A slightly unusual Cast not about a particular person, place or thing, rather a general theme in modern society which arose from a comment on the Moon of Alabama geopolitical blog about Gramsci, a foundational communist thinker and activist. I found the insight about feminism pretty cool – if I say so myself as the author (Scorpion). Have felt for years that although most of the problems and solutions voiced by hard core feminists are too simplistic, there are valid reasons behind the complaint. Any time a woman complains there is a good underlying reason for it, even if that reason has little or nothing to do with the reasons being given. It is the job of Men, it seems, to figure out what that underlying problem is and fix it so that instead of complaining, our women laugh and sing. Because making women happy is clearly one the greatest duties and pleasures of human existence…..
Posted by: Scorpion | Dec 15 2023 3:32 utc | 111
Posted by: bevin | Dec 15 2023 2:08 utc | 108
I’ll take a quick look at that, though I suspect what I would most benefit from is a good medium-length article which cites him [Gramsci] a lot whilst also unpacking his main thought.
Reading some of the last chapter of the Williams book: part of what I dislike about this style of thinking is that its perspective is apart from rather than a part of its subject matter. Everyone in ‘traditional’ societies felt themselves within the same overall Realm (Reality) inseparable from Heaven or God, thus under the same Authority.
When you step outside something to observe it ‘objectively’ you describe it from without not within, like a scientist studying life by cutting up a corpse. The concepts used in such dissections may engender new insights but they ever remain agents of separation and objectification.
Perhaps the impulse behind feminism is natural female resentment at being objectified, not so much as ‘objects of desire’ as from the way we all objectify each other as parts of a grand machine, each distinct and apart. Such apartness offends the naturally warm and open feminine spirit encouraging union, a dissolving of self and other separation engendering new life, a process transcending the solipsism of individuated identity, ultimately more a mental construct than actual ontological condition.
Oh well….perhaps am just nostalgic for a world that never existed, for an imagined ‘Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant Land‘ never matched by harsh, crude and oh-so-real ‘objective reality’.
The document is longer than usual so I’ll refrain from further commentary on this page.
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