America The Barbaric

We live in a country that depends upon the systematic destruction of other human beings in order to make a point. If you're liberal, then masculinity's relation to the rest of the world is one of destruction, oppression and violation. Men are the pedophiles. Men only want to control and dominate women. Men like to start wars.

Everything else in this goddamn world is gray and multifaceted - until you start talking about men. Then everything is so easy and black a white: Women good, men bad.

If you're a conservative in this country then liberalism is a mental illness. Liberals are unAmerican. Liberals hate America! We have to destroy the communists and socialists!

We can't live in a world where we disagree.

This is a consequence when we live in a society that dehumanizes men and pathologizes their sexuality. Ana, a grown woman from the Young Turks, tells the story of how she beats up a 15 year old boy and repeatedly kicks him in the gut while he's on the ground:



The reaction is essentially, "You go girl!"

Being smacked on the ass is violating and not acceptable. But he's fifteen. But adults aren't supposed to smack around minors. What sort of person is this? Standards and self control are meaningless to this woman. It's all about how she felt. Well guess what, as adults we all feel various things. As adults we're supposed to control our emotions. Unless you're a woman I suppose. Then you're allowed to follow your gut feeling? Any man would be locked up for beating a 15 year old boy, even if he made the man feel violated.

This is entirely unacceptable. Equality my ass. If this is feminism then it's about dehumanization and subjugation of males and protecting women from accountability and adulthood.

Michael Savage is a perfect example of this type of hate and dehumanization of political opponents.



How can this guy talk about other human beings the way he does and be surprised when he's banned from visiting other countries? Providing illegals with health care is compassionate but simultaneously disenfranchises many legal residents who don't get health care. Two perfectly reasonable sides of the issue both worthy of discussion. But apparently it's so horrible that it's enough to send this non-racist off the wall. So much for being well adjusted. Savage has a pathological reaction to this issue. And he speaks to many millions of fans! Chilling...

The sick thing is, the people who belong to these various political factions don't even see the sickness of their beliefs. They think they're totally justified.

Here's an example of old school racism, Oprah being compared to monkeys by some racist, neo-nazi skinhead:


(Here's the context if you need proof.)

So why is it no surprise that the recent email scandal in California that made Obama and his family a bunch of monkeys such a big deal? The utter cluelessness and racial insensitivity of the apologists is astounding. "You liberals are so obsessed with racism!"

What should one expect when racial epitaphs are considered jokes among conservatives? I'm totally at a loss for the utter lack of accountability.

Even more insidious, in my opinion, is the Institutionalized hatred of men. But it's not always so blatant. It's hidden under a veil of Enlightenment. Take for example the sick and disgusting "Conscious Men" video Dear Woman:



So, all men today and yesterday are guilty because of the "negative masculine energies" of the past? News flash! Reality is never so simple. Perhaps a little revisiting of history where we can explore the nature of oppressive queens and pampered women whose privilege and status was maintained and protected by the oppression of the masses. Or the millions of men who have risked their lives and ruined their bodies working dangerous and dirty jobs so the women and children at home could live beyond his years on this Earth. No, life is never so black and white, no matter how enlightened you think you are.

Or this black racist, Kamau Kamboon, testify such simple, black and white old school paranoid racism to the senate:


Want to know why conservatives are such racist reactionaries? One reason, to be explored further in a future post, is liberalism makes excuses "because they're an oppressed class", these type of people say all kinds of very hurtful things about other people. What does it solve? What good does this do to allow reverse racism because of past events? Are today's whites guilty of past actions because of "negative white energies"?

Or the former President that said atheists aren't real Americans?

How about all those atheists who can't help but be intentionally sarcastic, denigrating and inconsiderate about all forms of non-atheism and non-materialism? I totally get how atheists are treated at the bottom rung of the ladder. But resorting to straw man characterizations of all forms of theism and spirituality is pointless. The intolerance many materialistic atheists have of spiritual and theistic people is deeply disturbing and dogmatic.

Or George Carlin's routine that blames fathers and mars masculinity as the "crappy other" compared to women?

We often cherry pick what type of behavior we consider to be appropriate or inappropriate. Depending on what side of the political spectrum you lean toward, your target changes but the behavior is the same. How can it be good on one side and bad on the other? How can conservatives be held accountable for the damage their dogma has created for this nation when liberals can't do the same? And vice versa?

We live in a sick world that thrives on hatred of other people. It's time to change that.

A Radical Notion

I believe in the radical notion that men are human beings deserving of the same level of consideration afforded any other demographic.

Amy Whinehouse openly abused her husband and she faced no serious repercussion for her actions, if any at all. Jezebel.com used that and an article demonstrating violence perpetrated by women, as an opportunity to celebrate their propensity for Intimate Partner Violence as if it was empowering to beat up a boyfriend. (Girl Power!) A serious crime which has life altering affects on the victim, jezebel.com enjoys the privilege of openly flaunting their abuse for no other reason than they are women and their victims are men.

For more than a generation men have been the subject of character assassination. Men are always the perpetrator and women are always the victim. That is a tired and worn out cliche. But one can't blame the critics for cliches. For the critics are merely the observers pointing out an unadulterated fact.

Men have been reduced to a one dimensional character whose relation to women and the world is through abuse, oppression and brutality. Simply speaking out that men are human beings with a much more complex relation to the world around them is itself a political act against the status quo. A social gag order exists against any multidimensional, multiflavored analysis of masculinity's relationship with society or the world as a whole. Only conservatives and fringe lunatics worry about the welfare of the privileged white, male and heterosexual, is the stereotype.

As a consequence many voices who are victims of domestic violence are ignored, suppressed, marginalized all because it's an octave lower. The Psychiatry News piece cited by jezebel.com reports a shocking revelation about relationships in society today.

Of an 11,370 sample, 23.9% were violent. Among the violent relationships, 50.3% were non-reciprocal. Of those relationships, a staggering 70.7% were perpetrated by women. This makes one wonder exactly what the abusive relationship landscape really looks like. With constant images that only reinforce the idea that women are inherently victims and hardly ever the aggressors, we have this false image that the reverse is “very rare” thus not as important as the (supposedly) far worse problem women face.*

We now have the problem of resistance by people to affirm the severity of the problem. The very act of a male speaking up is met with silence, marginalization, or shaming. “Quit whining”, “you must have been burned”, “you just hate women” and so forth.

The sad truth is men are in a situation with their intimate relationships with women that women had to contend with generations ago: Silent suffering and alienation. The solution: More awareness with an urgency to take this issue as seriously as we take male on female violence. But perhaps the most challenging part is a discussion about the reasons why this happens. Plenty of resources have been pooled to analyze the nastier sides of masculinity. There needs to be the same kind of analysis of toxic female behaviors with no fear of being called a misogynist.

*Yet, when females constitute the minority who faces a particular problem and the majority are males (such as autism diagnosis), it's urgent those minority of females are addressed simply because they are the minority. So, it's always a zero-sum game with males the losers. But that's another topic.

Introduction

[This still has some holes in it. Working out all the kinks may take some time.]

This blog is an introduction to a new school of thought aimed at reforming the inheritance of the Western philosophical tradition. The inconsistencies and inanity of modern American politics is a consequence of this crisis.*

Much of modern American politics today can be explained as a schism of two liberalisms. The progressivism of the 1960's and the so-called classical liberalism claimed to be those of the Founding Fathers but is in fact ideas emerging from the early 20th century. Namely, from Isabella Paterson, Rose Wilder and Ayn Rand. In later blogs I will show that American libertarianism isn't the classical liberalism of the Founding Fathers. The philosophy of the Founding Fathers was diverse and much more cultivated than that of modern American libertarianism. Their's was in the spirit of the times, the Age of Enlightenment. A tradition which has evolved over the centuries; the natural evolution of the tradition by which we got capitalism, socialism, Marxism, modernism and post-modernism. But by the mid-20th century the natural evolution of Western philosophy - going back 2,500 years ago in ancient Greece by philosophers such as Plato, Socrates, Aristotle - reached a period of stagnation which it hasn't recovered from since. What has filled that hole is instead a congested landscape which is perpetuated by a generally uninformed population and Institutions which actively stifle honest discussion and reflection. Even individuals who view themselves as informed are largely unaware of the true extent of our philosophical and intellectual quandary.

Due to the nature of this blog it will generally ignore the petty nit picking perpetrated by the fundamental religious, the New Atheists, conservatives and liberals. Its scope will reach far below the surface and reveal the nature of this problem, why it exists and how to create change. In order to do that the blog will need a breadth and scope that tackles topics as diverse as Academia, fundamental physics, gender politics, philosophy of science, education, environmentalism and ecology, economics, religion and spirituality, The New Atheism, the internet, theoretical computer science and mathematics, epistemology and more. As disparate as these subjects may seem, they're in fact all interrelated and form what's akin to a "matrix of the mind" (of Hollywood fame) which contextualizes our thoughts and sets borders much like the blinders on a horse to keep us thinking very one dimensionally which results in us not asking the right questions, questions we need to be asking and thinking about.

This blog will focus primarily on American culture. But this problem is truly a Universal problem in all cultures and nations of the developed and developing world. Or perhaps this is only the lunatic ravings of a delusional individual. But madness or the threat of madness is simply the nature of treading on the edge. Any attempt to question the fundamentals of any established system of human thought doesn't come without a price after all.



*Since the word crisis is used so often that it's approaching buzz word status, I feel a definition is necessary to maintain perspective.

crisis
-noun
1. a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; a turning point.
2. a condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change.

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