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Do Men Really Benefit From Patriarchy?

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the Vive La Difference! blog)

Do men really benefit from patriarchy?  Yes and no.  In a relative sense, yes, but in an absolute sense, no.

The vast majority of us fellas get chewed up and spat out by the system, at least in the long run.  It is a NEGATIVE-sum game.  And people of ALL genders would be better off without it.  Keep in mind that it also intersects with oligarchy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, and the larger kyriarchy as well.  It is one big Ponzi pyramid scheme and protection racket, and literally the largest and oldest one.

I think of it like this.  If the bad guys were to suddenly vanish from the face of the Earth, would the good guys be better off, or worse off, on balance?  I think the answer is pretty obvious.  Just like that famous natural experiment with the baboons, where the most violent and aggressive ones ate the tainted meat and removed themselves from the population.  The rest of them, both male and female, were significantly better off on balance.  Let that sink in for a moment.

So fellas, we seriously need to stop carrying water for that system that would throw us under the bus for 50 cents without a second thought.  Yesterday.

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Excellent Article By Gabrielle Stanley Blair: "Men Are The Secondary Sex"

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the "Vive La Difference!" blog)

Happy International Women's Day!

Here is an excellent Substack article by the ever-insightful author Gabrielle Stanley Blair, "Males Are The Secondary Sex," in which she essentially advocates for Matriarchy instead of patriarchy, and how men are basically drones, not leaders.

https://open.substack.com/pub/designmom/p/males-are-the-secondary-sex

It seems like the idea of Matriarchy is finally catching on, God willing!

P.S. You may remember this same author had written "Ejaculate Responsibly" a few years ago, also a great read as well.  In a nutshell, it's basically about how the real cause of unwanted pregnancies is MEN, and how the onus for prevention really should be on them, not Women.  She makes excellent points here.

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"I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs

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War Is A Racket (Updated Re-Post)

                               

WAR.  It seems to be as old as time itself.  And so many people seem to think it is inevitable.  However, it turns out that is not really true.  War is neither timeless nor inevitable.   It has a beginning, and it has an end.  The beginning was about 7000 years ago (with the advent of patriarchy), while the end will be coming very soon (with the inevitable decline and fall of patriarchy, and rise of Women and Matriarchy in the not-too-distant future).  And the end can't come soon enough!

Patriarchy inherently rewards aggression and violence, no doubt about that.  And it messes with our heads so as to condition us to accept such violence as normal.  And of course there is men's tendency to think that war and scarcity are inevitable, which become self-fulfilling prophecies.  Women, on the other hand, would tend to reject such backwards thinking if they were in charge.  The late, great Buckminster Fuller said as much.

But there is also another reason why war is likely to occur under patriarchy, and that reason is discussed in depth by Major General Smedley Butler in his 1935 book, War Is A Racket.  Put simply, war is indeed a racket that is designed to further enrich the already ultra-rich oligarchs.  In other words, its genesis is none other than evil and powerful men who are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and kill for filthy lucre, and those sycophantic lackeys and ignorant masses who are brainwashed and duped to go along with it.   And of course, we know that patriarchy itself inevitably leads to oligarchy in the first place due to its "might makes right" and "winner take all" paradigm (that is nowadays most often cleverly disguised by the persistent and utterly hollow myth of "meritocracy").

Indeed, patriarchy itself be thought of as a gender war writ large, and the only way to end it once and for all--and all other wars that come from it--is for men to surrender to Women.  It's a war men have lost before the war even began, despite winning nearly every battle--men just don't realize it yet.

That said, General Butler's book is more about how the perennial racket of war actually works in practice, and how to smash it for good (as opposed to the why the oligarchy exists in the first place).  But it goes a very long way towards explaining it, and he would be spinning in his grave if he were to see today's massive, imperialistic war machine.

From the Wikipedia article:

In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.

The work is divided into five chapters:

1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!

It contains this summary:

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

Then he goes on to discuss who exactly profits from it and how.  It turns out it is not just weapons manufacturers, but also the big banks and other businesses that directly or indirectly deal with it as well.  In fact, the banksters are probably the biggest beneficiaries of war, since they lend money to finance it and then claw back so much in interest.  And manufacturers of non-weapons goods also have a market to sell their wares to in the military.  And of course, let's not forget all the resources plundered from the other countries as "spoils of war".

(And now we can add "defense contractors", aka mercenary corporations, such as DynCorp, Blackwater, Halliburton, KBR, Raytheon, et al. to the list of war profiteers as well.)

War is, of course, a negative-sum game overall.  It does not really create wealth on balance, it actually destroys more than it creates.  But it certainly brings in a ludicrous amount of ill-gotten wealth in the form of profit, plunder, and usury for the oligarchy.  As for the idea that it "stimulates the economy" in the short run, that is technically true, but as neo-Keynesian economist Dr. Paul Krugman has famously noted years ago, a faked alien invasion would be every bit as stimulating, but without all of the serious side effects such as countless deaths, injuries, PTSD, family breakdown, resource depletion, pollution, ecological damage, and property damage.

And guess who foots the bill for it all?  You guessed it--the taxpayers.  The oligarchs pull the wool over our eyes, while laughing all the way to the bank.  But truly the biggest part of the bill is paid for in blood by the soldiers themselves.  And even for those who survive the horrors of war, it still takes its toll on them regardless, both physically and psychologically.  And these soldiers generally hail not from the ranks of the wealthy, but rather from the poor and broader working class.  Not much has changed in that regard today, it seems.

(Note that since the gold standard was abolished in 1971, our Monetarily Sovereign federal government does not actually need taxes to fund anything, since they can just "print" (create) the money now if they wanted.  But since wars inherently chew through ludicrous amounts of non-monetary resources, all wars are thus inflationary regardless, so We the People still pay for it in the form of higher prices.)

And that's to say nothing of the human toll of civilians in the other countries as well, who bear the brunt of it.

Then, General Butler discusses how to smash this evil racket once and for all.  To summarize, the three steps are as follows:  1) Take the profit out of war, 2) Put it up to a vote (limited to those who would be eligible for the draft) as to whether or not a war should be declared, and 3) Limit our military forces to home defense purposes.  Otherwise, nothing will stop the racket.

Again, as noted on Wikipedia:

In the booklet's penultimate chapter, Butler recommended three steps to disrupt the war racket:

1. Making war unprofitable. Butler suggests that the means for war should be "conscripted" before those who would fight the war:

It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labour before the nation's manhood can be conscripted. […] Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our ship-builders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted — to get $30 a month [NOTE: that's $511/month in 2019 dollars], the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.

2. Acts of war to be decided by those who fight it. He also suggests a limited referendum to determine if the war is to be fought. Eligible to vote would be those who risk death on the front lines.
3. Limitation of militaries to self-defense. For the United States, Butler recommends that the Navy be limited, by law, to operating within 200 miles of the coastline, and the Army restricted to the territorial limits of the country, ensuring that war, if fought, can never be one of aggression. 

Indeed, the time to end all of this insanity and evil is yesterday.  So what do we do in the meantime while patriarchy still exists?  Thus, inspired by Butler, I propose that a new law be passed that we call the War Pigs Act, named after both the ineffectual and toothless War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the 1970 Black Sabbath song "War Pigs".  The first part of the new law would put some teeth in the War Powers Act by closing the loopholes and holding the President liable for any consequences of a war that is not authorized by Congress and is not during a state of emergency caused by an attack on the USA.  And absent a formal declaration of war by Congress, absolutely NO war may last beyond 90 days (60 days followed by a 30 day withdrawal), save for a temporary authorization of force that expires 90 days after the authorization passes or 180 days after the war began (if it began before the new law went into effect), whichever occurs first.  After that, there must be a formal declaration of war, or the war must end.  Period.

The second part of the law would implement some of General Butler's recommendations from his book, taking into account that we currently have an all-volunteer military.  Take the profit out of war, first of all.  Use the tax code to do so.  And for any war lasting beyond six months (which by definition would now require a formal declaration of war), require an annual limited plebiscite of all citizens that would be eligible for military service.  Make it a non-secret ballot such that those who vote "yes" would be drafted if we run out of volunteers, followed by those who abstain from the vote if necessary.  Those who vote "no" would be exempt from any such draft.  A kind of "consensual conscription", if you will.  We would all have skin in the game.  Women would be included as well, but before they draft the very first Woman, we should draft men in their 40s and 50s first.  That's the demographic group who starts the wars but rarely fights them.  It's only fair, right fellas?  Watch as war becomes a thing of the past, at least for the stupid ones and decade(s) long quagmires like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

(It would also be a good idea to do like the Iroquois once did:  give Women elders the power to VETO any decision to go to war.  That alone would prevent essentially all wars that are not waged in strict and absolute defense of the homeland.)

For the record, I am personally 100% against the draft on principle.  Unless absolutely necessary, I view it as a form of slavery and involuntary servitude, and if there were ever such a thing as a truly just war (as per St. Augustine's Just War Theory criteria), which is about as rare as a unicorn, conscription would be unnecessary, since volunteers would be plentiful.  And today's technology further makes it largely obsolete to raise such large numbers of boots on the ground.  But since nuance, gray areas, and exceptions that prove every rule do in fact exist in the real world (see WWII and the American Civil War, for example), I will note that if we ever must have a draft, only those who voted yes (or chose not to vote) for such a war should be drafted.

General Butler was a true American hero and patriot.  After his distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps including during WWI (during and after which he eventually found out just how much of a racket it really was), he later quashed an attempted Wall Street fascist coup against FDR's government in 1933-1934.  Yes, there really was a plot by the Rockefellers, Mellon Bank, Standard Oil, General Motors, Goodyear, US Steel, and many others (including pro-Nazi forces!) to overthrow the federal government and install their own fascist dictatorship do their bidding, complete with concentration camps for, in their own words, "Jews and other undesirables".  And the money for the plot bankrolled by the big banks/corporations was funneled through Prescott Bush's companies (yes, THAT Bush, who also did business with the Nazis as well).  They all thought they could use Butler for the plot and he pretended to play along at first, only to foil their plot by telling Congress about it just before it went ahead.  He literally saved America from falling to full-blown fascism, in other words.  He was indeed history's original whistleblower, and then in 1935, he wrote his magnum opus, which unfortunately fell on deaf ears the world over.

As General Butler famously said, 

"TO HELL WITH WAR!"

"Either war is obsolete, or man is."

-- Buckminster Fuller

"War, what is it good for?  Absolutely NOTHING!"

-- Edwin Starr

"Come the war, come the avarice, come the war, come hell...Come attrition, come the reek of bones, come attrition, come hell...This is why, why we fight, why we lie awake...And this is why, this is why we fight..."

-- The Decemberists

"Now the labor leader's screaming when they close the missile plant, United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore. Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason, but I ain't marching anymore."

-- Phil Ochs

"I declare the war is over, it's over, it's over..."

-- Phil Ochs

"But the hardest thing I'll ask you, if you would only try, is take your children by their hands and look into their eyes.  And there you'll see the answer you should have seen before.  If we win the wars at home, there'll be no fighting anymore"

-- Phil Ochs 

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This is extremely interesting but I need to add another side.  Did this man know what he signed up for when he married this lady?  This is not a normal  household. Is the heroine OBSESSED with more & more children & using him as the support?  HER need, not his.  And they are not all theirs, some are adopted.  He works all  day, then comes home to CHAOS - which might not be a happy life for him.  If he was intent on running an orphanage it might work, lol. This does not sound like a man having an outside affair but one who needs to ESCAPE, lol.   And somehow he finds a way to part with this mess - which is a mess for him, not her. Her cash cow is gone, now she has to bear it & she did.  But she must admit - she was USING him! The movie of course gives only her side - I imagined the rest.

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Hierarchy Is NOT A Dirty Word!

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the "Vive La Difference!" blog)

HIERARCHY.  There is that word again, a word that means practically all things to all people.  It gets loaded with all sorts of baggage depending on who you ask.  But it is neither inherently good NOR bad.

The Oxford dictionary definition of hierarchy is, "a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority."  The etymology is from late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler’ (see hierarch). The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings’; the other senses date from the 17th century.  Since then, the word has been used to refer to all sorts of ranking systems, from clergy to military to business to politics to society and beyond.

There is apparently a dogma in some circles that Women don't really LIKE hierarchies at all.  And while that dogma may have a kernel of truth (in that Women tend to have less of the classic libido dominandi, i.e. the "desire to dominate," than men do), it's mostly bunk.  Rather, it's more the NATURE of the hierarchy and what it is used for.

Far from jettisoning it wholesale, Riane Eisler had noted long ago that there are two main kinds of hierarchies:  hierarchies of domination (as seen in the dominator or authoritarian model), and hierarchies of actualization (as seen in the partnership or authoritative model).

Here is what Google has to say about it:

Hierarchies of domination and actualization differ in how power is used: domination systems rely on fear, force, and strict, top-down control to maintain inequity. In contrast, hierarchies of actualization (common in partnership systems) use power to empower others, fostering mutual respect, accountability, and growth. 

Hierarchies of Domination (Authoritarian)

• Structure: Strict, rigid, and top-down, often found in both family and state, normalizing inequity.
• Mechanism: Maintained through fear, force, and violence.
• Focus: Power "over" others to control, bully, and treat lower rungs as means to an end.
• Outcome: High levels of sanctioned violence and suppression of human potential. 

Hierarchies of Actualization (Partnership)

• Structure: Democratic and egalitarian, utilizing leaders/mentors to guide, not crush.
• Mechanism: Power is used to "empower" and "power with" others.
• Focus: Facilitating growth, creativity, and the fulfillment of potential.
• Outcome: Mutual respect, accountability, and valuing of care/nonviolence. 

Comparison

• Goal: Domination seeks control; actualization seeks development.
• Context: Domination is often "authoritarian," whereas actualization is "authoritative".
• Impact: Domination hampers growth, while actualization promotes "mission-driven creativity". 

While the "domination" approach is often ingrained, the shift to "actualization" represents a move toward partnership-oriented systems, where the goal is to foster human capacity rather than stifle it. 

And there you have it.  It would seem that Women would generally tend to prefer hierarchies of actualization rather than domination overall (while men tend to prefer hierarchies of domination, often to the point of a "king of the hill" game writ large, or perhaps a "pyramid scheme").  Note also that such a distinction should really be thought of as a spectrum rather than a binary, with many hierarchies falling somewhere in between in practice.  Also note how the apparent absence of formal hierarchy can create a power vacuum, and we all know how Nature feels about vacuums!  A sneaky, subtle, and informal hierarchy often develops in its place to fill the vacuum.  Natch. And clearly, at least in the MINDS of men, Women absolutely MUST occupy the "alpha" position, even if only as a placeholder to keep men from occupying that position, regardless of what the actual hierarchy is like in practice.

In other words, the truth is of course far more nuanced and complex than "hierarchies of domination are great and the natural order of things!" or "all hierarchies are bad and inherently unethical!".  And of course, such nuances don't fit easily onto a bumper sticker, T-shirt, or meme.  But that doesn't make it any less true.

If one were to distill it into a meme, bumper sticker, or T-shirt slogan, the best one would probably be, "Hierarchy is NOT a dirty word! Even bonobos have hierarchies, just more evolved ones".  (True by the way.)

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2-2-26 Bobby is Healed of Esophagus Cancer

 

          There’s a man with me who’s fat like Chares Laughton, & for some reason, he’s important to me. We are near a table & chairs & he’s facing away from them, I’m behind him & doing something unusual. I have put on him my thin, short, soft pink bathrobe that I wear a lot & I have the ties that I am putting across his chest somehow. I’m close behind him & after a while he says,

          “You’re just a tease”

          and he lies down on his left side between two chairs at the table.

          The scene changes. It now seems like there’s some sort of celebration. The people with me – friends – have all decided to spread out in this very large room {like at least 75’ both ways}. They are all in chairs & why they took on this formation, I have no idea.          I’ve been rehearsing a song in honor of this Charles Laughton guy where in the middle I sing a verse which is special to him. Was going to do it with some kids – but they don’t know the lyrics, so we can’t do the song.

          Charles has put himself into the middle of the room in my ‘Captain’s’ chair & somehow he’s shrunk so there’s room for me to put something next to him in the seat.  It’s a large, beautiful GREEN PEPPER. Usually as a sign of good will you might give someone an apple, so why the green pepper?

          MEANING:

          *{Two of the main symbols are your pink robe that you put on Charles & your own Captain’s chair, where you sit for the pc each day. Then there’s the song, a celebration, & the big bright very green & shiny Green Pepper.

          I would say this is a soul in Purgatory except for the green pepper, which seems a sign of health on earth. This leads me to suspect that you Anointed Bobby, who you prayed for on the phone yesterday to heal him of esophagus cancer.

Putting your robe on him is your MANTLE which is a sign of TOTAL SPIRITUAL POWER & PINK is HAPPINESS. {In the pink}

He isn’t sure about the healing taking pace – it seems too good to be true – so he says you’re TEASING him, like puffing his hopes up. Between two chairs might also be saying ‘not sure’ like between two ideas or beliefs, on his side might say, which side {left would be negative, he begins that way} does he believe, that he can be healed or not?

“Can’t sing the song” might be saying you can’t claim the victory yet because you don’t have backup or accompaniment, like other people to witness & confirm this.

Him in the Captain’s chair you usually occupy is another favorable sign. It’s like the throne or the symbol of SPIRITUAL POWER again – this chair is like the Throne of Grace, the King or Queen’s chair & now he’s in it so he’s receiving the Grace & the Power.

The last bit is that lovely green pepper. Mother God, explain this please.

MG: The beautiful green is the earthly life, now restored. He’s had trouble with indigestion – eating – they put him on a special restrictive diet. He said he’s been starving. So this is health food to say that he will be able to eat again & be well.

ME: Why is he Charles Laughton & fat?

MG: Fatness refers to being attached to the earth plane. But as you prayed he improved & by the time he was in the Captain’s Chair – not between 2 chairs of doubt – he had SHRUNK. Captain’s chair was he gained confidence in the spiritual Power, such as you have – he’s in your seat means he’s thinking like you, being like you – “I am the Captain!” His human ego or sense diminished, he humbled himself & believed you.

 ME: Why did the friends spread out in the giant room – why is the room so big?

MG: The room got big as his MIND WIDENED-you spoke about the Infinite God again & again, Infinite Love, Infinite Power. You got his mind on the BIG PICTURE. Yes, he saw himself & especially his malady as little, but the Power that could heal was BIG.

And the last mystery took me a day to discern – PEPPER. Pepper is a STIMULANT! Cayenne & other hot peppers stimulate the heart. Peppers are known for being ‘hot’ which brings things ‘to life’, gives these a boost. So that is what it is: This GREEN {earthly life, big, shiny, healthy} pepper is a GIFT of LIFE that I am giving Bobby!}*   {End}

 

Weeks ago {mid Jan. 2026} Heart Stops for Real

 

          I was flying high up in the sky in my white airplane when for some unknown reason, it stops in midair. The most frightening thing about this is a black airplane with a very wide mouth stopped directly behind me, & if this plane decides to move again it will ram right into me & kill me.

          So I wait in fear & suspense & thank God my plane starts up again, so I’m saved.

          MEANING:

          *{I’d been pushing myself with some outdoor work that day. I had the symptoms of heart trouble – pain in the left arm {that does happen sporadically} & shortness of breath. When I went to sleep this says my heart stopped & the wide-mouth black plane behind me was DEATH. But my heart started up again so I was saved. No one believes me, but I imagine the heart could stop half a minute or a minute or so without any damage to the brain & start up again.}*