I brought this idea to a feminist friend of mine, and she totally exploded: mention at your own risk! There are of course many dominant characteristics of womanhood. Here are a few, and how they relate to what I see in the communism of today. Emphasis upon feeling rather than thinking. Though this trait is often a welcomed companion to man's machine-like logic, it is clearly disastrous when the government & media demand that the people act upon their feelings instead of thinkings, since feelings are much easier to manipulate than facts. Everyone gets the same amount of love. It's a beautiful, motherly instinct, but when genuinely applied to society as a whole it results in putting incapable people into positions that they can't handle: as seen in Affirmative Action, or hiring based upon quotas. What about everyone gets the same amount of food - money - resources?. This rule is manageable within a small family, but applying it to an entire country (or world) would require a totalitarian degree of nightmare control. Everybody wins just for trying. What is more gratifying than seeing the mentally challenged kid feel good about themselves? It's great, but what happens to society when this same kid is portrayed to the masses as "the greatest ever"? Does it destroy the motivation of the truly capable, or lower the bar of human potential? Does anyone see any other common traits?
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (6)
sorted by:
Brilliant analysis, and it goes much deeper than this. Keep digging.
As an aside (is this an aside or a bullseye?)... Judaism began tracing lineages via the mother starting in about 300 AD. So Jews are by definition matriarchal. The origins of Communism. Dig.