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Paper 12, Patriarchal Culture: Authority, Belief & Obedience
Paper 12, Patriarchal Culture: Authority, Belief & Obedience
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It 's rational to say that our species today is dysfunctional. Global
mistrust, fear10, drug and alcohol abuse, dozens of brothels in
every city, sex and race discrimination, anger and hatreds,
massive child and adult porn, conflicts and wars, mass belief, rape
cultures, great frauds, elitist politics, countless refugees, etc., all
in our so-called modern society. When life is defined by
patriarchy's phallic-bloated egos lording it over mandatorilybeautified submissive (wo) men-who-aren't-men for 11,000 years,
dysfunction happens. Both 'men' are trapped in belief that we are
(hu) man, where being man in reality entails only being male,
prevails. When we compare what we are today with what we
were 12,000 years ago, we have few truths about ourselves and
what we are as a species.
To better understand ourselves as a species today, we have to go
back to the beginnings about what, when, where, why, who, and
how the species, that evolved as minded beings, began to unravel
to become 'two men of opposite sexes' in (hu) manity. We need
to know the very origins and sources of authority, belief and
obedience. The idea that both sexes were 'men' took over "the
wheel of life" and bulldozed the species for thousands of years.
The earliest account we have of the purposeful creation of 'a
whole-idea' that would affect our species, as opposed to creating
a tool we needed to make physical life better, is the Sumerian
idea that 'the phallus is supreme creator god'. John Allegro 1. In
9000 BCE a few elitist males made names denoting phallus
creator god: us, ah, u, el, etc., as in Yahweh, Allah, Jesus, Ptah,
Buddha, Zeus, Jupiter, etc. In fact, all the 'gods' of all major
religions carry one of the names of Phallus as-god. Patriarchy
would have power over mind-and-body with this idea. (See
Patriarchy's Timeline)
From 9000 BCE to about 1000 CE phallic festivals, celebrations,
parades and processions took place over the inhabited parts on
the globe. On Google one finds a plethora of sites on phallic
worship. You'll also find a cornucopia of images of phallic artifices