Cordite & Testosterone - Why Men Should Not Be Running the World. Cecilia Boone's Tanner
“Man shall have dominion over all the beasts,”
and this is the BIG LIE.
This is the big lie that men bought with all their hearts and souls, a lie that has led civilization astray.
Somehow, the male interpretation of the beasts blurred over to include women, thanks to some misogynist early Abraham descendents, thus justifying the male oppression of women, animals, and all living things, as well as the planet’s resources.
Most of the bible has been revised; there was the E (Elohim) revision, the J (Jesuit) revision, and the P (Priestly) revision to consolidate and justify the male intention to have dominion over all living things. But who can believe that a loving all-merciful god would order men to pillage and kill everyone in a village except the virgins who they were instructed to take for themselves to sell or enslave? Only someone whose own agenda is served by such preposterous claims.
The male world cosmology looks like this:
God
(who looks like a man and is an all-powerful male.)
Man
(who looks like god)
Woman
(servants of men &/or sex objects)
Animals
(food)
Living organisms
(greenery on the golf course)
Natural elements
(resources for industry)
Perhaps the cosmology should look more like this:
The Living Universe
Universal forces, both male and female
All living beings on the planet (female & male),
including human and non-human animals
and birds and fish.
Lower Life Forms
plants that nourish the living
Elements
that provide the nutrients for the plants
This cosmology, however, does not serve man’s interests because it would lead people to recognize that they owe more to the survival of all living things than they owe to male ambition and the male god.
Instead, we have this worship of the male god who can hardly be denied because to do so is heretical and heretics can be killed, burned &/or tortured, and they were and are. Muslim and East Indian women who don’t accept the male oppression can be killed; wives, sisters, daughters–they can all be killed by their male relatives because the women don’t count in the eyes of the male who reveres a fear-provoking, inflexible, blood-lusting male god. The men in the Middle East have manufactured the evil of women, and they will destroy themselves in order to guarantee their right (divine right) to subjugate their women. They have to torment someone it seems.
There is a bitter irony here. If men let go of the religious lie, as many intelligent men have done, they find the respect they crave, the respect that has been denied them by their women and children who have lived in fear of them or are disgusted by them. If the men hanging on so tightly to the lie would relax, respect themselves and others, and have some fun without the onerous burden of keeping up the lie, their lives would be much happier.
The Male Hierarchy System
With the male pecking order system, we end up with a dangerous concentration of power that results in the impoverishing of most of the people.
Look at every country in the world to see proof of this pecking order in action–EVERY COUNTRY in the world, some in extreme, a few at near workable levels.
Men have a strange respect for the status pursuits of other men–an awe, perhaps, or a spectator respect to see how far the game is going to go even if they have to sacrifice their own lives for these other men's gains. It gets tangled up in honor that seems to be a motivating feature of the pecking order, that there is honor in performing your role without question when you are given a role in the order, even if it is a miserable role. War is the most obvious example.
And men can't seem to intrude on other men's games or limit the stakes in other men's games even when it hurts their own lives.
For example, look at fraternity hazing events. Ordinarily compassionate decent loving young men will sit and watch while other not-so-decent men humiliate and damage others, often women.
In war, when a group commits atrocities, the other men are often unwilling to intrude and stop the action because they "are following orders". Women, too, fall into this respect-the-alpha-leader mentality, but I think the women are simply following the male lead in these times and are not actually participating in any pecking order allegiance.
Men like the hierarchy system where they know their position, be it alpha, beta or omega, when their duties are clear, their allegiances are clear, their loyalties are blocked out for them.
I often say, don't follow others–they may be going to the dentist. They may be going where they really shouldn't be going, and they may be taking us all into our peril. Men don't find this to be an honorable attitude, however, and are willing to take the whole world into extinction in their allegiance to any presiding leader.
The pecking order system works to keep the alpha males, the King Rats, in power. This is the ultimate condition for procreation and survival of their own superior genes, controlling others to provide for themselves. The alpha males at the top of the order then ensure that the rest of the group is subservient and quiescent using any means that become necessary, more and more brutal if challenged. They will persuade, cajole, lie, cheat, bribe and then kill without remorse when answering their undisciplined primal lust.
Men create enemies when necessary, in order to rally the troops into a cohesive form that can be controlled and manipulated. All leaders know the power to be had in the creation of a dreadful common enemy that all must cooperate to defeat. [Pol Pot in Kapuchea (Cambodia) managed to make intellectuals the enemy.] And with that unquestioned cooperation, they are free to do whatever they like without criticism. Often, they have to manufacture the enemy or the fear or set up a Tonkin incident or a Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction fear or spread the rumor that some uneasy alliance group has committed an atrocity that must be avenged. Then you have a situation ripe for the glorious leader to take the dominant oppressor position.
The boy's club is the linchpin of the whole system that keeps the wheels of the machine turning over so that their King Rat stays in power. The alpha males need the King Rat to ensure their boy's club survives in order to keep themselves in the status (wealth) position. The members of the club usually do not take public office, and we don't always recognize these members in their day to day activities, but it works well, and the honor system is not violated without serious consequences.
One example of the workings of the King Rat and the boy's club happened in Canada when one of the richest families in Canada wanted to take several billion dollars out of the country in direct violation of the law. Mulroney's government turned a blind eye, and might have instructed the Income Tax dept to do so also. We will never know. The crime was pointed out to the succeeding Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, who promised an investigation, which, of course, dragged along, if indeed it was even started, and the whole issue dropped out of sight by the time the time limit for blocking the move was up. The media, being one of the major movers in the Boy's club, and the RCMP, at the time being reduced to a beta position under the direction of the boy's club, all assisted in losing $6M of the people’s money in taxes in that instance.
So we may think we have democracy, that our governments