The Inner Trinity: the Heart, the Mind, and the Penis
In the beginning was the Penis.
Yes, this post is about the inner life of men.
But by happenstance, the Penis discovered that it could spread over the land a lot better and faster if it had a Mind to plan tactics and a Heart to build a protective, supportive community. But the Mind and the Heart sometimes have ideas or ideals of their own, independent of the Penis. Hence the inner conflicts of Man.
The Mind realized that not only could it figure out the world around it to grow food and build houses, that the world is about more than what or how, but also when, who, and why. The Heart realized that maybe, if I am human and am worthy of care, and my child is human, maybe the woman my child came from is human, and if my parents are human, maybe her parents are human, and if my tribe is human, then maybe that other tribe is too, so maybe we shouldn't go and kill all of them and take their land just because the Penis told us to.
But the Penis is older than the Mind or the Heart. It got here first. It built the body the Mind and Heart exist within, so the Penis is always there, urging us forward, to win the evolutionary game.
If a man is psychologically healthy, the Mind, the Heart, and the Penis have a democratic process going on. If a man meets a woman, and his Mind and Heart like her, but the Penis says no, he wants to be friends, maybe even good friends. If the Heart and Penis say yes, you get a romance (even if the Mind says, no, no, no you idiot, don't you remember the last time you dated a girl like her?). If all three agree, he should probably marry her.
If a man is unbalanced, people will go around thinking or even saying that he's weird or wrong. If a man's Mind is too dominate, we call him names. Nerd. Geek. Egghead. Never mind that such men are responsible for all the science and technology around you right now. Most of the ills of technology come from men of the Mind inventing things that then get used by men of the Penis. Dynamite was supposed to be a mining tool. Gunpowder was for fireworks. The Internet was for academic exchange and national defense, not porn and slander.
If a man's Heart is dominate, people will think he's crazy. He'll start talking about how all men are brothers, how we should turn the other cheek, love our enemies, and not throw stones. He will throw rich men out of the church for profaning its holiness. Men of the Penis will nail him up on a cross and go to war.
If a man's Penis is dominate, we'll elect him President. Well, that's a joke in poor taste, perhaps, but I can think of at least two presidents off the top of my head whose penis got the better of them in their sexual activities, and two more in our foreign policies.
In our day to day lives, the Penis people are the dumb jocks, the money grubbers who just go to college to get an MBA so they can make a killing not caring who gets killed (I don't understand how tobacco or SUV manufactures sleep at night), and anyone who cheats to win, or cheats on his wife.
I'm tempted to write a verison of this for what I suspect goes on inside women, but I think there's more than three and English doesn't have very polite words for some of them, so I will refrain and let women do the writing on that.
Yes, this post is about the inner life of men.
But by happenstance, the Penis discovered that it could spread over the land a lot better and faster if it had a Mind to plan tactics and a Heart to build a protective, supportive community. But the Mind and the Heart sometimes have ideas or ideals of their own, independent of the Penis. Hence the inner conflicts of Man.
The Mind realized that not only could it figure out the world around it to grow food and build houses, that the world is about more than what or how, but also when, who, and why. The Heart realized that maybe, if I am human and am worthy of care, and my child is human, maybe the woman my child came from is human, and if my parents are human, maybe her parents are human, and if my tribe is human, then maybe that other tribe is too, so maybe we shouldn't go and kill all of them and take their land just because the Penis told us to.
But the Penis is older than the Mind or the Heart. It got here first. It built the body the Mind and Heart exist within, so the Penis is always there, urging us forward, to win the evolutionary game.
If a man is psychologically healthy, the Mind, the Heart, and the Penis have a democratic process going on. If a man meets a woman, and his Mind and Heart like her, but the Penis says no, he wants to be friends, maybe even good friends. If the Heart and Penis say yes, you get a romance (even if the Mind says, no, no, no you idiot, don't you remember the last time you dated a girl like her?). If all three agree, he should probably marry her.
If a man is unbalanced, people will go around thinking or even saying that he's weird or wrong. If a man's Mind is too dominate, we call him names. Nerd. Geek. Egghead. Never mind that such men are responsible for all the science and technology around you right now. Most of the ills of technology come from men of the Mind inventing things that then get used by men of the Penis. Dynamite was supposed to be a mining tool. Gunpowder was for fireworks. The Internet was for academic exchange and national defense, not porn and slander.
If a man's Heart is dominate, people will think he's crazy. He'll start talking about how all men are brothers, how we should turn the other cheek, love our enemies, and not throw stones. He will throw rich men out of the church for profaning its holiness. Men of the Penis will nail him up on a cross and go to war.
If a man's Penis is dominate, we'll elect him President. Well, that's a joke in poor taste, perhaps, but I can think of at least two presidents off the top of my head whose penis got the better of them in their sexual activities, and two more in our foreign policies.
In our day to day lives, the Penis people are the dumb jocks, the money grubbers who just go to college to get an MBA so they can make a killing not caring who gets killed (I don't understand how tobacco or SUV manufactures sleep at night), and anyone who cheats to win, or cheats on his wife.
I'm tempted to write a verison of this for what I suspect goes on inside women, but I think there's more than three and English doesn't have very polite words for some of them, so I will refrain and let women do the writing on that.