Hi Tereza. Happy Day after the Fourth! This essay strikes a chord with me of course. One of the essays I am working on speaks about either the embracing of the extreme masculine or extreme feminine being way out of balance. It is no wonder we find ourselves out of balance after thousands of years of extreme masculine focus.
We must find a way back to balance between light & dark, between patriarchy and matriarchy, between sky gods and earth gods, between individuality and the collective, between independence and interdependence and so on.
Societies, empires, ecosystems and our natural bodies work hard to stay in homeostasis.
Yes yes yes yes yes! That's exactly what I'm trying to get at with my tonic vs. toxic masculinity series. I'm looking forward to reading that! And I don't picture it as less of either--I think true masculinity and femininity always emerge in balance. It's when one has just the outer wrapping without the substance that it's out of whack.
Just last week, I was tossing around the heretical idea that at least some «social organisms» are in fact quite primitive: https://ratsays.substack.com/p/infusoria
But then... primitive organisms are pretty much immortal.
Rat! Thank you for recommending my post in Notes! It already brought a new sub from someone who doesn't sub anyone else I know, such a refreshing addition to our close-knit group. I'm always happy to read your rodent heresies!
Hi Tereza, for all the nay sayers to your plan, I just have questions: How is the current US banking system working out for you and your community? How is that Washington DC central gov't run by corrupt politicians working out for you? I have nothing in common with them. I do have common interests with people in my community. And how about the wall street gambling gang, are you winning yet?
Great point! My answer to William's plan was that, as czar of his fiefdom, we should put his and mine into a computer simulation and see which one created more productive exchanges before getting siphoned out. Give me data!
So great to see that beautiful profile pic and have a face on my friend!
Thanks Tereza, So I say if it worked for Franklin it should work for us. And they still had the species or whatever they called it to use outside the area. On another note, I can't get the Lavrov interview I posted to have it be read aloud to me and its a long one! So if you have any insight on how to accomplish this please send it my way, if not I will contact the substack help dept. PS: We have blue skies with puffy clouds too, so its a good day here.
Glad to hear you have some sun! My tech skills are limited to the little I've been able to figure out to post my YT and this. But good luck with the substack staff, I hope they can help.
And exactly on Franklin's plan. What William isn't calculating is the extra money coming in if you switch mortgages to community-owned, which will get sucked right into the welfare system he's trying to curb. He also has the interest for mortgages going up the more expensive a house is. So it's like a progressive tax to make up for no income tax. Since the rich are snapping up houses in all cash deals, through their hedge funds, that's just going to make them as high as the market can bear and leave us all renters!
But don't mind me, I'll go back to my knitting (which I did in fact pack for my trip today to visit two of my daughters in San Diego!)
LOL! You know how to knit, that's great. I only learned crocheting and sewing (which is great to know) if they limit us to 3 articles of clothing. I will have to buy bolts of material. I'll look like a curtain, lol.
I really need to familiarize myself more with your domain because it overlaps and fills some gaps in my own attempt to connect the dots. During a few of my YT sprees, Catherine Austin Fitts has consistently popped up on my radar, and I particularly remember her recent observation that shocked me, and didn't, (paraphrasing from memory) — "Historically, and even now, by far the most profitable returns on 'investment' has been human slavery."
This leads to so many rabbit holes of inquiry, all converging to a terminal look at what it means to be human. But I'm still too busy, struggling to just survive a Japanese corporate nation-state skulking in the shadows of the American empire.
Now making more trustworthy connections with locals, mostly local artisans and musicians, I am attempting to set up my own regular conversation corner of exploring values clarification, the nature of 'belief', what it means to be human, and so on ... under the cover of "English Conversation" classes.
But even so, the psychopathic, corporate nation-state over here is relentlessly busy erecting surveillance technology and laws that will easily turn it into feudal, population-control technology, crushing the capacity of individuals and communities to independently survive, much less flourish. While Matt Taibbi's 'vampire squid' metaphor was apt for Goldman Sachs 24 years ago, its arms are now revealed to be the arms of Hobbes' Leviathan — globalists, deep players of the nation-state, and corporatist cronies alike.
In his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", MLK Jr. correctly hinted at the psychopathy of institutions with his reference to Reinhold Niebuhr's insight " ... individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but ... groups are more immoral than individuals." I remember chatting about this before, but my hedge is "groups" too casually conflates rule-driven (and gamed) institutions with empathy-driven communities. Institutions, should be treated as a scaling of psychopathic behavior and judged as they are trying to judge us ... sick until proven healthy, guilty until proven innocent.
The price of survival here is high. I don't have the time for the deep dives into deserving thinkers here on substack, YT, or authors of my growing Kindle collection, and am increasingly more of a passive observer on the margins of digital communities. The information overload is now so overwhelming, I am unable to even find my own voice, much less add to the chorus.
But I DO need to add your book to my resources. I just checked on Amazon, not available in Japan, and only paperback, shipped from the U.S. ... almost doubling the price. I was just wondering if you have a distributor selling a digital version? And if not, what hoops would you (we?) have to jump through to make one?
Maybe synchronicity at work here, but I am now in chats with author Stephen Vlastos about the same thing, getting this book into digital format ... https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520072039/peasant-protests-and-uprisings-in-tokugawa-japan. I've yet to see a good Japanese equivalence of Zinn's History, but Vlastos is a good start, and a good hint at what the current crop of sociopaths have in mind for us.
Hello, Steve! Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been visiting my daughters in San Diego. The price of survival has been a big topic here too. My youngest is spending 70% of her income on rent, for a sketchy apt with angry and violent homeless people lurking on the corner. The middle daughter's rent just went up again, as it's done every year. It will keep going up as high as the market can bear so no one can ever get ahead.
I thought that at some point I had sent you a digital copy of my book, at the same time I sent it to Maria in Australia, but maybe that was Colin in New Zealand? In any case, I'm happy to send it to you. I've realized it's not available in that corner of the world. Send me a note to tereza with the thirdparadigm.org address.
Thank you again Tereza. You really are brilliant. I recently discovered Matt and really enjoy listening to him but I can't agree with him about Hamilton. Anybody that our Khazarian Rhadnite controllers celebrate like Hamilton and that Musical cannot be in regular humans best interest. I somehow feel it is important that we often see Franklin grabbing electricity out of the sky in much the same way we see Tesla doing the same. Somebody is trying to tell us that this Rockefeller/Rothschild/Khazarian Medical/Energy/Education/Government/Financial system is not the way we are made to live. The fact that Franklin had the start of a great monetary/financial system is important. I'll follow up sorry.
Haha, sooner or later I'm going to get you to change your online handle to scrip ;-) You can be the walking (or typing) embodiment of regenerative community-building money.
I enjoy Matt too, despite our differences. There was something that the Hamilton author offered free passes for, I forget what it was, but it was counter to everything I thought someone from the Philippines should be for. It certainly made Hamilton into a rock star! Even my daughters know the lyrics ;-)
Thank you for the very kind compliment and the hope for the future!
Thanks for the provocative piece. Never fully appreciated what the Shays Rebellion meant. Have always had a dislike for Hamilton. Your responses to "William" were classic.
Thank you Howard. It's funny that I first read about Shay's Rebellion correcting some spelling exercise in a workbook when my girls were little. I was proofreading it and reading between the lines and thinking, "Wait a minute, why is this a bad thing?" I still don't know if the author was slipping it in or not. It was years later that I read about it in Zinn's A People's History.
Toxic masculinity is a phrase The Left uses with impunity to emasculate and control. They do that with a lot of phrases. For that reason I hate that you are propagating the term. Doesn’t mean I disagree with your premise but I refuse to advance the lexicon of The Left by a millimeter. They constantly pull their labelmakers out of their holsters, take aim and fire! And we (mostly) all fall down. I’m not playing the Newspeak game Gretchen Whitmer can go to hell.
Ah I'm not sure if you've been reading long enough to know my Tonic Masculinity series, which probably has eight or more posts in it. Toxic is not a term I'm using casually and my belief is that we need to define any terms that are in our arguments. We, I think, need to reclaim all the words rather than surrender them to their meaning.
Toxic means poison and what's poison to the realization that we're One is our desire to be superior over others. Hilary and Nuland are patriarchs without penises, as toxically masculine as you can get. Imperialism is superiority and domination, something we all need to excise from our thinking.
I agree completely that we need to reclaim the true masculine in all of us, along with the true feminine, which has nothing to do with outward appearances. Take back the words, don't give them up to the propagandists. Force them to define their terms whenever they use them, and then dissect them. That's my approach, at least.
Thank you Philip and thank you for recommending my 'stack. I'm guessing that you meant 'undermine' but since we both believe there are no mistakes, I'm thinking of this as the world we are NOT pining for, as we ARE pining and pining for the one to come ;-)
Hi Tereza. Happy Day after the Fourth! This essay strikes a chord with me of course. One of the essays I am working on speaks about either the embracing of the extreme masculine or extreme feminine being way out of balance. It is no wonder we find ourselves out of balance after thousands of years of extreme masculine focus.
We must find a way back to balance between light & dark, between patriarchy and matriarchy, between sky gods and earth gods, between individuality and the collective, between independence and interdependence and so on.
Societies, empires, ecosystems and our natural bodies work hard to stay in homeostasis.
Homeostasis is what we seek. We seek balance.
Yes yes yes yes yes! That's exactly what I'm trying to get at with my tonic vs. toxic masculinity series. I'm looking forward to reading that! And I don't picture it as less of either--I think true masculinity and femininity always emerge in balance. It's when one has just the outer wrapping without the substance that it's out of whack.
Appreciate your wisdom and this comment thanks.
Just last week, I was tossing around the heretical idea that at least some «social organisms» are in fact quite primitive: https://ratsays.substack.com/p/infusoria
But then... primitive organisms are pretty much immortal.
Rat! Thank you for recommending my post in Notes! It already brought a new sub from someone who doesn't sub anyone else I know, such a refreshing addition to our close-knit group. I'm always happy to read your rodent heresies!
Hi Tereza, for all the nay sayers to your plan, I just have questions: How is the current US banking system working out for you and your community? How is that Washington DC central gov't run by corrupt politicians working out for you? I have nothing in common with them. I do have common interests with people in my community. And how about the wall street gambling gang, are you winning yet?
Great point! My answer to William's plan was that, as czar of his fiefdom, we should put his and mine into a computer simulation and see which one created more productive exchanges before getting siphoned out. Give me data!
So great to see that beautiful profile pic and have a face on my friend!
Thanks Tereza, So I say if it worked for Franklin it should work for us. And they still had the species or whatever they called it to use outside the area. On another note, I can't get the Lavrov interview I posted to have it be read aloud to me and its a long one! So if you have any insight on how to accomplish this please send it my way, if not I will contact the substack help dept. PS: We have blue skies with puffy clouds too, so its a good day here.
Glad to hear you have some sun! My tech skills are limited to the little I've been able to figure out to post my YT and this. But good luck with the substack staff, I hope they can help.
And exactly on Franklin's plan. What William isn't calculating is the extra money coming in if you switch mortgages to community-owned, which will get sucked right into the welfare system he's trying to curb. He also has the interest for mortgages going up the more expensive a house is. So it's like a progressive tax to make up for no income tax. Since the rich are snapping up houses in all cash deals, through their hedge funds, that's just going to make them as high as the market can bear and leave us all renters!
But don't mind me, I'll go back to my knitting (which I did in fact pack for my trip today to visit two of my daughters in San Diego!)
LOL! You know how to knit, that's great. I only learned crocheting and sewing (which is great to know) if they limit us to 3 articles of clothing. I will have to buy bolts of material. I'll look like a curtain, lol.
Hi Tereza,
I really need to familiarize myself more with your domain because it overlaps and fills some gaps in my own attempt to connect the dots. During a few of my YT sprees, Catherine Austin Fitts has consistently popped up on my radar, and I particularly remember her recent observation that shocked me, and didn't, (paraphrasing from memory) — "Historically, and even now, by far the most profitable returns on 'investment' has been human slavery."
This leads to so many rabbit holes of inquiry, all converging to a terminal look at what it means to be human. But I'm still too busy, struggling to just survive a Japanese corporate nation-state skulking in the shadows of the American empire.
Now making more trustworthy connections with locals, mostly local artisans and musicians, I am attempting to set up my own regular conversation corner of exploring values clarification, the nature of 'belief', what it means to be human, and so on ... under the cover of "English Conversation" classes.
But even so, the psychopathic, corporate nation-state over here is relentlessly busy erecting surveillance technology and laws that will easily turn it into feudal, population-control technology, crushing the capacity of individuals and communities to independently survive, much less flourish. While Matt Taibbi's 'vampire squid' metaphor was apt for Goldman Sachs 24 years ago, its arms are now revealed to be the arms of Hobbes' Leviathan — globalists, deep players of the nation-state, and corporatist cronies alike.
In his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", MLK Jr. correctly hinted at the psychopathy of institutions with his reference to Reinhold Niebuhr's insight " ... individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but ... groups are more immoral than individuals." I remember chatting about this before, but my hedge is "groups" too casually conflates rule-driven (and gamed) institutions with empathy-driven communities. Institutions, should be treated as a scaling of psychopathic behavior and judged as they are trying to judge us ... sick until proven healthy, guilty until proven innocent.
The price of survival here is high. I don't have the time for the deep dives into deserving thinkers here on substack, YT, or authors of my growing Kindle collection, and am increasingly more of a passive observer on the margins of digital communities. The information overload is now so overwhelming, I am unable to even find my own voice, much less add to the chorus.
But I DO need to add your book to my resources. I just checked on Amazon, not available in Japan, and only paperback, shipped from the U.S. ... almost doubling the price. I was just wondering if you have a distributor selling a digital version? And if not, what hoops would you (we?) have to jump through to make one?
Maybe synchronicity at work here, but I am now in chats with author Stephen Vlastos about the same thing, getting this book into digital format ... https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520072039/peasant-protests-and-uprisings-in-tokugawa-japan. I've yet to see a good Japanese equivalence of Zinn's History, but Vlastos is a good start, and a good hint at what the current crop of sociopaths have in mind for us.
Cheers Tereza!
Hello, Steve! Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been visiting my daughters in San Diego. The price of survival has been a big topic here too. My youngest is spending 70% of her income on rent, for a sketchy apt with angry and violent homeless people lurking on the corner. The middle daughter's rent just went up again, as it's done every year. It will keep going up as high as the market can bear so no one can ever get ahead.
I thought that at some point I had sent you a digital copy of my book, at the same time I sent it to Maria in Australia, but maybe that was Colin in New Zealand? In any case, I'm happy to send it to you. I've realized it's not available in that corner of the world. Send me a note to tereza with the thirdparadigm.org address.
Hi Tereza.
Thank you for the kind offer.
I keep getting blanks when typing 'thirdparadigm.org.' address, so will send a note to you through your subscriber's address.
Thanks again.
Looking forward to the read.
Though I fed the crows this morning, no breakfast for me, and now can't think anything but " lunch".
Cheers Tereza!
steve
Thank you again Tereza. You really are brilliant. I recently discovered Matt and really enjoy listening to him but I can't agree with him about Hamilton. Anybody that our Khazarian Rhadnite controllers celebrate like Hamilton and that Musical cannot be in regular humans best interest. I somehow feel it is important that we often see Franklin grabbing electricity out of the sky in much the same way we see Tesla doing the same. Somebody is trying to tell us that this Rockefeller/Rothschild/Khazarian Medical/Energy/Education/Government/Financial system is not the way we are made to live. The fact that Franklin had the start of a great monetary/financial system is important. I'll follow up sorry.
Haha, sooner or later I'm going to get you to change your online handle to scrip ;-) You can be the walking (or typing) embodiment of regenerative community-building money.
I enjoy Matt too, despite our differences. There was something that the Hamilton author offered free passes for, I forget what it was, but it was counter to everything I thought someone from the Philippines should be for. It certainly made Hamilton into a rock star! Even my daughters know the lyrics ;-)
Thank you for the very kind compliment and the hope for the future!
Thanks for the provocative piece. Never fully appreciated what the Shays Rebellion meant. Have always had a dislike for Hamilton. Your responses to "William" were classic.
Thank you Howard. It's funny that I first read about Shay's Rebellion correcting some spelling exercise in a workbook when my girls were little. I was proofreading it and reading between the lines and thinking, "Wait a minute, why is this a bad thing?" I still don't know if the author was slipping it in or not. It was years later that I read about it in Zinn's A People's History.
Glad there's another non-fan of Hamilton.
Toxic masculinity is a phrase The Left uses with impunity to emasculate and control. They do that with a lot of phrases. For that reason I hate that you are propagating the term. Doesn’t mean I disagree with your premise but I refuse to advance the lexicon of The Left by a millimeter. They constantly pull their labelmakers out of their holsters, take aim and fire! And we (mostly) all fall down. I’m not playing the Newspeak game Gretchen Whitmer can go to hell.
Ah I'm not sure if you've been reading long enough to know my Tonic Masculinity series, which probably has eight or more posts in it. Toxic is not a term I'm using casually and my belief is that we need to define any terms that are in our arguments. We, I think, need to reclaim all the words rather than surrender them to their meaning.
Toxic means poison and what's poison to the realization that we're One is our desire to be superior over others. Hilary and Nuland are patriarchs without penises, as toxically masculine as you can get. Imperialism is superiority and domination, something we all need to excise from our thinking.
I agree completely that we need to reclaim the true masculine in all of us, along with the true feminine, which has nothing to do with outward appearances. Take back the words, don't give them up to the propagandists. Force them to define their terms whenever they use them, and then dissect them. That's my approach, at least.
Keep spreading the seeds of change that will underpine the Shifted world!
Thank you Philip and thank you for recommending my 'stack. I'm guessing that you meant 'undermine' but since we both believe there are no mistakes, I'm thinking of this as the world we are NOT pining for, as we ARE pining and pining for the one to come ;-)
"Underpinnings" was the word I had in mind, but cheers regardless.
Word!!!