It's a curious fact that whenever I have been subjected to patriarchal correction, it has always ended up with my reducing my estimation of the particular patriarch's intellect, social worth, and so on.
I think it is because out of habit or training, the patriarch tends to attack the very part of the mind of the other that could be of most use to him -- that is he attacks "feeling" as such (the limbic system, aka. the paleomammalian brain).
It is very difficult to imagine why he does this, since it is that part of the brain -- the feeling, sensitive side -- that has been most in training (due to patriarchal social conditioning, which imparts a certain idealistic delusion) to view the patriarch as having any kind of worth. Yet, it is this particular part of thinking that he always goes in to attack whenever he wants to assert his authority. This strategy necessarily has the opposite kind of effect. Instead of reinforcing his authority, he undermines it.
It is as if he said: "I would like you to treat me in a rude and perfunctory manner, without any sense of us having any kind of social relationship."
So it is that patriarchy -- contemporary patriarchy -- takes great strides to diminish its historical credit, and loses its social aura.
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Very true. Patriarchy attacks our insecurities and our weaknesses, most of which have been hardcoded sometime between birth and maturation of consciousness.
Also, howya doing, Jenny?
But don't most patriarchal agendas include removing feeling, ie, making a woman think like she's somehow lesser because she can't "think/act" like a man? It is true that feeling is a method of control, though.
I wonder if THIS might be why my "Reeducator" accused me of being "unfeeling" (my mother did the same) ... not responding to the emotional calls of patriarchy, not getting it quite, not having the rails installed quite right so that train could run easily in me. HMMMM.
The shaman is one who has found a way to detach from, and transcend, whatever is going on at particular level. Thus he or she effectively stops time. I mean by that that they can consciously choose to participate in, or detach from, any situation that arises. They know that the manner in which the other person sees them has a huge proportion of illusion attached. Therefore, the shaman does not always choose to get involved.
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