m sorry to tell you, it’s not even just the religious ones, some static, “Human Nature,” rules the science too.

Again, it doesn’t bother people, somehow, despite we are living in the bad side of it, and if we saw it the other way, things could spiral out of control in the other direction – towards peace and sustainability and happiness. It is a strange proof of hope, our self created Hell on Earth, what’s the meme, a self created Hell presupposes a self created Heaven? It really does, or it does to my mind at least.

To put it another way, who could have bet, between the beginning of time and ten thousand years ago that some ape could kill a whole planet all by itself? Nobody, that’s who! And look at us!

Literally anything is possible in evolution.

People reject evolution, insist upon using bad to make good in the form of deterrents and punishments and cannot seem to make the connection between that bad self created environment and this bad old human being that wants to be a billionaire, it’s amazing to this Autist, how we can be so . . . disabled. But that’s Neurotype, some mix of super abilities, plain abilities and disabilities.

The irony can’t get any deeper than the death of a planet, can it, that we have the power to self create, and we’re using it, but we don’t think we have the power and so we don’t use it for good. Also, there is no other sort of creation, self creation is all there is, so this debilitating mindset was also self created, somehow, like I say: we sort of threw away the key, but again, nothing is created, nothing is static, that is merely another level of complexity, and we could regrow the key.

But we do have to, it’s what’s not viable, you can’t fight evolution and thrive, not for long.

Humans are able to set up their own little perceptual “environments,” and live quite unnaturally within them, providing their own artificial feedbacks, reinforcements and hazards within these manufactured spaces of perhaps cultural evolution but definitely of social constructions and of rules, of law and punishments – but they lose the feedback of the real world in the process, and this again, is what is not actually viable. Seven to ten thousand years is perhaps a long time for an unworkable adaptation, but you have to give us credit, we’re not just taking ourselves out here.

It’s a bloody short time in which to take everything out, probably, wouldn’t you think? Much of the world is paying for our borrowing from reality this way before we have to, but every one of them makes our ultimate payment nearer and more certain.

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Diagnosis and the Prescription

“The Prescription”

I can’t be the first in what, thirty seven years to want to switch feminists from worrying about women to worrying about children, surely? But I suspect I’m first one with such an elaborate argument about it, aren’t I?

I’ve tried telling people they oughtn’t spank; that’s no plan, me running around telling people, telling parents. It’s actually harmful, more often than not, the gene has a defense mechanism, that when you complain about it to parents, the kids get it harder next time.

Like I said somewhere, you need a lot to know why, and there’s just too much. I’ve scaled back my dreams of this from talking to everyone, parents, to trying to reach my fellow Autistics with it – and maybe the priestly elites of the secular Word, some of which are surely Divergent sorts and might hear something in it others won’t. Of course that’s not a safe place to put anything in such times either, and they are already being controlled or supressed. But you have to put it out there, every person it reaches is another chance for it to somehow survive and propagate. In the next cycle, if there is one.

That’s my plan, to tell science, sort of, tell the teachers, let them try to tell people.

Plus, I have high toned ideas about how having the moral high ground is not meaningful to someone like Nietzsche, for whom the pit of Hell is the ultimate moral high ground and that we need for Partnership to take the SCIENTIFIC high ground, to be the default, for Partnership to be “Human Nature,” not some temporary intervention between ourselves and the Allistic “Human Nature.” As it was during most of our existence, as it still is for some.

This means to understand kindness, and to demand an explanation for violence instead, the Search for Why Cruelty, instead of the supposed Search for Altruism, like they’ve never seen it or something.

But, hey, Neurotype, they don’t see it, that’s the point.

Just because many can’t hear me doesn’t mean that any plan that doesn’t involve not spanking is ever going to work either, mind you. Interestingly, that’s a feature of spanking, it happens anyway when nothing was ever going to “work.”

I mean, I got nuthin’, same as everybody else, something Needs to Happen that isn’t Happening. For me, it’s that the Allistic somehow needs to see their self in motion, in evolution, and I know, mine is as rainbows and lollipops as everyone else’s. It’s a very short loop: if they stopped spanking, they could see it; if they could see it, they’d stop spanking, I think. Probably not all of that in the first generation, either, but the epigenetic factor ought to be dramatic immediately too.

If, if, if.

The only thing, free with all utopian ideas, always there for the desperate, is that nothing happens that no-one was able to think of first, that just thinking it is always the first step, and we’re doing that now, you and I, if I managed to pull you along some. If I have this framing right, and if it’s better, and some people think it, what else can we do, that’s how things begin, tiny, fragile, and hopeless. I mean things that aren’t violence, that’s how GOOD things begin.

Really, all I would change, is focus on the children and stop the epigenetic change. Nothing you say or do about adults is going to have any real effect if we do not change that. So we’re back to education, trying to talk the “Parental Rights,” people out of their religion that tells them to beat the children, we are full circle, back to the pointlessness, same as everybody else, all I have is if, if, if.

Still, just because many can’t hear me doesn’t mean that any plan that doesn’t involve not spanking is ever going to work either, mind you. It’s still the only plan.

I honestly thought I was so different that it might be different, that I might succeed where every other mind in history has failed, in giving humanity a plan, a way forward, but I’m not that special, not the only one, there are many of us and there always were and many of us Autistics have tried before too, of course. I mean, I’m still not just giving it up to “Human Nature,” so it was a better try than some, not pride, I lived during the very peak of human knowledge, it was all there for someone who couldn’t be told how to read it, for the ultimate contrarian, for someone who looked inside and didn’t see the Human Nature they all talk about in the first place.

But we’re still here. Same as that Allistic warrior mode still requires the epigenetic on switch, that fact alone is a bit of real, physical hope. What’s that, two tiny attractors for hope? No, three, there is the on switch, the continued existence of Partnership genes, and there is this bit of speculation, that if this is real knowledge, or as close to real knowledge for Autistics as Allistic knowledge is as close to real knowledge for them, and it works for anyone, that changes the world slightly.

Still weak, I know.

What do you want, a call to arms? That would be Donald Sutherland at the end of the movie, only a happy ending for the invader.

Weak is the Partnership way; strength is the road to Hell.

That’s the first thing.

But the second thing is that those three weak things seem to have been what the Minoans knew and it stopped their world from turning full, fatal Dominator for more than a millennium, for what, seventy-five generations while fully under attack by Spanking Gene the whole time, surrounded by it. So they’re not nothing.

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Jeff

Aug. 24th., 2024