Why the Stories Learned about Sex and Gender in the 60s Hold Us Back from Seeing and Standing up to Social Control Today
and intimations of a way forward
How to be serious befitting the time, yet playful as befitting one moving with ease through life? The serious self wants to really see what’s going on; the playful one, which is also the creative one, wants to see in new ways. A great overview of the serious showed up in my Inbox this morning from Dr. Mercola; in this case it was an interview with Dr. Meryl Nass, a doctor who dissented early from the Covid narrative and paid the price for doing so. Dr. Mercola’s posts are only up for 48 hours (social pressure don’t you know) but the video itself, without the commentary is on Bitchute here. She’s talking about the tyrannical global takeover by the powers that be which is certainly in play.
The playful part, the creative part is exercising our human freedom and will: What do we do with a globalist power grab? Not get angry or frustrated or resigned and hopeless. But not ignore it either. It’s an opportunity to show up and be present, to learn and live and to practice being aligned with our deepest and highest values. Hopefully we have these or are waking up to them because an attempt at more control is surely coming. How we respond is up to us. And nothing is more important than the way that we turn and address the exquisite and amazing challenge of this particular moment. As Henry Miller says, "... for on how one orients oneself to the moment depends the failure or fruitfulness of it." (A friend who might know these things tell me that Tibetan monks like to read Henry Miller. That reflects well on them.)
Miller is a simple honest man with his own voice but it’s our voice we need. And that’s serious because we have to address a life-or-death situation when our cultural norm and training is to avoid those like the plague.
So often when we talk about “the world” we don’t get that it’s talking about our world and us and the losses that our families and communities have suffered and are in line to suffer more
I came of age as a young man in the '68, a time of steep femnist ascendancy, a little like Covid in its intensity and ubiquity. I, and most everyone of my age, bought it all. And most never looked back. They went on to raise children in that understanding who in turn raised others. My sense from a long history in men's circles, is that virtually all men were touched with a sense of their sins against the feminine. Their natural attraction to honor and the sense of men as warriors in service to family and nation was deeply besmirched. It's still breaking a taboo for men to look at this because it seems anti-woman to speak to it.
Women don’t easily reflect on the history either because, on the surface of things, it seems like disloyalty to other women. Of course (can I say “of course” now?) it's not anti-woman since feminism was as counterproductive for women as it was for men. The reality is we’re in it together.
The man-woman debacle of the past few generations is a powerful case study for understanding what's happening in the world. It's not abstract or far away but rather a microcosm of a war we all took part in and witnessed or, more commonly, were ourselves the casualties in. In other words, we’ve all got skin in the game.
When I’m in groups of men I’m touched by the deep and healthy respect and connection that’s wanted and present. Men’s nature is to be fighters for truth and freedom; that’s when we come come most alive. The fact that this is seldom seen, and often mocked, is not a reflection on men. It’s a reflection of how powerful interests can seize narrative control. This is the narrative control we see in China and that’s planned for us. The video I opened with will tell a lot of how this is actually happening now. It’s not a theory but as deliberate and real as a cricket planned for your plate.
What’s happening now is a psychological operation, a psyop who’s intention is to control the world system down to the smallest detail. Or if you like, the business plan of the wealthiest people in the world. “World system” is much too abstract. I mean it’s a psyop who’s intention is to control you. The man-woman confusion spawned in the 50s and 60s is an instance of it albeit an important one. Though sown long ago it acts like a virus and has led to profoundly more widespread and deep confusion.
I think that the personal voices of men together and of women together - and then the two coming together as allies - is a restorative force that we need now. Because so often when we talk about “the world” we don’t get that it’s talking about our world and us and the losses that our families and communities have suffered and are in line to suffer more. That’s the challenge ahead. I hope readers will contribute to this with their voices.
I’ll be writing more about the intensely personal roots of the larger problem and especially about men and women - more men because I am one but a similar journey awaits women: The larger problem comes down to the sense of power and voice we have in our communities; that’s where the future will be built. I have a lot to learn about that myself. About having allies and friends who can back us up when we step out past our comfort zone. About trust in God, family and local freedom and control. About having a new story about sex and gender that gives us back our ancient strengths.
Andrew