Posted by alexandra_k on May 26, 2018, at 23:11:45
In reply to Re: newspaper cancelled, posted by alexandra_k on May 26, 2018, at 22:48:10
and i'm not sure on how much there is a... intentionality... compared to a spontaneity about it all.
something something about the free market and the invisible hand. to think that spontaneously things will be thus and so and then the role of the hand to guide things subtly or gently for better or worse.
i think in many males... how many males? i don't know... a quarter? i don't know... there is this drive to dominate / control. or something. and not just males. some females have this, too.
much of the 'equal rights' modern day feminism sort of stuff... i mean... the television shows or whatever that portray women as having equal power to men intrinsically... do that by way of portraying women as sexual agressors. or as being sort of 'meh' about sexual contact. so deciding whether or not to engage in sexual relations with this or that person is not much more emotionally involving than deciding whether or not to... go for a walk with a person (maybe unpleasant but not traumatising). this is the 'resiliance' or 'robustness' that suits... male agressors.
that is a game that some people like to play...
but the free market... historically... the story is one of the subjugation of women by physical force. say whatever you want about womens rights and portray women however you want on television we don't know much more than myth and folklore (i'm fairly sure) about matriarchial societies. if there was one once... you need a plausible story of how they have plausibly have control over essential resources (e.g., food) in such a way that it can't simply be beaten out of them.
often bands of fighting males playing the hierarchical alpha game... for control of the females.
some males... hiding by subterfuge / stealth amongst the females...
females... banding together like alpackas.
and an invisible hand...
greater cooperativity...
so more time can be spent engaging in productive activity instead of in warily scanning the horizon. or in... i don't know... displaying whatever trama f*ck*d up weirdness that comes of not being robust enough to deal with the... uh... way life is.
that was why the internet was liberating. so why it had to go away / be swiftly undermined.
the theraputic potential was too great. the potential for greater inclusion for more people.
a wasteland...
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