We have reached a point where our reason will not allow us to consciously separate into tribes, where judgement of the Other is considered wrong.
But judgement of those who judge transexuals or gays, or even MEXICANS–who speak another language, act according to foreign cultural rules they frequently refuse to adapt to integrate here, and who are not even in this country legally–is considered wrong. So you get the same judgement. You activate that same social instinct. You still separate into tribes. The social instinct is served. Nothing is transcended.
We need to exist within social orders. The Chinese and Hindus and others, in making absolute rules about family orders, and the relationship of families to the King and State and community and village and overall culture, were following natural human tendencies, the same that cause chimpanzees to have de facto kings, de facto “nobles”, and plebians, and to place all females in a low category.
The effort, of course, is to critique allegedly artificial and arbitrary social orders. Why should women be inferior? Why should some men be superior? These are valid questions, and the conclusion that these emergent behaviors constitute injustices is reasonable.
But at the same time an actually excessive and utterly unfulfilled need FOR social order of precisely this sort, which is unrecognized in the frontal cortex, unprocessed, and thus unconscious, leads to behaviors like the grunting and groaning, ritual violence, throwing of sticks and that sort of thing, which has attended the North Carolina decision to honor and protect traumatized women who were terrified and triggered by the thought of men in their bathrooms. You have tribal warfare, with one group claiming territory, and the other defending the territory, and particularly vulnerable female members of their social order.
Leftists in general are what they condemn. I am decreasingly sympathetic to most conservative propaganda memes too, but appeals to tradition are always inherently appeals to systems that at some point in time, and for some period of time, have sufficiently met the needs of all involved that they were stable.
I don’t think anyone who has paid careful attention to women’s behavior over any period of time can fully forget or condemn Freud’s conclusion that women have a masochistic streak. 50 Shades certainly did nothing to dispel that. Countless women are and have been happy in positions of overtly unequal authority. Any man, obviously, who says he calls all the shots is either stupid or lying, but it has been common for women publicly to hide their influence and power.
From my own perspective, the question that most interests me is what creative energies–genuinely creative, not tearing down, breaking, expressions of rage and social exclusion, with most of Leftism being a de facto emanation of social exclusion–lie dormant in all of us. What can women contribute that they are not contributing? What can men and children contribute that they are not presently?
Creation and curiosity are the tools and pathways for growth. Time and patience are the soil.
I look around me and see so much futility. So much waste. So many people running around trying to save the world, and shitting on everything and everyone they touch without seeing it, without being able to care, since they are animated by manic energies they cannot touch consciously, cannot own, cannot see, and which laugh at them, like the demons in bad movies.