Where the modern concept of "Patriarchy" comes from
Most traditional societies are patriarchal. The formal authorities in such cultures are usually older men, and to some extent men generally. Modern Western feminists have adopted the term out of a belief that authority in our societies is similarly based, even though the concepts and values of modern society are very different. And feminists condemn what they think they see
Their objections to it would be incomprehensible in traditional societies and not well accepted even in some Southern European societies. So it is remarkable that something so strongly embedded in human society generally can be found to be obnoxious.
So is the modern western concept maladaptive? We have to suspect so. It is at least a large exaggeration of what happens in our society. Relationships in our society are very different from the traditional model. And is that an advance? Perhaps not. Traditional societies could have something to teach us about human relationships. A feminist minority may not be giving us a reliable guide to the good life
Feminist theory is based on Western cultural ideas. The ideas of equality, and power and human rights stem directly from Thomas Aquinas and John Mills and Elizabeth Cody Stanton. These are distinctly Western ideas. Other cultures emphasize different values about tradition, responsibility and duty.
This is a trend in Western History. We assume that our cultural values are Universal. That our ideas and values should apply in indigenous cultures, and that we have the right, or the duty, or the Manifest Destiny to spread our culture globally.
Patriarchy exists only as an American political narrative. Pushing our politics on indigenous cultures, or worse assuming that indigenous cultures exist to validate American political values is disrespectful.
Smashing the Patriarchy and indigenous cultures
Most politically liberal Americans now condemn the practice of Indian Schools. I think most people know that Indian schools existed in the United States and Canada in the 1800s. But no one is brave enough to consider what they were really about.
Indian schools were created to eliminate parts of indigenous culture that troubled progressive White people. Part of this was to eliminate polygamy.
300 years ago many indigenous cultures in North America and elsewhere practiced polygamy where adolescent girls were given to established (generally older men). Assuming you accept that these indigenous societies had functional and meaningful cultures, you have to accept that their customs were appropriate within this cultural environment. This is not acceptable in Western culture, but Western standards aren’t global truths.
You no longer hear about polygamy among Native Americans. Indian schools, as much as they are now hated, were a success at eliminating a practice we White people find troubling.
“Smashing the Patriarchy” means eliminating traditional cultural practices. This is fine if we want to demolish established cultural norms in our own culture.
Are you really comfortable smashing the Patriarchy when it comes to indigenous cultures?
The problem with global truth
Western culture is the dominant culture. We have successfully destroyed cultures and we are still pushing our values as if they represent some absolute truth that will save the world.
Being the global savior gets weird. White feminists see themselves in the odd position of protecting indigenous women from indigenous men. We have wiped out indigenous cultures who had their own ideas and values. And now we will save them with our values we see as more enlightened.
I am happy to have a discussion about the evils of whatever you are calling “Patriarchy” in our own culture. Probably these discussions are appropriate in the US, Australia and any other English-speaking former colony of the British Empire. We share a history. We share ideas. And, we share a legacy of domination and colonization.
But for God’s sake, leave indigenous cultures out of it. You don’t have a right to pass moral judgement on these cultures that you don’t really know anything about. And these cultures had their own beliefs, values and practices that were valuable in their own right.
https://medium.com/@max.dancona/the-patriarchy-versus-indigenous-cultures-5497deeef156
**********************************************Chileans resoundingly reject insane far-Left new constitution
With 99 per cent of the votes counted in Sunday's vote, the rejection camp had 61.9 per cent support compared to 38.1 per cent for approval
Conceding defeat, approval camp spokesman Vlado Mirosevic said "we recognise this result and we listen with humility to what the Chilean people have expressed."
The rejection was widely expected as pre-election polls showed that Chileans had grown wary of the proposals.
The draft constitution was drawn up by a constituent assembly in which a majority of delegates were not affiliated with a political party.
Carlos Salinas, a spokesman for the Citizens' House for Rejection, said the majority of Chileans saw the rejection as "a path of hope."
"We want to tell the government of President Gabriel Boric … that today you must be the president of all Chileans, and together we must move forward," he said.
Despite the broad expectations of defeat, no analyst or pollster had predicted such a large margin for the rejection camp.
The proposed document was the first in the world to be written by a convention split equally between male and female delegates.
However, critics said it was too long, lacked clarity and went too far in some of its measures.
Proposals included characterising Chile as a plurinational state, establishing autonomous Indigenous territories, and prioritising the environment and gender parity.
"The constitution that was written now leans too far to one side, and does not have the vision of all Chileans," said Roberto Briones, 41, after voting in Chile's capital, Santiago.
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America’s Marxist-Left Has Disturbing Nazi Socialism Parallels
The Democrats are brainwashed under a liberal umbrella that just keeps sinking them deeper into what is termed mass formation psychosis. It really ramped up in America under Obama’s watch, but it all dates back to a powerful and evil little dude named Adolf Hitler.
Remember, the majority of German citizens were also brainwashed by Hitler’s propaganda, and after WWII, the rest of the world wondered how all these German citizens, many of whom were highly educated, got so brainwashed and apathetic toward the Holocaust during the Nazi reign of terror. How did it happen?
Simple answer: They were under the spell of mass formation psychosis. They agreed that killing off certain races/creeds/quality of humans would cleanse the world and heal the ailing German economy. The main targets were Jews, Blacks, gays, autistic children, the elderly and anyone with a handicap.
Similarly, the liberal youth of today, coupled with the adults who watch CNN and read the newspaper, are the epitome of the fully-brainwashed extremists who would gladly watch Republicans and Conservatives who voted for Trump be slow-walked into the gas chambers or shot in the head twice for being “fascists,” or “white supremacists,” or whatever other scapegoat name they slap on us all.
It’s a cultural tyranny and there’s no way to talk these folks out of their psychosis, because the media has told them the same lies for so long, they all believe them wholeheartedly.
Most democrats today are EXTREME liberals, even if they don’t identify themselves as such. They believe Trump is a terrorist who sent his minions to Washington DC and the capital building on January 6, 2020, to hang Mike Pence if he did not push for an election investigation and electoral college accountability review. These extremist also believe everything the CDC lied about regarding the Fauci Flu. They are all under complete and utter hypnosis, and nothing any conservative person or organization tells them gets processed or internalized whatsoever by them. Their brainwashed mind is made up.
The extreme Left (nearly all Democrats today) are a huge cult that’s been trained to hate America, hate white people, hate straight people, hate all Russians, hate all Republicans, hate anyone without a COVID mask on, and hate anyone who criticizes the violence and hatred projected by BLM and Antifa. To them, we are all “white supremacists” and “conspiracy theorists” who want “dictator Trump” to rule the country like a tyrant.
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Fascism: Those who live in glass houses ...
The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way.
Then again, Biden, who once alleged that the chaste Mitt Romney was harboring a desire to bring back chattel slavery, is prone to stupid hyperbole.
And it’s true that most people who throw around the word “fascist” fail to do so with much precision.
These days, the word “democracy,” like “fascism,” has lost all meaning. According to Democrats, asking someone to show ID before voting is an attack on “democracy,” but so is the Supreme Court’s handing back power to voters on the abortion issue.
When you have no limiting principles of governance, anything that inhibits your exertion of power is seen as anti-“democracy.” If students have loans to be repaid, “forgive” them. If you can’t pass a bill, the executive branch should do it by fiat. If the court stops it, pack it.
Power is only to be limited when the opposition holds it.
A microcosm of this confused thinking can be found in the recent spate of hysterical media pieces about alleged Republican “book banning.” The use of “ban” by the media is more than a category error; it’s an effort to paint parents who use the very same exact democratic powers the left has relied on for decades as book burners.
Public school curricula and book selection are political questions decided by school and library boards. Neither have a duty to carry every single volume on racial identitarianism or sexually explicit material simply demanded by some busybody at the American Library Association.
Henry Olsen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center notes that fascists “believed that multiparty democracy weakened the nation, and that competitive capitalism was wasteful and exploitative. Their alternative was a one-party state that guided the economy through regulation and sector-based accords between labor and business.”
Well, is it not the left that champions government intervention in the economy, with never-ending regulations, subsidies, and mandates that effectively allow for controlling the means of production?
Leftists—some incrementally, some less so—are the proponents of nationalizing the health care system, the energy sector, and education. Again, if progressives have any limiting principles when it comes to intervention in our economic lives, I’d love to hear about them.
Are the most vociferous defenders of “democracy” not the ones who sound suspiciously like they want a one-party state? Modern Democrats have stopped debating policy or accepting the legitimacy of anyone who stands in their way.
They will pass massive, generational reforms using parliamentary tricks, without any input from the minority. And they don’t merely champion their work as beneficial; they claim these bills are needed for the survival of “democracy” and “civilization”—nay, the survival of the planet.
Anyone who opposes saving Mother Earth is surely an authoritarian. There is nothing to debate. The villainization of political opponents isn’t new, but we are breaking new ground.
Some may find it a bit fascist-y that the FBI feels free to instruct giant rent-seeking corporations to censor news to help elect their preferred candidate, as it did with Facebook. Or that the White House is in the business of “flagging” “problematic posts” and threatening corporations to “root out” “misleading” speech or be held accountable.
One wouldn’t be off-base seeing a “Disinformation Governance Board” that sifts through speech the administration dislikes or a Justice Department that treats those protesting authoritarian school boards as “domestic terrorists” as “semi-fascist.”
It is curious, as well, that the same people who control basically all major institutions in American life—academia, media, unions, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, trade associations, public schools, publishing, the entire D.C. bureaucracy, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, not to mention the presidency and Congress—claim to be victims of budding authoritarianism.
The only major institution free of progressives’ grip right now is the Supreme Court. And the left is engaged in a systematic effort to delegitimize the court for doing its job and limiting the state’s power.
None of this is to say that the right is innocent. I often find myself debating the populist right on issues ranging from the free markets to the role of the state.
Abuses of the Constitution should be called out, no matter who engages in them. However, progressivism’s crusade to destroy the separation of powers, its attacks on religious freedom and free speech, its undermining of civil society, its binding of the economy to the state, and its fostering of perpetual dependency and victimhood are far bigger long-term threats to the republic than Trumpism—and far closer to the definition of “semi-fascism” than the Republican agenda.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/09/02/who-are-you-calling-fascist-mr-president/
**********************************************The jackboot trampling Australians
George Orwell once wrote: ‘All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.’
He was someone who knew intimately the danger he was warning against, and also rightly said – even more ominously – via 1984:
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always – do not forget this, Winston – always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
Sadly this is no longer just the stuff of fiction and dystopian novels. Our Orwellian overlords have done extremely well in keeping the masses under their jackboots by hyping up fear, panic, and paranoia over a virus. Two years of lockdown hell – especially here in Melbourne – has taken its toll. Many broken lives, and many lost lives – due to suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, business collapse, and so on – have been the ugly result.
I never want to go through all that again, as would be the case with all freedom-loving citizens who have had a gut-full of the Big State doing its best to emulate Big Brother. Thankfully, it is more or less over – or so it seems. But just as a rapacious carnivore wants ever more, after having gotten a taste for blood, so too our statists have loved the power and control they so easily were able to get over the past few years.
They do not want to give it up. Indeed, they want more.
A whole new era has been ushered in, and it is not just most politicians who love it so. Plenty of folks at the top of the food chain have been rubbing their hands with glee as they see their new world order so nicely coming about. It has been a dream run.
Here down under our power-hungry premiers are still intoxicated by their newfound powers. They not only want to stay in complete control over the masses but they want to punish any and all recalcitrants who have dared to not bow down and worship them and their draconian edicts.
Consider two recent examples of this. This is what the tyrants in Queensland are now up to:
Queensland’s Education Department is docking the pay of 900 school staff who did not get the Covid vaccine, saying that ignoring the mandate put others at risk. Staff members including teachers, teacher aides, administration staff, cleaners and school officers will have a ‘small-scale temporary reduction of one increment of pay’ for 18 weeks, the department said.
‘Approximately $25-$90 per week gross, proportionate to the normal pay that a staff member receives,’ a spokesperson from the department said. ‘The disciplinary penalty imposed on staff are individualised to each person’s circumstances.’ The staff received a letter this week informing them about the decision, however a 20-week period had been flagged with them.
The letter stated the action was ‘appropriate’ for the severity of the matter and hoped staff would follow future directions. A direction from the state’s Chief Health Officer required school staff to be vaccinated against Covid from November last year, but the decision was revoked in June and staff have since returned to the workplace.
Talk about dictatorship in action: ‘You will be punished for refusing our orders. You will be made an example of. You will suffer for this.’ As if they have not suffered already. Thankfully, there has been a little bit of pushback to this.
The article also says this:
Teachers Professional Association of Queensland secretary Tracy Tully said impacted teachers had been informed earlier this year they would face disciplinary action for not complying. ‘Whilst they were on suspended leave without pay, they received a letter saying that they are advising that there would be some disciplinary action, but they weren’t sure what it would be,’ she said.
‘By doing that, it actually puts people into a high state of alert and fear.’ Ms Tully said the teachers had already been penalised financially. ‘The teachers have already been disciplined by being stood down without pay,’ she said. Ms Tully said some teachers would appeal the decision with the Industrial Relations Commission.
University of Sydney social scientist specialising in vaccines Professor Julie Leask said the reduced pay policy was from a time when high vaccination coverage was crucial to reduce transmission but was now ‘outdated’. ‘It is unlikely to achieve what these policies should be trying to achieve, which is either to encourage vaccination or to ensure that others are protected from transmission,’ she said. Professor Leak said these policies only ‘alienate and drive mistrust’. ‘This policy appears to be more of an anger-based policy than an evidence-based,’ she said.
But another state is also getting in on the persecution, making life even more difficult for all those rebellious lepers there. As one news item reports:
WA Police say more than 50 officers are facing disciplinary action over their refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19 – as a legal challenge against the state’s vaccine mandates by one of their own was comprehensively rejected by a WA Supreme Court judge. Ben Falconer has spent almost nine months fighting against the mandates issued by WA Police to all its workers late last year – a battle that took so long that the mandates were lifted in the meantime.
That battle was lost on three fronts on Tuesday, when Justice Jeremy Allanson methodically picked apart arguments around irrationality, proportionality and bodily integrity. ‘It was not, in the words of counsel for the applicant, a maelstrom in a petri dish. The measures that were taken are undoubtedly extraordinary, but that does not establish that they lacked rationality so as, for that reason, to be beyond power,’ Justice Allanson said.
More Statist thuggery in action. As one social media mate of mine said:
Now that Ben Falconer lost his case, they want to punish everyone who didn’t agree to be force vaccinated. Disgraceful to ever mandate a vaccine, let alone a total blunder that doesn’t even prevent transmission, let alone everything we’ve learned since even then, but to go after them at this stage is just shameful. Let’s just keep making the wound bigger even after the threat has passed, and make sure our law enforcement officers know that their value is 0. Total shambles.
Quite right. All dictators thrive on fear, intimidation, and bullying. These Labor premiers – and others like them – have become experts in this. And the really scary thing is what we are seeing down under is no different from what we see in Communist China with its social credit system: good behaviour and good thought (as determined by the State) will be rewarded; bad behaviour and bad thought will be punished.
China and Australia are much closer than we thought – and in more ways than one.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/where-the-jackboot-never-fades/
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