There can be no question about it:  men have been liberated by the feminist movement.  Liberated from the responsibility of providing care, liberated from social obligation in the treatment of women, liberated from the need to protect, and most of all, liberated from the expectation of maturity that was measured by a man’s ability to meet these ( Read more... )

In the Prince, Machiavelli makes a claim which caught my attention the other day.  I wish I could say that it was because I was reading the Prince, but sadly that book has been packed away, so I am forced to paraphrase.

“Because the two can hardly exist simultaneously, it is better to be feared than loved.”

Or words to that effect.

But what’s this?  ( Read more... )

The essence of the Sexual Revolution revolves around the power of blasphemy.  Profanity in general, and blasphemy in particular, are functions of the Eden-serpent who is, according to Eliphas Levi, a symbolic representation of the power of attraction.  The serpent came forth when the apple of knowledge of good and evil was FORBIDDEN.  If we accept ( Read more... )

Why has violence been suppressed by western civilization?  What is inherently threatening about this natural urge to democratic culture?  The effort to create an acceptable level of non-violence, because it is so basically contrary to human nature, has had a number of interesting repercussions.  Secularism in general uses this as its excuse for the ( Read more... )

When trying to comprehend the psychological difference between men and women, we have some very useful models in our modern culture.  The connection between advertising and the woman’s romantic mindset is instructive, and entirely comprehendible by anyone who lives in our culture, which is at this point a shadow cast by the advertising industry ( Read more... )

Sex and violence have had a role-reversal in the New Aeon.  They are always mentioned in the same breath these days, and they share many intimate links, but it is hard to deny the evidence that violence was previously the exoteric form of this energy, and sex the esoteric.  In a world of authoritarian government that upheld law with force, without ( Read more... )

    Is it not legitimate to point out that a lot of gay people are really fucked up?  It is not legitimate, certainly, to say that because someone is gay they MUST be fucked up, but unless they have been raised in a very homo-tolerant environment, the defence mechanisms which are inevitably produced by interacting with the greater society, which is ( Read more... )