Nov 30, 2022·edited Nov 30, 2022Liked by Tereza Coraggio
Just one mild point of contention:
You said: "On my browser, a Pocket recommendation was “What we can learn about America from teenagers.” Why? What should we be learning from those who’ve never taken responsibility for themselves?"
Well, is one thing we could learn from teenagers, and that is how they would have handled the pandemic if they were in charge (and not first dosed with endless fearporn of course): NO LOCKDOWNS. Period. It would have been quite similar to what Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem did, basically. They might have even gotten to live out their ultimate fantasy and "grounded" their parents and/or grandparents for a few weeks "for their own good" to protect them from this very age-stratified virus, while young people went out and rapidly built up herd immunity, rather than stupidly lock everyone down and merely drag out the pandemic longer while doing massive collateral damage. Of course, they would be far too busy partying to enforce the "grounding", lol, so it would really be more of a guideline. But looking at Sweden, Belarus, Tanzania, Nicaragua, and the 12 US states that eschewed lockdowns entirely, plus the ones with only brief and mild lockdowns, who did similarly or better than their stricter neighbors, the teenager's favored approach would have not been any worse at least, and most likely better.
Who would have thunk that one of the wisest people during the entire pandemic was that young college spring breaker in Florida in March 2020 who nonchalantly yet defiantly said, "If I get corona, I get corona"? Well, in the end, he was right. We would all have been better off if cooler heads like his had prevailed.
Yes indeed, we live in a culture that fetishizes youth, but yet also vilifies and marginalizes youth as well depending on the context. It is one of the many strange love-hate relationships of patriarchy.
Nov 30, 2022·edited Nov 30, 2022Liked by Tereza Coraggio
Good article overall, Tereza. Especially that brilliant jab at Jordan Peterson at the end. Women are indeed the better half of humanity, and are thus the real natural born leaders. Matriarchy (not to be confused with simply reverse patriarchy!) is thus the only real solution.
Weirdly, just based on the title of your YT video and before I even watched it, I had already decided I would leave a comment about the current Galadriel disaster in Amazon’s “Rings of Power”. Then you mentioned Eisenstein’s comments on that series. (We must be tuned to the same subspace radio transmission from the Orion Nebula.) I don’t often read his substack, but I read his essay and while I find the current woke-ist confusion over gender especially telling about the state of western civilization, that is not exactly what bothered me most about the “Guy-ladriel” controversy (over which at least a couple hundred YouTubers are commenting, the best of which is Critical Drinker).
It may come off as unPC to not go off on a tirade about how monstrous this view of feminine power is and how it maligns the whole concept of matriarchy. But I don’t think it does…at least not in any materialistic way. All material power is the same, whether wielded by a man or a woman. (See George R.R. Martin’s works, not J.R.R. Tolkien’s, for that story.)
Where this series fails, is on the metaphysical level: it has none. There is almost nothing elven about any of the elves, especially Galadriel. She is not only devoid of the feminine mystique, she is devoid of all mystique. She has no magic. And this world has no enchantment. There is no divinity, masculine or feminine, in this series. It is rooted, instead, firmly in the dense materiality of the Amazon corporate boardroom. And materialism is always especially toxic to the divine feminine.
In Tolkien’s magic-infused world, elves were ethereal creatures. Only in our world can one of the largest corporations spend a billion dollars on a story-less, anti-mythical, CGI-intensive series and, unsurprisingly, turn Tolkien's world into just another shiny bauble of imperial soulessness.
This is a very worthwhile topic and I will study your whole article closely. Thank-you.
About, hells-bells, must of been about 16 years ago I made acquaintance with a fella, I think he was out of the northeast part of the us of a, and he was well traveled and an expert on the Minoan civilization in Crete. I believe in that civilization they took Matriarch's seriously and the ladies there had much authority. It made for better balance - too bad the Minoan Cretes got wiped out.....
I'll read it all and thanks for your efforts.
So far, a new day has always arisen and the sun shines day after day and I doubt that is gonna change anytime soon - only question left is who will be left to feel the sun.
The alleged heresy of the Knights Templar (which led to the dissolution of the organization and many being burned at the stake) was that they worshipped Baphomet. One wonders if that was considered especially egregious because of that imagined creature's sex.
Great essay. I am still stuck at places like healthy cultures support evolutions and unhealthy cultures support death. I've written about this. The Ouroboros. But one of the things I really like is how Russell Means speaks to the interdependence of men and women. 2nd video. I highly value distilling complex thoughts into simple form. I believe Means expressed this well. There is much complexity to be understood as well as you express. Will write about this down the road.
And near the end, of this video, accepting grief associated with the changes we, as humans and society, are going through https://youtu.be/86cEx7gXApo
You know that my bias is soil health for climate change mitigation and food security, in that field, almost all the leaders are women - each in their own way confronting the $158B agrichemical industry to create change.
Oct 20, 2022·edited Oct 20, 2022Liked by Tereza Coraggio
I have been thinking about the sacred masculine and sacred feminine, to counter the Trans and the woke. You have given me some things to ponder. Thank you.
Just one mild point of contention:
You said: "On my browser, a Pocket recommendation was “What we can learn about America from teenagers.” Why? What should we be learning from those who’ve never taken responsibility for themselves?"
Well, is one thing we could learn from teenagers, and that is how they would have handled the pandemic if they were in charge (and not first dosed with endless fearporn of course): NO LOCKDOWNS. Period. It would have been quite similar to what Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem did, basically. They might have even gotten to live out their ultimate fantasy and "grounded" their parents and/or grandparents for a few weeks "for their own good" to protect them from this very age-stratified virus, while young people went out and rapidly built up herd immunity, rather than stupidly lock everyone down and merely drag out the pandemic longer while doing massive collateral damage. Of course, they would be far too busy partying to enforce the "grounding", lol, so it would really be more of a guideline. But looking at Sweden, Belarus, Tanzania, Nicaragua, and the 12 US states that eschewed lockdowns entirely, plus the ones with only brief and mild lockdowns, who did similarly or better than their stricter neighbors, the teenager's favored approach would have not been any worse at least, and most likely better.
Who would have thunk that one of the wisest people during the entire pandemic was that young college spring breaker in Florida in March 2020 who nonchalantly yet defiantly said, "If I get corona, I get corona"? Well, in the end, he was right. We would all have been better off if cooler heads like his had prevailed.
Yes indeed, we live in a culture that fetishizes youth, but yet also vilifies and marginalizes youth as well depending on the context. It is one of the many strange love-hate relationships of patriarchy.
Good article overall, Tereza. Especially that brilliant jab at Jordan Peterson at the end. Women are indeed the better half of humanity, and are thus the real natural born leaders. Matriarchy (not to be confused with simply reverse patriarchy!) is thus the only real solution.
Weirdly, just based on the title of your YT video and before I even watched it, I had already decided I would leave a comment about the current Galadriel disaster in Amazon’s “Rings of Power”. Then you mentioned Eisenstein’s comments on that series. (We must be tuned to the same subspace radio transmission from the Orion Nebula.) I don’t often read his substack, but I read his essay and while I find the current woke-ist confusion over gender especially telling about the state of western civilization, that is not exactly what bothered me most about the “Guy-ladriel” controversy (over which at least a couple hundred YouTubers are commenting, the best of which is Critical Drinker).
It may come off as unPC to not go off on a tirade about how monstrous this view of feminine power is and how it maligns the whole concept of matriarchy. But I don’t think it does…at least not in any materialistic way. All material power is the same, whether wielded by a man or a woman. (See George R.R. Martin’s works, not J.R.R. Tolkien’s, for that story.)
Where this series fails, is on the metaphysical level: it has none. There is almost nothing elven about any of the elves, especially Galadriel. She is not only devoid of the feminine mystique, she is devoid of all mystique. She has no magic. And this world has no enchantment. There is no divinity, masculine or feminine, in this series. It is rooted, instead, firmly in the dense materiality of the Amazon corporate boardroom. And materialism is always especially toxic to the divine feminine.
In Tolkien’s magic-infused world, elves were ethereal creatures. Only in our world can one of the largest corporations spend a billion dollars on a story-less, anti-mythical, CGI-intensive series and, unsurprisingly, turn Tolkien's world into just another shiny bauble of imperial soulessness.
This is a very worthwhile topic and I will study your whole article closely. Thank-you.
About, hells-bells, must of been about 16 years ago I made acquaintance with a fella, I think he was out of the northeast part of the us of a, and he was well traveled and an expert on the Minoan civilization in Crete. I believe in that civilization they took Matriarch's seriously and the ladies there had much authority. It made for better balance - too bad the Minoan Cretes got wiped out.....
I'll read it all and thanks for your efforts.
So far, a new day has always arisen and the sun shines day after day and I doubt that is gonna change anytime soon - only question left is who will be left to feel the sun.
Peace,
Ken
It's a man's world
Women make the world go round
The alleged heresy of the Knights Templar (which led to the dissolution of the organization and many being burned at the stake) was that they worshipped Baphomet. One wonders if that was considered especially egregious because of that imagined creature's sex.
Great essay. I am still stuck at places like healthy cultures support evolutions and unhealthy cultures support death. I've written about this. The Ouroboros. But one of the things I really like is how Russell Means speaks to the interdependence of men and women. 2nd video. I highly value distilling complex thoughts into simple form. I believe Means expressed this well. There is much complexity to be understood as well as you express. Will write about this down the road.
Hi Tereza -
I'm guessing you saw these, but in case you didn't, some thoughts on
forgiveness https://tessa.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-forgiveness
tolerance https://medium.com/@auntiegrav/fight-bad-systems-not-people-stuck-in-them-92da855469e3
forgiveness https://medium.com/discourse/surround-yourself-with-bright-positive-glowing-people-and-lighten-up-9379c0b18808
tolerance https://medium.com/predict/super-organism-as-suicide-7fa216cd6601
And near the end, of this video, accepting grief associated with the changes we, as humans and society, are going through https://youtu.be/86cEx7gXApo
You know that my bias is soil health for climate change mitigation and food security, in that field, almost all the leaders are women - each in their own way confronting the $158B agrichemical industry to create change.
I have been thinking about the sacred masculine and sacred feminine, to counter the Trans and the woke. You have given me some things to ponder. Thank you.