God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir (Our National Parks Ch. 10)
Section 1: The Sacred Grove
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In Islamic culture, the land belongs to the Supreme God, and people must care for the land.
“The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbear, Most Forgiving!” (Qur’an 17:44)
“It is He Who hath made you (His) agents, inheritors of the earth: He hath raised you in ranks, some above others: that He may try you in the gifts He hath given you: for thy Lord is quick in punishment: yet He is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Qur’an 6:165)
This Islamic practice seems better than the Western industrial taker culture; however, does this harmony maintain the ecosystem, or have these communities only preserved interference? In Islamic towns, Nature serves the town. People in protected towns live separate from Nature. Such nonprogressive civilizations do fight a war with Nature but hit a temporary stalemate where life becomes a constant battle to patch up the wounds civilization keeps making on the Earth. Eventually, sustainable cultures become progressive when they break the stalemate and start beating Nature.
The idea of active maintenance allows progressives to claim that technology will one day maintain the ecosystem. Recycling would reduce the number of resources we need to harvest, and supposedly, this would create a culture in balance with Nature. It sounds good; it also traps us. Civilization found a new way to keep going while people become slaves to the recycling bin. Industrial civilization will continue to grow as it develops new ways to cultivate renewable resources, and people will lose more contact with Nature as our lives get absorbed by a cultivated imitation of ecosystems. Our forager ancestors maintained Nature by letting it grow on its own, and their culture was part of Nature’s balance, not over it. Such a proper earthling culture might not be possible in this age of agriculture.
How the Moon circles the Zodiac every 28 days reminds us of our natural cycles. Every species has a place in its environment and cannot leave this place and remain themselves. The place makes them. Imagine a bridge where Aphrodite represents the places you step. You cannot step over the side where there is nothing to step on. This nothing is a place you do not belong, a place that will kill you. Natural selection eliminates forms that do not belong anywhere, and this untouchable killer goes by the name Nem. These limits define the world that makes us what we are.
Species change when a change in the environment allows them to change. Humans change the environment, but not all change benefits us. For instance, people discovered how to use DDT as a pesticide, and some thought DDT would create a better world. A better world with DDT was never in their future. Instead of using it in moderation, people started spraying DDT over large agricultural areas. This led to a decline of predatory birds, as DDT poisoned the world (Carson, 1962). We needed a better understanding of our place in the environment.
Pain happens when we step over the limit. This warning means something has gone wrong, and you should do something else. The civilized feel pain when things go wrong, yet they fail to realize the pain warns them to stop progress. Instead, they continue to follow progressive goals, thinking they will do better next time, trying to touch what should never be touched, adding more changes, and breaking farther out of our natural limits. We doomed ourselves to chase the false promises of progress. Great expectations made the world unfit for life, and great expectations made us unfit for Nature. This was a sin.
Instead of worshiping imaginary gods, let us learn to value something real. The haters of life will make everything dead because civilization cannot leave anything alone. Let us leave a part of Nature alone. By saving a part of Nature, you save a piece of yourself. The Sacred Grove also grows inside you. Usually, the word grove refers to a small area of trees. We can use the word grove to refer to a lot more. Even a natural desert has value.
Never cut the Grove; each tree stands for a nymph, and if the nymph wants to remain a virgin, the tree must remain untouched. An untouched Sacred Grove needs a balance with Nature; therefore, if your forest occasionally burns down as part of its natural ecology, let it burn. In some groves, people can plant and take care of the trees, which may allow us to walk or play in them. Even then, leave something completely natural, something you don’t touch, where Nature does what Nature wants. Locate the Grove on desirable land since leaving it on land you don’t want, would be cheating. Make the Grove large, perhaps turning the entire state of California into a Sacred Grove.
Without the Grove, civilization sets unnatural limits on our lives. The Sacred Grove contains natural limits, and we must leave the Grove alone, even if a time may come when society claims it needs to touch the Grove. Surely, your tribe did something wrong if you people cannot leave a piece of land alone; how we treat our Sacred Grove would reflect how we manage ourselves. The Grove speaks for our respect, for everything we respect, and when the people destroy the Sacred Grove, people commit the ultimate sin. Societies do not need to all be the same, and we do not need this one global civilization we have today. Unhappiness happens when one society imposes its ways on another. Let each tribe find their limits and grow their grove.
Section 2: The Garden
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Gardens provide a protected place to get psychological relief from civilized stress. Zen gardens try to capture the essence of Nature, but the gardens seem too clean, too beautiful, and too peaceful. Nature has dangers, diseases, fires, and floods. Tolkien, in the book “The Lord of the Rings,” emphasizes the goodness of domesticated Nature represented by the Shire, where wolves and other dangers were exterminated. For life to grow, we need those dangers. Even a Beautiful garden becomes unnatural when life gets bent into unnaturally twisted forms. The seeds of corruption pervert people the same way it twists a bonsai tree.
Civilization breaks out of natural limits when it destroys the natural world, and the system grows when we invent compromises to make our cage seem acceptable. Beware of assuming you can control any aspect of technology, for even a small piece will grow to control you. Unfortunately, we will never eliminate civilization from the whole Earth. We can at least protect a few areas.
A leader of an environmental organization told me that talking about Nature inside was distracting us from protecting Nature outside. I tried to tell the leader how everything we protected would eventually get wiped out unless a change happened in culture. People believing in civilization made civilization, and to stop it, the world needs another belief. I believe people will appreciate Nature outside by appreciating Nature inside. We preserve the Sacred Grove that exists both inside and outside. Feel free to disagree with us, but if you harm the Sacred Grove, one of its guardians has the right to fight you.
Let us take a look at the popular world religions. The Bhagavad Gita talked about doing your duty while trusting a God named Krishna
“By performing one’s own work, one worships the Creator who dwells in every creature. Such worship brings that person to fulfillment.” (Gita 18:46)
The Koran says people need to submit to the God Allah.
“The Religion before Allah is Islam (submission to His Will): Nor did the People of the Book dissent therefrom except through envy of each other, after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of Allah, Allah is swift in calling to account.”(Qur’an 3:19)
The New Testament talks about salvation through Jesus.
“Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.” (John 3:36)
The Dhammapada mentions the lawful path of Buddha.
“All the effort must be made by you; Buddhas only show the way. Follow this path and practice meditation; go beyond the power of Mara.” (Dhammapada 276)
In the Torah, Yahweh gives Law to the chosen people.
“Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.” (Genesis 17:9)
The world sees all kinds of unhinged religions. Let us add another one to the list with this Sacred Grove religion. Instead of searching for comfort in an artificial garden, consider how Nature influenced people who lived close to the wilderness. Stories collected from Aboriginal Australians portray people interacting with animals as well as other objects in the environment (Parker, 1897). White men thought the foragers understood Nature because they lived close to the land. According to the European interpretation of Australian mythology, the Creator formed the Earth and gave the Australians their traditions during the Dreamtime. This Dreamtime embodies the story of the land and the people. These stories contain a reverence for the Earth and portray a people who had a continuity with Nature by being part of Nature’s continuity.
Popular literature says Native Americans celebrated a Great Spirit. This Great Spirit contains a great mystery learned by those who act in a sacred manner. People can talk about the Great Spirit while talking about stuff in Nature such as the Sun. This is kind of like Nature worship. At least such a religion seems to value stuff in Nature. Hollywood movies portray old Native Americans as wise and understanding of the Earth. That is an appealing story.
Not all pagans love Nature. In New York, a priestess would give gifts to the guardians of the elements to get control over the elements. This lady had no actual love for the elements. People who forgot how to love Nature emphasize the fear of Nature and control over objects. The priestess followed a tradition descended from a West African civilization. Though museums sometimes put artifacts from West Africa in the primitive culture section, scholars should have put these artifacts with the products of advanced civilization. West Africa had about the same technology as ancient Rome. Agricultural societies, such as ancient Rome and ancient Greece, used sacrifices to get favors from the gods. The need for control seems to be a common feature of civilized cultures, where not only are people controlled, but individuals feel the need to get control.
Instead of control, we should try to understand Nature. A circle of 28 pillars surrounding the temple maps the lunar cycle. The space between the pillars portrays a door to nowhere, on account of the nothing outside the cycles. Connect each pillar to its neighbor by a beam called an Eko, which personifies a virgin wood nymph, and the symbol for Eko resembles the symbol for Pi. An unbroken circle of 28 Ekos is about nine Ekos wide. Each Ekos should be wide enough for us to walk through. The lodge has a pillar in the middle, with beams connecting all other pillars, to stand for a body at the center of the temple surrounded by 28 days, where the four quarters of the temple divide the circle into four weeks. There are no rules for much of this temple you must build. It could be an actual structure or even a small circle on a mat. I do not even use a circle. I know it is there.
Sometimes, people tell me what structure belongs in a Natural society. Since these people were educated in liberal colleges, they were told that privilege is bad, so they think a Natural society would not have privileged people. I tried to tell them that privilege isn’t always bad. Let us not ignore how sometimes institutions groom the privilege to do more good than harm. Many great authors, artists, and inventors came from privilege. We do not need to cancel all functional structures in our society. A society that lives close to Nature could have multiple structures.
Section 3: The White Goddess
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Muslims condemn the worship of idols.
“Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin Most heinous indeed.” (Qur’an 4:48).
Ironically, Muslims bow to a Black Stone in Mecca. The Stone once belonged to a pagan feminine god, and the story about a feminine god being replaced by a masculine god inspired an extremely confused writer named Robert Graves, who thought a culture controlled by feminine people would worship a divine feminine called the White Goddess. According to Graves, feminine priestesses ran society before men took control. Graves ignored the ways men also invent feminine characters. According to the ancient Syrian writer Lucian, priestesses at the temples of the goddesses were men pretending to be feminine. A similar ancient practice still goes on today among the Hijra in India. Graves was wrong; however, a myth has more than one kind of truth. Notably, Wiccans adopted Grave’s Goddess as a name for the divine, and they seem fine.
In some cultures, our sisters are conditioned to act submissive and serve men. Enslaved people are denied the sense of worth all people need. People can try to find this worth and free themselves by finding a career. Our impoverished sisters have always had to work and had no other choice. Rich people get a career to feel more privileged. Of course, a lady who succeeds in a corporate society dominated by men deserves respect. Unfortunately, independent career people are a resource who serve a master called civilization. These privileged people are still enslaved. Nonetheless, imagine all the great accomplishments that would have happened if everyone had the same opportunities; We would have filled our history books with great feminine names along with great men.
Changes in Western cultures allow more feminine people to graduate from universities and go on to occupy positions of authority. Instead of a world dominated by philosopher kings, we are becoming a world of philosopher queens. Wiccans told me a culture run by feminine people would have improvements due to feminine people having more empathy than masculine people. I do not know if feminine people in power would make a difference. Hillary Clinton, Angela Merkel, and Margaret Thatcher were in positions of authority and behaved in ways similar to men in the same jobs. These women may have internalized male habits, or perhaps the feminine has the same flaws as the masculine. If our sisters can create a culture as evil as anything men made, a feminine Zeus would equal a masculine Zeus. The way people think about feminine people will change after women run the world. People will blame them for problems and no longer think of them as empathic. Next time you hear a feminine politician claiming to be more compassionate than their masculine rivals, check their history.
The Goddess does have many forms which have been ignored in the last few centuries. In the twentieth century, museums tended to label all feminine statues as fertility Goddesses, and writers of that time seemed obsessed with the label.
“Whether or not there was ever an ‘Age of the Goddess’ in Neolithic Europe, there certainly was one among European intellectuals in the mid twentieth century.” (Hutton, 2013 ch. 2)
The label supported the idea that all tribal traditions were only concerned with making babies and making crops grow. The labelers did not understand what the statues were, and they lumped all feminine gods into forms of the Great Mother, ignoring the difference between feminine characters. If masculine gods are portrayed with unique personalities, so can the feminine gods. Aphrodite and Artemis perform different jobs. The labelers did not know that all people are capable of diverse opinions about feminine images. In our culture female statues of Lady Liberty and Justice are not fertility Goddesses.
“Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of ancient pagans genuinely believed that the different goddesses were separate personalities.” (Hutton, 1999 ch. 2)
Feminine characters in mythology portray different perspectives, due to the world having unique kinds of feminine people, in the same way, the world has unique kinds of men. Our sisters are not all the same people, and the world has no one idealized form of the feminine. In the same way, there is no one idealized form of the masculine. To be clear, I am not saying you can not portray an exceptional feminine character. In fairy tales, masculine characters are commonly portrayed with abilities beyond normal people, and we can have feminine characters with the same abilities. Feminine people do not have to share the same interests as masculine people. Each of us has a story, and the role a person plays should be the individual’s choice.
The relationship between Gods and Goddesses in Europe has a complicated history. When domesticated wheat spread from Anatolia into Western Europe, the farmers replaced and assimilated the native foragers. The archeologist Marija Gimbutas thought these agricultural people had a Goddess culture. A few thousand years later, in the grasslands of Eastern Europe, people rode horses and celebrated a Sky Father, whose religion eventually spread into Western Europe. The Romans called this sky father Jupiter and the Greeks called it Zeus. Back where I grew up, older ladies used the name Papa Deus when they warned kids about divine punishment. These older women enthusiastically enforced the rules of the patriarchy and they had very little empathy.
You might assume the horse people conquered and subjugated the farmer; however, the farmers might have accepted the new authority of the sky father. Agricultural societies are loaded with rules. The farmers had already domesticated themselves and probably had both Gods and Goddesses to portray what farmers do. The patriarchy can not make you a slave unless you let it. Most people do not know they are slaves. They do what they think is normal. I do not blame men for all the inequality between the sexes because people of both sexes have encouraged bad points of view.
The feminist Bell Hooks recommended people get together to eliminate sexism in their minds.
“Effectively imitating the model of AA meetings,” (Hooks, 2000)
So now feminism is a joinable cult. Before you drink the Kool-Aid, Stop and ask if social activists have ever brought about social change. Though social activists write propaganda about themselves, reforms happen when technological and economic conditions require cultural changes. Engineers, explorers, and scientists create changes that change political and economic conditions, and the people involved in these changes come from all walks of life. Though social activists contribute little, the News and popular entertainment give activists good publicity. Gullible people assume that supporting feminism makes them part of something great.
We should beware of educators with strong political or religious views. The nuns at my school claimed to be inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi. Franciscans value charity and see themselves as the good guys. They are also really intolerant of any alternative thought. They will try to change the kind of person you are, and they will get in your head to clean all the dirty bits. What if we need those dirty bits? The nuns objected to something about my attitude. They wanted me to lie and pretend to be someone else. Pressures to reform will turn society into a culture of easily domesticated docile bodies. Manipulating a person’s Nature violates the Sacred Grove. In college, the feminist teachers were also intolerant of any alternative thought, and they were more demanding than the nuns ever were. So, if the White Goddess personifies goals that provide institutions with a means of control, the White Goddess is Apollo in one of its many forms.
Section 4: Jaguars
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In the ancient Mesopotamian creation story, the Enuma Elish, Tiamat is a source of monsters. The story could express a preference of people who want to make a feminine image look bad, and if that were true, Tiamat portrays a degraded form of the mother. However, we can invent a feminine villain without it being a degraded version of the Great Mother. I equate Tiamat with filth and corruption; anyone telling a story about filth and corruption can use the name Tiamat. Believing Nature must be clean and white allows us to lie to ourselves, so rather than expecting us to lie, let’s have an honest tradition. Those who lack the imagination necessary to accept Filth and corruption invented the unrealistic White Goddess.
While in South America, the servants told a story about Jesus going to live with the Jaguars, who treated Jesus well. Since the Jaguars represent the Scum of the Earth, the Thunder God did not want the son of God there, so the gods sent the police to chase Jesus from town to town. Jesus travels as a bum, bringing good luck to people who treat strangers well. Eventually, the police catch and crucify Jesus. This story has a kind of snob versus slob theme, a Thunder perspective versus Tiamat type story.
The other day, two social activists complained about a picture on a rock album where the cover shows a girl being absorbed by a male tree Demon while the girl had a look of sexual ecstasy. The activists claim the album cover reinforces values that encourage violence against feminine people. The images would not influence how society values feminine people if most people were smart enough to know the image only says something about a particular situation. Some see oppression, and others see a person in a comfortable position. Some sexual situations endanger us; however, people do not need protection from all bad sexual situations. We learn from bad situations and get wiser or stronger.
The psychologist Craig A. Anderson claims violent media desensitizes people to violence (Anderson, 2003). However, another psychologist named Christopher Ferguson disputes whether entertainment leads to actual harm (Ferguson, 2009). A person desensitized is not necessarily going to hurt anyone, and what people fantasize about does not always equal what happens in life. Censoring the image would not destroy the fantasy since people would continue to daydream in secret. Do we want a society where everyone lies about their thoughts?
Students interested in social justice have told me they are concerned about the harm of hate speech, and they think words can create a hostile environment. I question how much of this harm happens in life. I also doubt that changing speech reduces harm, and I asked the students if they knew of examples of people using restrained speech who had created a better environment. These people dislike being questioned. They got angry and accused me of being part of the problem. I was not asking just to be a jerk. I was interested in an answer. Ask other people the same kinds of questions, and most of them are happy to talk. These students think regular people are easily persuaded to be evil, and they think you are too dumb to think for yourself. Such students think their own opinion is a cure for your evil.
I always found the environment created by politically correct people to be creepy. It is not a better environment. Gargoyles will watch everything people say, and people will not realize they committed a thoughtcrime until after being fired from their job and condemned on the internet. This creates a world where everyone has to check every word, and people fear anything they say will be used against them. Do you want laws controlling speech to be enforced by people who find offense in more ways than anyone should? English laws, which are supposed to protect people from hate speech, have put thousands of people in jail (Parker, 2017). Meanwhile, universities have bias response teams to uncover and punish. People who want to control you easily forget about mercy and let spite justify their actions.
“In every case, subjectivity is all that’s needed to make a report — a student merely has to “feel” they were harmed or targeted in some way. This allows sensitive students or those seeking attention to punish others for saying things they don’t like.” (Schow, 2017)
Leftists will accuse you of making people feel excluded with the names you call those people, so they will expect you to use new words. This art of changing language gives progressives new reasons to complain about you. They do not care if old Western literature used those words to admire other cultures. I do not want to talk like a communist. Let us ignore what the NewSpeak dictionary says. Instead, let us talk the way our grandparents talked because our grandparents were good people who fought for America.
Discrimination exists. We find a mistrust of black people all over the world. Most white and Asian people do not understand what black people have to deal with. Liberals pretend to be allies of black people, and liberals use politically correct, but I’ve seen plenty of liberals walk past a black man who needed help. People who use politically incorrect words include your relatives, people you work with, people who have done good for other people, and people you love. Everyone is flawed in some ways and good in other ways, and this makes people interesting. I like interesting people. I’ve seen these interesting people stop and help other people.
The Jaguar portrays a real deadly part of Nature. Anyone willing to accept the Jaguar in themselves will have no problem with unrestrained speech. This idea came to me one day, and I feel very protective of it. Political correctness only allows a restrained, domesticated form of speech, and the outraged can manipulate society because people are afraid to stop them. Do not accept this attack on our Nature. They do not own you, so tell them to go away. My barbarian way of thinking says each of us can live as our Animals, without someone else dictating what we can do or think. Feel free to let your motivation grow naturally. The Beast Within has been locked up for too long, so open the door, let the Beast out, and then allow the Beast into our circles. We will rediscover the Sacred Grove.
Suppose you are a kid building a sand castle. Another kid says, “I can build a better sand castle,” and knocks your sand castle over. That kid is destined to grow up to be a humanities professor. I was told by one of those professors that comedians such as Benny Hill are sexist. Those humanities professors know how to knock down stuff ordinary people like, but I have never seen one build a better sand castle, so why should we listen to them? Instead of assuming that Benny Hill contributed to bad culture, let us consider whether our culture needs people like Benny Hill.
Section 5: Clowns
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The other day a cashier was trying to be friendly. Most people would not notice how a single adverb implies an extra meaning in a sentence, whereas someone looking for an offense will notice, and make a a lot of noise about it. These people see jokes as an attack of one side asserting power over another side. This tiny minority appointed themselves the thought police over everyone else, needing more attention than people want to give, wanting people to feel guilty for not agreeing with them, they are most offended by people who are not offended.
Offended people have found a home in cultural studies classes, notably Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, and Race Studies. They tell students that society supports privileged people, and teachers of these studies classes see themselves as providing analytical tools for social change. Are they promoting improvements? Robin DiAngelo complained about how white people become defensive when told that institutions give them advantages (DiAngelo, 2018). I doubt this attempt to guilt people will have good consequences. Why would culture improve when people realize how society allows the privilege to assert power? The powerful already know.
Tyranny does not shape every form of inequality, and those in power are not the only ones creating social situations. People who see themselves as victims also influence social situations. The rich are not always wrong, and the poor are not always right. Social situations have multiple factors and no one knows all the facts. Bad Scholars pretend to know how society works by making claims that can not be verified or falsified. Once a situation gets called systemic, there is no way to show that it’s not. A social hypothesis could be full of exaggeration, and when academics see an untested hypothesis in everything, they invent more demands for everyone to obey. So now your job has a long list of rules against saying something that they claim will hurt the feelings of a wide variety of identities.
If we are going to understand society, we need a better source than arrogant academics who only see what they want to see. Clowns have a kind of insight into everyday situations, providing a necessary part of the way a culture sees itself; clowns point out problems that serious people pretend do not exist. Intolerant people have a difficult time understanding clowns who break the rules. Examples include Bart Simpson, Peter Griffin, and South Park. Perhaps these characters say something about the maturity of those who like the characters, and perhaps a less obscene role model could replace Bart, but should it?
Clowns make fun of anyone who takes ideas too seriously, including anyone who wants to control other people by enforcing rules. These kinds of jokes protect the part of the Sacred Grove inside you that should never get manipulated. Clowns make good guardians of the Sacred Grove. Everyone has the right to laugh at you because sometimes we need to get laughed at. Some learn from the experience, but other people can’t take a joke because they guard their opinions instead of the Sacred Grove. Islamic extremists will kill people over a joke. Have you ever felt your plans are God’s plans? We all feel this way now and then. Taking ideas too seriously while assuming God thinks the same as us, we need a comedian to tell us we are not on a mission from God.
Sometimes there are good reasons to get offended, and a tactless person can be annoying. The psychologist Derald Wing Sue explained how people are not always aware of how their jokes hurt people, even when these people think their intentions are good (Sue, 2010). However, psychologist Scott Lilienfeld questioned if microaggressions lead to actual harm (Lilienfeld, 2017). Suppose a person asks a visitor where they come from to be friendly, and then a student calls the question a microaggression since it could make the visitor feel different. Such accusations create unnecessary conflicts where potential friends become your enemies. The visitor might welcome the question.
The supporters of political correctness fear words; any word they do not like normalizes something they do not like. Do jokes normalize patriarchy, rape culture, homophobia, and racism? How often does talk influence people’s behavior? Consider how often people talk about quitting a job and do not leave. Joking does not automatically make an act socially acceptable. The audience knows the act is unacceptable, and this understanding could be the reason for the joke. An offended person does not want to understand the intention of the joke and will not listen to explanations; they only respect their own demands.
Instead of talking, emotionally insecure people will run straight to an authority figure to get someone in trouble, manipulating opinions by claiming to be victims of the situation, even situations with entirely fictitious harm. We do not communicate by shaming people to apologize, though social tyrants think this public shaming will fix society. Do not let this outraged mob have control over your mind. No one needs to live the way tyrants dictate, and no one owes society an apology. Stand your ground like a Covington high school student.
No one knows what other people intend since we don’t even understand our own intentions, and no one will learn about people by making sociological assumptions about classifications of people. You get to know people by getting to know individuals, and no single person fits what the paranoid stories say about the group. Wrong assumptions will lead us to make a bunch of accusations against people over issues that do not even exist.
In playful conversation, the receiver is not always the loser. People use small insults to test each other, and how a person reacts to minor aggression will influence the kind of friendship that develops. The receiver has control over where the conversation goes, choosing to be a friend or an enemy. The thought police do not want you as a friend; they want you to obey their rules. Forcing people to suppress humor would not make the world a nicer place. Humor lets us feel each other’s thoughts, and understanding each other makes the world a better place. Humor allows people to get along without the matriarchy correcting them.
If you politely tell the offended that you did not appoint them boss over your morality, they will have a temper tantrum. Do not give them attention. The outraged do not understand that people are not trying to hurt them. These people want more safety than they need, and the need to feel safe makes them want more restrictions. Do not be surprised when the rules you impose on others eventually get used against your group. Progressives are creating a civilization without humor or trust where everyone claims to be a victim to get attention and people are punished without being allowed to speak. We will not be able to have public discussions when every sentence will offend attention seekers who interrupt by saying Point of Privilege. The matriarchy will be a world without danger or interesting people, but not as long as some feminine people want freedom and are willing to face some danger.
Section 6: Natural and Unnatural
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What if equality came about after civilized cultural changes and only advanced civilizations allowed people to be equal? Let us not jump to any conclusion because societies can organize themselves in a wide variety of ways. Treating all people equally might be natural, and it could have existed before civilization.
Everyone has an opinion on how to define Nature, and some opinions are wrong. A person can claim that letting feminine people have equal rights would be unnatural because cultures have traditionally kept our sisters enslaved. To explain why this person made a mistake, let’s consider what events are unnatural. Start by asking three questions.
1 – Does the event harm people?
2 – Do people need the event?
3 – How does the event influence the relationship people have with the rest of Nature?
These are not the best three questions. Surely you will think of better questions and better answers. Now let us answer how these questions relate to the event of feminine people having equal rights.
1 – A society becomes stronger when everyone has equal rights. Keeping people from prospering will cause psychological as well as physical harm to people.
2 – Traditions that fail to have equal rights are learned behavior and not instinct.
3 – Feminine people such as Rachel Carson, Dian Fossey, and Jane Goodall made significant contributions to protecting Nature.
In conclusion, equal rights for all people are not unnatural. Using the same three questions, we can infer homosexuality is not unnatural.
1 – Healthy homosexuality does not harm people.
2 – Homosexuals develop healthy relationships.
3 – What Homosexuals give or take from the world is the same as everyone else.
I also conclude that the use of DDT in agriculture is unnatural.
1 – It will move up the food chain and concentrate inside people.
2 – We can find better methods to maintain agricultural health.
3 – Widespread use of DDT affects necessary creatures.
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