Acknowledging that everything from here on out that can be said about the past and how we got here is irrelevant, as we are faced with a “lawfull” self coup and that Democracy died on Nov 5th and autocracy rose like a vampire,out of the coffin.
I hereby add the Powell memo, which laid the blame for equality and student rebellion against t…
Acknowledging that everything from here on out that can be said about the past and how we got here is irrelevant, as we are faced with a “lawfull” self coup and that Democracy died on Nov 5th and autocracy rose like a vampire,out of the coffin.
I hereby add the Powell memo, which laid the blame for equality and student rebellion against the status quo on a healthy and wealthy middle class, that was so well off and “indolent” as to having “spoiled childen” disrupting the “natural” order of things.. the patriarchy.
While at it, the root of patriarchy and patriotismis patria, Latin for father, and one of the acts of Octavian, Augustus Caesar, was to promulgate the law of Pater Familia, in which the father had absolute power of life and death over wife and children.
Class did not replace race, Race is a subset of class, as is all of the other isms, but what Class really is, is a stand in for Patriarchy.
Here is a clue. Within a patriarchal society, There is no opprobrium . disapproval, with a man marrying down, Trump married a nude "model" and look at him and her, but a woman marrying down, below her social status, well that is a horror and shunning follows.
If anyone watched Downton Abbey, and recalls the chauffer that the daughter of the Lord of the Manor married, they know what I mean, even the series the Gilded Age.
Makes total sense. Trump is the ultimate Big Daddy for America's authoritarian followers, just like Putin is for Russia, Xi Jinping for China, Kim Jong Un for North Korea, Viktor Orbán for Hungary, Nicolás Maduro for Venezuela, Bashar al-Assad for Syria, Netanyahu for Israel, etc., etc. Authoritarianism also seems to be patriarchal.
Deepspace, there are examples which do not fit: Catherine the Great, Elizabeth 1, Imelda Marcos, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the authoritarian Indira Gandhi. These are only a partial list off the top of my head, as I have recently read their biographies. With a little digging I suspect there are more to be found.
Haha, right you are, Gerald; I missed those examples. Maybe the exceptions prove the rule, since most strongmen rulers throughout history were men, ergo "strongmen." Again, thanks for your clarification and insights. Always valuable.
You can do that if you wish. That is not a cross I will die on.
I just reduce every thing to human nature, our basic drives, hormones, one thing drives another, every child has a father, but not every father has a child.
Acknowledging that everything from here on out that can be said about the past and how we got here is irrelevant, as we are faced with a “lawfull” self coup and that Democracy died on Nov 5th and autocracy rose like a vampire,out of the coffin.
I hereby add the Powell memo, which laid the blame for equality and student rebellion against the status quo on a healthy and wealthy middle class, that was so well off and “indolent” as to having “spoiled childen” disrupting the “natural” order of things.. the patriarchy.
While at it, the root of patriarchy and patriotismis patria, Latin for father, and one of the acts of Octavian, Augustus Caesar, was to promulgate the law of Pater Familia, in which the father had absolute power of life and death over wife and children.
Class did not replace race, Race is a subset of class, as is all of the other isms, but what Class really is, is a stand in for Patriarchy.
Here is a clue. Within a patriarchal society, There is no opprobrium . disapproval, with a man marrying down, Trump married a nude "model" and look at him and her, but a woman marrying down, below her social status, well that is a horror and shunning follows.
If anyone watched Downton Abbey, and recalls the chauffer that the daughter of the Lord of the Manor married, they know what I mean, even the series the Gilded Age.
Class heirarchy is patriarchal
Makes total sense. Trump is the ultimate Big Daddy for America's authoritarian followers, just like Putin is for Russia, Xi Jinping for China, Kim Jong Un for North Korea, Viktor Orbán for Hungary, Nicolás Maduro for Venezuela, Bashar al-Assad for Syria, Netanyahu for Israel, etc., etc. Authoritarianism also seems to be patriarchal.
No seems about it, authoritarianism is patriarchal, cooperativism is matriarchal.
The female PhaRAoh Hatsheput, had to disguise herself as a man, Her statues show her with a fake beard.
Right — "seems" is too soft of a word. I think Lawrence O'Donnell also pointed that out about Pharaoh Hatsheput on his blog the other day.
Deepspace, there are examples which do not fit: Catherine the Great, Elizabeth 1, Imelda Marcos, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the authoritarian Indira Gandhi. These are only a partial list off the top of my head, as I have recently read their biographies. With a little digging I suspect there are more to be found.
AS Deepspace has said, Exceptions prove the rule.
Haha, right you are, Gerald; I missed those examples. Maybe the exceptions prove the rule, since most strongmen rulers throughout history were men, ergo "strongmen." Again, thanks for your clarification and insights. Always valuable.
I agree with everything here except the class-race-patriarchy statement. I would put class, race and patriarchy into a Venn diagram.
You can do that if you wish. That is not a cross I will die on.
I just reduce every thing to human nature, our basic drives, hormones, one thing drives another, every child has a father, but not every father has a child.