The Spanking Gene

The Spanking Gene

or

The Autistic and the Blade Thirteen

Here we are almost home in the modern age, starting with the European Enlightenment (by the Turtle Islanders, per The Dawn of Everything), and suggesting that a fine task for us today would be to compete that job, the enlightenment, carry any momentum it had for Partnership forward. For my part, I try to apply the same genetic ideas to this Age of European expansion that I tried to with the previous events. I have an argument abut education, that you can’t just teach people anything, it has to match their genes and their brains, their types, and that the arc of society does not follow what the teachers teach, it only follows their methods, which are an environment of abuse that causes adaptations that make some sorts of ideas more likely than others. There is more theory about Neurotype, and a few more theories based in my Divergence, from conservatism, to freedom fighting, to whether feminists spank.

Chapter Eleven

Breaking Free: The Unfinished Transformation

“Ours was to be the modern era, the Age of Reason.” Eisler says in her opener, and yes, it was, wasn’t it. The aforementioned Enlightenment, with the travelling abilities of the written word – I suppose we learned then and are learning again now with the internet, lies travel faster than real knowledge, these mass media have not been as helpful as they might have been in a Partnership world, of course this is true of a lot of things.

There is a lovely sentence and paragraph listing many male names, philosophers and scientists as the “prophets of the secular Word.”

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Chapter Eleven

Breaking Free: The Unfinished Transformation

“The Failure of Reason”

Unfortunately, things did not change all that much when we stopped calling ourselves semi divine and started calling ourselves, “rational,” child abuse and exploitation and war either continued or increased due to improvements in tech. It seems, even Nature was taken down another step, as perhaps no longer officially God’s creation or something.

This, perhaps, has people in revival, turning back to what they think of as “old ways,” meaning religion. This section ends suggesting that it’s not over, the Enlightenment, and that our task is to get it over the line, complete the positive changes we glimpsed then, and . . . OK. That’s a step in the right direction. There is some hint in history, perhaps in The Dawn of Everything, that the Columbian Critique is the first time Europeans heard of not spanking, like the first time they ever even thought it was a thing, along with the other more famous memes of other sorts of equality.

I think I have heard it elsewhere, from psychology people, that we think spanking is new, like it STARTED in the Enlightenment, along with the nations states – this is what I interpret as Europeans first learning the words, spanking, child abuse, not the behaviour. Again, ever seen the Bible? I want to be even snarkier, but I’ll leave it at that.

I would have to say, if that idea, that beating children is wrong got lost in our Enlightenment, that was another androcratic coup. It may be fair to say that children are always the first bargaining chip the modern, wannabe Partnership people give away, in favour of women, in favour of a racial issue perhaps, and I’m here to say, that is the entire game, really.

That’s why Partnership never wins, because it doesn’t reach the children, who need it most, and who are epigenetically transformed into Dominators by spanking. If we knew this, wouldn’t it change everything?

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Chapter Eleven

Breaking Free: The Unfinished Transformation

“The Challenge to the Androcratic Premises”

Apparently the Columbian Critique was not well known, what was so clear in The Dawn of Everything, and we see the Enlightenment beginning among the women of European society – no conflict, one and then the other, it would appear to make sense that the possibly pre- (or post-) androcratic attitudes of the Turtle Islanders would find more fertile ground among the women of Europe, rather than the men.

It makes a difference in terms of biology or not, however, in terms of getting the bigger picture in focus, that if it really sprung from the minds of European women, then there is no genetic connection, no biology, no evolution – just a steady, forever division of people living between Dominator and Partnership models, as though the whole story never happened, the peaceful Neolithic and the disastrous invasions.

When these ideas came back from the only just contacted people of the New World though, then we were talking about different sorts of people, evolution and possibly Neurotype.

I mean, women, yes, but let’s acknowledge the Turtle Island people for people reasons too, not just for my argument.

The talk about how women gaining status in the home averted revolutions – is this supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing? Women gained a little breathing room, so monarchy still? I have a sense that what women gained in this social shift was something children lost, not men. Power is inherently corrupt, if the men gave the women any, it was on the condition that they hurt someone with it probably, it usually is. Ah, there it is – not only children – domestics and slaves, right, your ruling culture women need some power to rule their slaves.

Surely that correlation has already been refuted or established. Anyone? Did women gain status when England started with the African slavery?

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Chapter Eleven

Breaking Free: The Unfinished Transformation

“The Secular Ideologies”

Capitalism as liberalism, that’s hard to see anymore, better than feudalism, that’s getting harder to see anymore . . . there is some nod to equality about it, but something isn’t equal. Ah, it’s a group inequality still, not the king, but the whole capitalist class we have to deal with now, it’s an equality only for the androcrat, only for the competitive, that’s some first generation equality, ah, Eisler said, this equality is just for the men, true enough.

Ha, again, I got my entire schtick from Dr. Eisler, from this book, they list all the major progressive movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, abolitionism, pacifism, anarchism, anticolonialism, etc., and makes the point that all these “separate,” issues have a single enemy, all the same problem they are fighting, the Dominator, the androcrat, the Allistic, spanked and in warrior mode.

Ah, mention of the new Dominator philosophers, Nietzsche, I think I already did, but it bears repeating a little differently, that Eisler says Nietzsche reflects the Dominator “social model,” in its most glaring light. I will say again that Nietzsche didn’t pull that stuff out of the world around him, they pulled it out of their brain, their clearly Allistic, spanked and in warrior mode brain.

Nietzsche is a matter of Neurotype.

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Breaking Free: The Unfinished Transformation

“The Dominator Model of Human Relations”

I think following the book is keeping me in the proper format for a book, someone once told me that a lesson is three iterations, you tell them what you’re going to tell them, then you tell them, and then you tell them what you told them and the third time it’s supposed to sink in, and clearly Eisler can stick to some such plan, if I can’t by myself.

They said this section heading at the start and I argued then, we do not form our relationships on social models, it’s the other way about. Our relationships make our society and our social models. I don’t hate everything about Chaos theory, it is a fractal sort of a shape – but there is an hierarchy of causality, and it is bottom up, creatures add to form societies, societies do not create their members.

I mean, the Dominator society tries to mold us, it spends all its energy trying, but we are not molded, we are not the supposedly intended shape, we are only abused by the attempt, which is not counterintuitive, because Dominator society only knows one way to mold you and abuse is the way. We are even mostly all the same shape, but not the intended one, not unless the intended shape was an ungovernable xenophobic child abuser forever cycling into war. Not the ostensibly intended one.

Of course the result is “no-one’s fault,” it’s just Human Nature. So all that control does nothing, apparently, that’s the science: does the environment DO anything, and the majority answer is, No, it does not. It is a weird thing to say, the majority doesn’t apparently believe in the environment. Again, evolution is magic, Neurotype looks like bloody magic, and the modern, normal peoples’ science is very skewed.

I’m afraid I’m trying to say that, “social models setting the format for human relationships,” is a Dominator/androcracy/authoritarian idea, top down. Partnership life would start with the relationship.

Again, none of these are gotcha moments on Eisler or anyone else, because Neurodiversity didn’t exist in our minds when this book was written, and it’s not difficult to form these sorts of opinions when it’s not your Neurotype, to say, “that’s an Allistic (Dominator) meme,” anymore than for an Allistic to say, “Autistics generally don’t like noisy crowds,” or something.

Plus, I’m twenty years late to be among the first people making this connection, at least. I mean, I feel if I had known about myself and about Neurodiversity, I could have shown up with this twenty years ago. Thirty, and surely someone else had that information.

Honestly, I have not yet found the authors who talk about Allism this way, the whole world and many Autists only talk about Autism as a thing, and Allism remains simply the norm. Not every Autist is the God’s Fool, Partnership sort either I am given to understand, and so most don’t maybe see the world divided this way, like Eisler and I do, so I’m late by my own self critique, but I still may be in a small minority to think it at all, it’s hard to know.

But when you discover or invent “types,” when you have a system of types, everyone has one, everyone goes in it somewhere. Divergent minds prove that all minds are limited and made for purpose. Allism became a thing the second Autism did – just the world of Allistic science didn’t seem to notice.

Autistic science is going to notice them.

Here, I am normal, and Allists and Dominators are Divergent.

The only “definitions of Allism,” I see are brief and technical, etymology – or jokes, people turning texts about Autism upside down and laughing at Neurotypical foibles, at how they treat Autistics – but the internet doesn’t work anymore either, they could be out there, people talking seriously about it right next door and you’d never know. I’d never know, anyway.

Maybe it’s a group gotcha moment, a gotcha for most of the world’s Neurotype, who think they’re the only Neurotype?

Ah, they’re making a case that the gender supremacy model is the first one and that it gets mapped onto every other marginalized group, that the enmity the androcracy has for women is the one that transfers to every other sort of target in the warrior society – and that’s close to what I’ve been saying, close to what I have been calling my Antisocialization theory, except there is still one lower level in this fractal chain of causality, children. That’s the base unit, and today’s women are mostly Dominator women if that is not the way it looks to them, if they don’t see the importance of what happens to children as central to it all.

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Breaking Free: The Unfinished Transformation

“Forward or Back?”

They say that once we get past the terms, “liberal,” and, “conservative,” and see things in the larger division of Dominator vs Partnership, things will be clearer – and this seems like time for another one of my Neurodiversity theories, like the one about origin stories, this one about, “conservatism.”

It’s an Allistic meme too, it’s supposed to mean, “keeping things the same,” but things are never the same, the world is not the static creation of some fiction, it is evolution, constant motion – so Conservatism “conserves,” a rate and direction of evolutionary change. This is why our institutions, “fail,” in times of fascist meltdown, because they are built on an assumption of stasis that doesn’t exist and the people that make up the institutions evolve, or rather, de-evolve, as the case may be, at the “conserved,” rate and in the “conserved,” direction.

The cycles of war, that’s what being “conservative,” means. Hold as tight as you dream you can and it will spin out of control every time, because you are in motion, always evolving.

Institutions won’t ever, “hold,” in the downward evolutionary cycle that is the real world for humans today, most of them, forever exercising their Allistic Reverse Evolution – where environments “deter,” us rather than form us, the very opposite of evolution – where they hurt each other to make each other, “better.” I’m sorry. What were we talking about?

It says that we are all fighting the same beast, and I have often worried that when we fight the Good Fight, we are nonetheless fighting, living to fight, raising our children in a fight – an entirely Dominator life, despite the SIDE of the issue, and still growing and propagating the warrior genes. I think our warrior genes can sometimes have us, uh . . . settling for the Good Fight, instead of finding a different solution to the problems.

I’m sorry. It’s part of the problem. We’re all fighting the same beast, plus to a large degree, we are the same beast.

They go on to say that, of all the movements, the only complete one is feminism, the only one qualified to take on the androcracy, and I get it, but again, just almost, they are still missing the epigenetics (and the genetics, and the evolution) that make it all go sideways in the first place.

I understand that for a lot of feminists, spanking is a no-no, if it’s a majority, someone, please show me. I mean I know all the good folks know it’s SUPPOSED to be a no-no, but in real life, this is not apparent. Something above 85% of Americans self-reported spanking maybe twenty years ago, and America doesn’t appear to be softening since. Surely more than the remaining optimistic 15% identify as feminist?

They give us a list of authors espousing ““feminine” values of nonviolence and caring,” and I want to smarmily ask for 85% of American toddlers – you call that nonviolence? I know, Allistic science does, it’s only violence if it’s lethal, like violence means nothing to the living – sounds like our Dominators forever, doesn’t it, like the “Kurgans.” Like the evo bros.

So, this might be a way in which the social sciences’ phobia about biology hurts their science and hurts their effort, that they want to talk about social models and education and soft things but ignore the hard biology of the epigenetics of spanking.

Seriously. I am sorry.

Eisler suggests that the move to a Partnership model might be the required evolutionary adaptation coming from the species’ survival instinct, and clearly, I’m not all with that, but evolution provides the mechanism for that with diversity, in this case for a diversity that will not appear in the fossil record, Neurodiversity.

But, make the other change, childism can be the movement that really does make the difference – as always, only if they let you do it, of course, and they intuit that this is where the rubber meets the road, things might escalate quickly. We can’t sneak it past anyone, we have to talk them into it, somehow, trick them if necessary, I mean, give the spankers of the world their own speech, this hurts me more than it hurts you, and trust me, this will make you a better person.

It’s for your own good. You’ll understand when your kids grow up that it was good for you to live without this. Ha. That’s a chapter. Three more to go.

Jeff

Aug. 16th., 2024