The biggest mistake men make when dealing with women is this. Men want someone to help them solve their problems, women want someone to listen to their problems. When my psychologist friend told me this, I was perplexed, why would you tell someone your problems if you didn’t want help solving them ? To answer that question, we will have to take a few detours before we can get to the answer. This will then lead us to several conclusions.
Both the progressives, as leftists like to call themselves now days, and the conservatives fail to understand how changing technology and resulting economic pressures change society and culture. The purpose of this post is to show that modern feminists are giving themselves credit for something that was mostly caused by these two forces. For the progressives, the myth that patriarchy kept women out of the workforce needs to be broken. For the conservatives the idea that the past was some golden age also needs to be broken. Both the progressives and the conservatives are giving the feminists too much credit. To break this myth, we need to examine the past.
Both the progressives, as leftists like to call themselves now days, and the conservatives fail to understand how changing technology and resulting economic pressures change society and culture. The purpose of this post is to show that modern feminists are giving themselves credit for something that was mostly caused by these two forces. For the progressives, the myth that patriarchy kept women out of the workforce needs to be broken. For the conservatives the idea that the past was some golden age also needs to be broken. Both the progressives and the conservatives are giving the feminists too much credit. To break this myth, we need to examine the past.
We now live in a digital democracy, thanks to the internet everyone has the possibility to get their message heard by the rest of the world. Paradoxically most messages have become digital noise which we just ignore. To cut through this noise your message has to be short to drive home your point.
Galileo’s crime was publicly stating what most scientists knew at the time, that the planets revolve around the sun. Satoshi Kanazawa’s crime is publicly stating what every scientist knows, that there is a biological difference between male and female brains and it influences how each gender makes decisions. Galileo during his lifetime was forced into obscurity. Right now as we speak, Satoshi Kanazawa has been forced into obscurity, and all of his articles from the popular website Psychology Today and other popular scientific sites. Will future generations view the persecution of Satoshi Kanazawa as we view the persecution of Galileo ? Will they ask what type of closed minded ignorant society did we live in ?
One of my father’s favorite sayings was strong as a rock of Gibraltar. When I was a kid, I did not know that Gibraltar was the famous British fortress which guards the entrance to the Mediterranean sea. The saying has fallen out of vogue, but at the time it reflected the strength of the British Empire which depended on maritime trade. As British Admiral Sir John Fishe stated, Gibraltar was one of the keys that locked up world. A key is something which opens or controls a lock. Who ever has this key control the lock. Rock is considered something to be strong, dependable, never changing. Jesus allegedly stated And on this rock I will build my church.
Machiavelli’s book “The Prince” is about how a leader gains and maintains power, he differed from other analysts in that he talked about the leader’s self interests as opposed to the nation’s best interests. He is under attack constantly because he reveals the unpleasant truth that all leaders, or all governments from democracies to dictatorships are only concerned about one thing which is maintaining power. Unfortunately for Machiavelli, game theory had not been invented, so all he had to rely on was historical examples and his own observations.
Machiavelli’s book “The Prince” is about how a leader gains and maintains power, he differed from other analysts in that he talked about the leader’s self interests as opposed to the nation’s best interests. He is under attack constantly because he reveals the unpleasant truth that all leaders, or all governments from democracies to dictatorships are only concerned about one thing which is maintaining power. Unfortunately for Machiavelli, game theory had not been invented, so all he had to rely on was historical examples and his own observations.
Constantly you are bombarded with graphic images of people getting killed, raped or ethnically cleansed. We are constantly being told about the increasing dangers of terrorism, about some war in some far off land. According to the news media we are in greater danger then ever before and the amount of violence is increasing. We are told that the last century which included WW1 and WW2 was one of the deadliest ever. Is violence in the world actually increasing and is the world actually a more dangerous place ? The reality is violence per a capita of all types from rape, genocide, people killed in wars and homicide has decreased drastically in the last 200 years. And surprisingly enough has decreased even more drastically in the last 50 years. This is in all countries of the world.
Private Dancer is a novel about a westerner who travels to Thailand and then falls in love with a Thai bargirl. What makes the novel unique is that it is a story based upon fact, it is based upon an amalgamation of real life characters. Steven Leather has spent more then half his life in SE Asia and fictionalized account of his experiences in Thailand and SE Asia in general. Despite being a renowned writer, Steven Leather was initially unable to find anyone to publish the book due to its controversial nature and realism.