tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post8944011374386027127..comments2024-03-21T22:36:54.451-04:00Comments on HISTORIES OF THINGS TO COME: Awaken the Amnesiacs 2: The GnosticsLC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-48022246852152080132015-12-21T23:51:59.802-05:002015-12-21T23:51:59.802-05:00I certainly hope not. Not a Crowley fan. I think t...I certainly hope not. Not a Crowley fan. I think the gender neutral fad will go out of fashion, like the Singularity; imagine what we will get instead, though. Thanks re. the ruined chateaux post!LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-36150615541273242852015-12-20T17:15:34.057-05:002015-12-20T17:15:34.057-05:00Intriguing post, TB!
Maybe we are entering the aeo...Intriguing post, TB!<br />Maybe we are entering the aeon of Horus, described by Crowley in The Book of Thoth, as the Age of the Hermaphrodite... being the third phase of the holy triadic cycle represented by Isis (the matriarchy)... which was eventually supplanted by Osiris (the patriarchy) but, completed and brought to fruition by their child Horus.<br /><br />Incidentally, "Ruined Chateaux" post... enchanting! :-)<br />Dia Sobin (Araqinta)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03398194511342193439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-38453927778224818182015-12-18T01:17:02.224-05:002015-12-18T01:17:02.224-05:00Thanks for your comment, Ishmael. I should emphasi...Thanks for your comment, Ishmael. I should emphasize again that the ideas mentioned here are not expressions of my personal aims or opinions. I am summarizing evident trends. As for the advocates of these ideas, some are political, some are commercial, some are youth exploring identities (who in another time or place would follow some other fad), some are occult. Subsequent posts will suggest that these are old spiritual values, reworked to understand our interaction with technology. So contrary to the seeming question of how durable gender identities are, we are actually looking at two things. First, the 'religification' of cyberspace. Second, the Internet affects the most powerful rubrics for inflexible identity; it may start with gender, but moves on to other terms. For people exploring these new spectra, their real attack is on rigid dualism and dualistic mentalities, not gender per se. They want to break down inflexible polarized modes of categorizing the world. This is ironic if you consider that they are gravitating toward another dualism - virtual versus real.LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-47505895647060154322015-12-17T14:54:32.044-05:002015-12-17T14:54:32.044-05:00Gender neutrality’ is an interesting concept but i...Gender neutrality’ is an interesting concept but its effective realization is probably impossible. What people seem to be attempting to blend are cultural norms, i.e. they would have it that nothing is expected of somebody on the basis of their gender, thus enabling them to fluidly shift between traditional masculine and feminine styles and roles. This is fair enough, but it can only be taken so far. The ‘gender fluid,’ even if society embraces them wholesale, will no doubt remain a minority, even a very tiny minority. Some fanatics seem to forget that outright gender dimorphism is a phenomenally rare condition. We are never going to reach a situation wherein nothing can be predicated of an individual on the basis of gender. Aren’t people transitioning from one gender to another precisely aiming to establish such predications? Otherwise, why bother? Anyway it will always be the case that most females have feminine tendencies and males masculine, though a civilized society ought to be capable of including exceptions without hysterics. We can admit the spectrum without abolishing the poles. Regarding social customs generally, we ought to accept the common run of men and women are never going to wholly treat one another on a non-discriminatory level, as we might expect, say, Englishmen and Indians to do so, and thus after the patriarchy has disappeared into the historical dustbin with British imperialism, come to similarly equitable terms. Because of course, for the great majority of human beings, the most vital compulsions of their nature, the most deeply felt emotions, are inextricably connected to extraordinarily powerful feelings toward fair members of the opposite sex. Their most electrifying passions emanate therefrom, even unto lifetime partnerships and smiley babies. No amount of turgid feminist tomes will somehow prevent them from adapting behaviour accordingly. What can you do? It’s no mystery, and no mere construct of culture, that femininity attracts masculinity and vice versa. Fine young idealists doubting this fact somewhat imperil their appeal. It was never as simple a case of injustice where the imbalanced relations of men and women are concerned as that of racial oppression, for example, simply because of this natural breeding dynamic, though none can doubt that women have often been treated unjustly and indeed oppressed. But if, after legal and economic parity, you expect the average young man and woman to behave around the opposite gender no differently than around their own, to think of them no differently and without a measure of prejudicial tension, you are expecting the Sun to shine at midnight and the stars to flicker in the middle of the day. You might as well attempt to put out the daystar by huffing and puffing and blowing at it. It’s just not going to happen, I’m afraid. Thomas James Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02239134727345575735noreply@blogger.com