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Life After Patriarchy: Three Reflections on the Coming Revolution
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Life After Patriarchy: Three Reflections on the Coming Revolution

March 6, 2018 Newsletter

Alnoor Ladha, for One Billion Rising and Kosmos Online

One Billion Rising is celebrating its sixth year of risings taking place from February 14 to International Women’s Day on March 8. You can find out more and join the movement here.

The last 18 months have been indelibly defined by the rise of a feminist revival. The #MeToo campaign was a cultural matchstick sitting upon a tinderbox of a patriarchal system built over thousands of years.

But there is more to it than this.  If we look at the broader currents of what is happening, we are seeing a profound shift in values away from what has often been called dominator logic. This is not just a re-balancing of masculine versus feminine values, but a redefining of the central tension of anti-life versus life-centric values that are at the very core of our global operating system.

Of course, there can be no tidy narrative of linear progress. Reality is far more complex, haptic and entangled. We are simultaneously witnessing the dissolution and apotheosis of late-stage capitalism, which in its death throes is producing peak-hierarchy, peak-violence, peak-patriarchy and peak-delusion (along with the strongmen embodiments of these values in world leaders such as Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi).

I do not pretend to have answers for where we are going or even what the shift from the male-dominator logic will mean, but I would like to offer three reflections that might provide a different lens from which to view the coming transition. These ideas were triggered by seeing the powerful My Revolution video by the social movement One Billion Rising.

Capitalism and patriarchy are mutually reinforcing

As we begin to understand the consequences of the 5,000-year spread of patriarchal logic – from species extinction to eco-systems collapse to perpetual war – a more constellational worldview is forming. Climate change, increasing inequality and rampant poverty are not “externalities” of a well-functioning system, as the economists would have us believe, but rather the logical outcome of a set of rules, norms and cultural practices that stretch back to our invention of agriculture and creation of the first city-states.

History builds upon itself in reinforcing feedback loops. We cannot create a society built on masculine values – including rewarding competition, aggression, violence, rationalism and domination – and expect the outcome to be anything else than our current plight as a civilization on the brink of existence.

Although the traditional essentialism of ideas such as “masculinity” versus “femininity” are reductive, they can be useful shorthand when it comes to identifying general tendencies. The upshot being that masculine values are primarily responsible for the historical creation of the violent, patriarchal culture that gave birth to proto-capitalism and then capitalism itself.

The economic operating system has been programmed to extract more, consume more, and control more. The system rewards those who best serve its prime directive: to increase capital. This is the epitome of dominator culture, which rewards men exponentially. As such, we as men must go beyond being ‘allies’ by recognizing and calling out patriarchy; we must become allies in actively dismantling the system and helping to usher in post-capitalist, life-centric values. This is not simply a moral requirement or a form of redemption. It is the necessary pre-condition to ensure that we can maintain Life on this planet.

Patriarchy is a mind-virus

When most people think about memes they think of LOL cats or other viral internet memes. But the technical definition of a meme is a unit of cultural meaning. Richard Dawkins, who coined the term in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene says, “Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain, via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.”

If we understand patriarchy in this broader sense, as a memetic virus that moves from host to host, mutating to suit its various cultural environments, we start to understand what we’re up against. Although patriarchy is institutionalized through systems and structures, it is also latent in the inner structures of the mind. That means patriarchy is not solely gender-determined. One only needs to think of the archetype of the ambitious Western corporate female or NGO bureaucrat to see how patriarchal memes are internalized and re-propagated.

We also see this in progressive circles where people who are versed in power dynamics believe they are immune to the memetic virus of patriarchy. However, the thought-form mimics its own nature – it is extremely cunning, transforming itself into other forms of aggression. Even the desire to castrate men for their crimes is a form of perpetuating the virus of patriarchy (however much they may deserve it). One may argue that this is somehow the shadow of feminism, but if you accept the memetic perspective, even the more extreme feminist reaction is in fact the shadow of patriarchy.

No one is immune to the virus. Everyone who has been affected by globalized capitalist culture has been infected. To varying degrees, we are all carriers of dominator logic.

The revolution is not just political

In order to create the antigen to the patriarchy virus that exists within us, we must address our inner world. This is a frightening proposition to most, and often regarded as irrelevant to the political process. But if disembodied, rationalist men, largely socialized in the dominant culture, are disproportionately powerful agents of creating modern reality, then surely their spiritual and psychological development is a key factor in creating the possibility of what is to come.

This is not to say that we should not focus on the material aspects of creation such as building new forms of political economy, but rather, we must complement building new infrastructure with re-wiring the inner world of the male psyche. This can take many forms including mindfulness practices, psychotherapy, men’s groups, working with psychedelic substances in ceremonial settings, etc. It may also mean rethinking the very fabric of our relationships – whether they be romantic relationships, our relationship to our own body, our community structures and our relationship with the living planet.

Whatever the avenue, the goal is to de-school the mind from the patriarchal dominator logic that is at the heart of capitalism. Patriarchy and capitalism are intertwined and interdependent thought-forms; they co-evolved, after all. We will not transcend capitalism until we dismantle the patriarchy. And we will not transcend patriarchy until we dismantle capitalism. Importantly, we will not have a chance at either if we do not first become aware of how the mind-virus of patriarchy operates within our own psyches. The challenge that lies ahead of us is as much political as it is metaphysical. It’s as much about storming the 21st century Bastilles as it is about dismantling the inner Trump that lies within us all.

About the Author

Alnoor Ladha is a co-founder of The Rules, a global collective of activists, writers, researchers, coders and others focused on addressing the root causes of inequality, poverty and climate change.

 

 

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10 Comments
Gabrielle
March 6, 2018, 5:34 pm

Beautifully stated! I’m excited to be alive still to witness the incredible transformation of our global society into one of love equality and justice for All. When i first began reading this article I thought it was written by a woman. Kudos to you beautiful man for being the change we so desperately need in our futures. Very grateful.

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Upasana
March 6, 2018, 7:11 pm

Beautiful article! This gives such a hope in this bleak world. But how do you think this can become a more widespread idea, rather than one held only by woke men and women?

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Rhonda Fabian
March 6, 2018, 7:56 pm

Light finds its way Upasana! Our role is to deepen our own understanding and be a light for those near us. In peace, R

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Jan Krikke
March 7, 2018, 1:57 am

Thanks for this excellent piece, Alnoor. I will quote from it in my upcoming piece on the need for women in AI.

Have a quick look at a diagram on the Sex Model by futurist Larry Taub:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/?multi_permalinks=1786723021371869&notif_id=1520392569738739&notif_t=like_tagged&ref=notif

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Greta Bro
March 7, 2018, 3:44 pm

I too thought that you were a woman when I first began reading. It is so moving to read these brilliant words written by a man. I agree with everything you have said here! We are graduating from patriarchal chapter, marked by domination subordination and dense pyramids of socail and economic power and birthing a new chapter. This new chapter marries masculine and feminine energies, embraces mutuality, collaboration, inspired co-creation, psycho-spiritual development and reverence for the living earth. It fosters both stillness and activity, emotional intelligence and critical thinking, knowing and reasoning, higher consciousness and science, receptivity and expressiveness, compassion for self and other. Thank you!!!

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John Taylor
March 7, 2018, 5:56 pm

Thanks Alnoor for your Reflections. I agree with all 3, which I paraphrase somewhat as: Capitalism and Patriarchy are mutually reinforcing; Patriarchy are mind-viruses (Memes); and ‘The Revolution’ requires individual inner work (more than political efforts).
I disagree with the ‘male dominator logic’ and ‘male psyche’ paradigms. Indeed I think to assert, as your words appear to do, that they are somehow inherent to being male is wrong. They are, in my thinking, fully captured by the 3 reflections: they are learned, reinforced and part of who each of us (Male or Female) have become.
As a strong proponent of groups like the Mankind Project, wherein Archetypes are the focus, males are part of the human family and of life on this planet.
I encourage you to look at works like David Korten’s ‘Change the Story…’ and Charles Eisenberg’s ‘Sacred Economics’ for practical alternatives and ways to move forward, one person at a time.

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Bob Hiller
March 8, 2018, 5:54 pm

In the third paragraph, I think the word “haptic” should be “hectic”

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Eva Willmann de Donlea
March 10, 2018, 4:06 am

Bravo, Alnoor, finally the thought path are opening up to the roots and ‘externalities’. Bravo!

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Valarie Lee James
March 12, 2018, 6:12 pm

Best current article I have read on the subject. Your thesis gives me serious hope. Times they truly are a-changing. And I Love the “mind-virus” reference to Patriarchy, Bravo! I look forward to reading more of your work.

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Glyn Evans
March 13, 2018, 4:20 pm

I personally would welcome a world of equality where we divided wealth between all and left the next generation with a better planet than we inherited.
Sadly I see no changes in world order as it currently exists. Perhaps when we face extinction there’ll be time to reverse some of the consequences. Patriarchy is not the problem it’s greed and fear of death that create the political industrial system.

There is no evidence to indicate that a world run by matriarchy would change anything.

Stupidity is pretty equal between the sexes, look at the women who have been in power.

We need to be united as one species, promote individuals that are not motivated by wealth but love.
Take the average human being and tell me what is the critical difference between matriarchy and patriarchy.

If you look at tribal societies perhaps it was to the advantage of women to create more aggressive behaviour in the male children to be the protective shield.

Behind every man is a woman.

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MMM
March 28, 2018, 10:19 pm

This is shiny marketing drip gold fake paint hiding what the real dialogues could be. I am very disappointed in the masculine overlays of marketed branding pushy animus instead of the real opening in dialogues possible. Here again we have the new aggression of missing the point completely but I paid for these designer clothes America woman-ish sort of empowering overly sexualized video yelling and screaming for recognition in what is a mishmash facade of not seeing the deeper problem. One cannot throw marketing and words at a patriarchy and conjure it into vanishing. I call on everyone to do better work.
If my honesty is my sword, then so be it.

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