THE NATURAL SOVEREIGNTY
OF WOMANKIND
A Love Feminista
by
Doctress Neutopia
Fall 1992
ONE BLOOD
The most stressed phrase
at the Republican convention
'92 was "family values."
By this Republicans seem
to mean the traditional
home environment of the
nuclear family: people
related by marriage, legal
custody, and blood, who
represent to them the
basic unit of a strong
capitalist and militaristic
foundation. They believe
all members of the family
should be provided economic
and emotional security
from the family wealth:
health care, education,
food, housing, and all
the other necessities
of life. Since the basic
cell of capitalism is
"family" property,
they are attempting to
keep the wealth controlled
by the patriarchy because
God the Father knows best
as he pledges allegiance
to the American flag and goes off to war
to defend the national
interests of the Motherland.
Republicans,
according to the 1992
platform, are no longer
aspiring to "promote
the general welfare"
if it means raising taxes.
To them anyone who falls
outside the traditional
family structure and has
no economic base should
not receive welfare from the taxpayers. The taxpayers
are in part recognized
for their loyalty as hard
workers who do their duty
to America by providing
a good family life for
their children, no matter
how destructive their
job may be to their progeny
and the long-term health
of the ecology or how
many people their job
exploits. Republicans
believe there will always
be a class of poor, homeless,
and unemployed people
of inferior genes, for
all purposes a criminal
class in that they can
not make the American
Dream come true in their
lifetime.
These are the people Republicans
feel should be cleared
from the streets since
in the Republican view
these people are the ones
who are breaking up "domestic
tranquility." A Republican
slogan could appropriately
be: "Care not for
those who are not your
kin." The
Republican platform is
not about universal love,
but about the narrow-mindedness
of self-interest.
For the
patriarchs, the role of
the mother is the most
important function of
the woman. She is not
only the child bearer,
but she is responsible
for raising the children
to promote good- old-boy
mentality which is why
the Republicans want to
give greater power to
parents and the Church
in controlling the education
of our youth. As we have
seen by the patriarchy
allowing Barbara Bush
and Marilyn Quayle to
speak at the convention
podium, it is alright
for women to be heard
as long as they promote
the male ego and the materialistic world-view,
as long as they obey the
word of the male God.
To the Republicans, women
are to be treated as castrated
males, eternally frustrated
by Freudian "penis
envy."
Since home
ownership is the central
point which passes on
the wealth and power to
the next generation, it
has been the traditional
domain of women. The mother's
duty in the Republican
view is to raise the children
to accept the conditions
of inheritance and to
become informed consumers.
In order for the sons
and occasionally the daughters
to receive the family
wealth, they must conform
to the rules of the game.
Those in the running for
the family wealth can
do nothing to offend the
masters of the money,
and so the family system
reproduces itself. Children
who have been conditioned
their entire life to play
the money game have to suppress their natural
talents and creative gifts
which are given to them freely by
Nature. Since our technology
has linked the world into a global
lineage more than likely
their dreams and visions will not fit into
this tribalistic life-style
of the Republican family.
Those who speak against
the system of wealth risk
disinheritance and homelessness.
For the
Republicans, blood relations
are the most important and bring one immediate
status, if one is born
into or marries into the blue-bloods of America.
These people are who Thomas
Jefferson called the artificial
aristocrats. Originally,
the word aristocracy meant rule by the best
citizens, the elite few
who constituted the most noble, virtuous,
and gifted individuals.
The creative minority's title to power
was instituted for the
interest of the many. Unfortunately, this
definition of aristocracy
was corrupted over time by those whose
title to power was determined
by who came into the possession
of the land, and consequently,
the means of production.
The American constitution
was written by rich men
to keep the property owners
in a position of power
while their black slaves were forced to
labor on their estates.
These "artificial
aristocrats" and
"conservative pro-family feminists" have been
in control of the wealth
for generations, which means America is
not a democracy established
on the basis of
justice. American is an
oligarchy, ruled by the
elite few determined by
hereditary privilege who
control the mass media.
It has been said that
the power of the British
Empire diminished precisely
because civil and military
appointments and advancements
were determined mainly
by one's family background
and social class, not
by one's abilities and
effectiveness to serve
in governmental careers.
A social system which
does not allow the most
capable individuals to
carry out their ideas
is bound to collapse.
The greatest
idea which challenges
the oligarchical tyranny has been the idea of public
education, that all people
have the right to advance their
gifts and talents for
the betterment of
humanity. In theory, this
would allow the natural
aristocracy, those people of virtue
and talent, to rise into
positions of authority within the meritocracy
(i.e., the rule of the
meritorious) to establish
a social status greater
than that of the "well-born."
However, the oligarchy
has been in control of
the philosophy of education
since its members are
the ones who finance the system. Their administrators
choose whom to offer an
education and whom to
employ as teachers and
administrators. Token
radicals are permitted
as long as they follow
the structure of the university
hierarchy. Consequently,
the capitalist myth controls education as professors
buy into the home-owning
middle-class.
Republicans
have not understood the
importance of encouraging everyone to serve their
innate gifts which have
come to them in a unique way to play a critical
role in the survival of
the species.
These individualistic
qualities are what the
society needs to nurture
and defend. But the Republican
rhetoric hates individual
differences. Republicans
blame women, homosexuals,
and minority groups for
global problems. They
have devised rigid IQ
tests and exams to discriminate
against people who have
an alternative way of
thinking about the world.
This makes it extremely
difficult for free thinkers
to make it through the
present system of education
to eventually find a distinguished
place in society.
Another
idea that threatens this
established regime is
the belief that everyone is
your family member and
all the world is One. Defining family as
those people who share
resources and
decision-making based
on common goals and values
and are committed to the
well-being of each other
regardless of blood or
legal ties--to paraphrase
the White House Conference
of Families in 1980--destroys
the image of the American
dream house and the stereotype
of gender roles which
maintain the status quo.
The biosphere is simply
too fragile for the American
standard of living to
be the model of development.
Cars and single-family
houses do not create the
sustainable, energy-efficient
world we must build in
order to endure over time.
Republicans fear that
if the government dares
to tax the rich, the wealth
will be taken away from
the controlling
families and redistributed
to the poor. But most
of all they fear feminism to the point
that one Republican called
Hillary Clinton, who is a successful lawyer
and the top adviser to
her spouse, a
"feminazi" and
a "witch."
The new image of the independent
woman is the supreme menace
to the patriarchy, the
woman who makes her own
judgments on social issues
and builds her own Neutopia...the
woman who needs to have
the best child-care teachers
to provide the best education
for her children so that
she can spend her time
changing the oppressive
system in order to establish
justice and to "secure
the blessing of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity."
Yes, it is the idea that
children are not the property
of the parents, but are
the responsibility of
the community--humanity's
greatest resource--which is the revolutionary
idea that will inevitably
destroy capitalism.
The reality
of One Blood is so threatening
to the Greco-Hebrew-Christian-Islamic
religious and political
dogmas because they believe that woman
and children were made
to be servants and
property of the patriarchal
family. For thousands
of years, a female accused
of adultery was punished
much more severely than
her male partner because
the fetus is carried by
her. If it is she who
breaks the sexual contract,
then it is difficult for
the patriarch to determine
who his biological offspring
are and, therefore, impossible
to determine which children
should inherit his wealth.
Some women are still so
brainwashed by the patriarchal religious values intentionally
designed to stifle female
intelligence that they
actually believe they
are happy being trapped
in the inferior positions
as the housewifes whose
main purpose in life and
greatest achievement is
to do housework and chauffeur
their children around
to after school activities.
The dangerous motherhood-myth
is that all women want
to be mothers and that children need their
biological mothers in
order to grow up into loving adults. This
is not true. There are
numbers of
anthropological examples
to prove that children
are better off when they are not living under
mother-dominated parenting.
Clutching onto this motherhood-myth--that
the woman's place is the home--the Republican
policy has even refused
to give housewives pay
for their housewifery
since men in the motherhood-myth
are expected to be the
breadwinners. Nor have
Republicans provided childcare
services to working mothers
since the motherhood-myth
depends on women being
economically dependent
on the male. Poor women
have always lived with
the pressure of finding
work or starving to death,
while upper-class mothers
has always hired nurses
and nannies to take care
of their children. Even
though the traditional
role of the stay-home
mom may be the ideal for
the middle-class, the
reality is that rent and
mortgages are so expensive that mothers
are forced to enter the
work-force with their husbands in order
to provide the family
with food and shelter. The majority
of these jobs do not foster
self-actualization and
creativity, but chain
the female workers' consciousness
to the profit motive dominated
by mediocrity and the
lust to control.
Other well-trained professional
women believe they are
going to beat the system by
competing with men for
the high-paying corporate jobs. For them
equal pay means the liberty
to become
equally greedy and powerful.
Nevertheless, woman's
entry into the work-force has caused
the final stages of the
breakdown of the patriarchal family, as
the need for childcare
has grows and the woman is no longer economically
dependent on the man.
She now no longer needs
him to be the breadwinner
as she becomes the head
of the family. Sperm banks
and artificial insemination
have now made it possible
for her to reproduce without
his direct participation.
But, as the wealthy class
well knows, money cannot
buy love and happiness,
and the traditional paradigm
of power has not created
a just world.
THE NEED
FOR A CO-PRESIDENCY
Since the presidency is
an office of emotional
leadership and a symbol of "the
more perfect Union,"
the heterosexual bond
could offer us the symbol of
both sexual and cultural
reproduction. It is here where we find
the liberation to break
through this circle of emotional incest of "family values."
Without including cultural reproduction as part of
the symbol of governance,
that only women of public creativity and
responsibility can bear,
the symbol of the biological mother will
continue to dominate over
the image of the social mother--the Crone--the
wisewoman-ruler. Hence,
the "religious war"
we are living through
is about the different
stages of the Triple Deity of
the Goddess: the Virgin,
the Mother, and the Crone whom the patriarchy
divided in order to conquer.
The Crone
is the one who the patriarchy
has suppressed and it is she who must be emancipated
in order to set our civilization free to rebuild a truly
humane global culture.
Women have been the
ones responsible for the
founding morality of the
civilization, from engineering the mysterious
megaliths and the use
of the wall, to constructing the first
agricultural gardens.
She and her
partner transformed nature
into culture, inspiring
and inventing music, poetry, ceramics,
land and water transportation,
commerce, industry, etc. It is she
who is the body politic
who rules with
"milk and honey."
Without the knowledge
of the Crone, there cannot
be a universal hero. His existence
depends on Her. It is
the soul of the liberated woman who
creates the liberated
man. The concept of the hero can no longer
be seen as a war-maker,
but as a love-maker, collaborating with his
female counterpart in
intellectual and spiritual ways. Competition
and war must be understood
as
evolutionary weaknesses
whereas cooperation and
peace are evolutionary necessities.
The hera's
soul does not rest in
the single-family detached house nor in cheap modern
apartment buildings but
in a new communal high-tech
arcology exemplified by
the Biosphere-2 and Paolo
Soleri's Arcosanti: cities
designed with the principles
of ecology to recycle
all human waste by using
alternative energies from
the sun. Within these
interdependent, megastructural
ecocities, parents would
have the luxury and time
to fully appreciate their
children and respect them
as independent human beings,
no longer subjected to
the demands of the traditional
family environment and
the nationalistic indoctrination
of the American school
system. It is time to
build a new social and
physical architecture
to eliminate sexism, racism,
classism, and war forever
on this precious home
planet!
For the new women to be
fully the revolutionary
force that she can be, the Democrats
need to envision a new
way of leadership. Women should have equal
power to reign with their
spouses because it is their knowledge
of love which provides
the wisdom of rulership
and guides the world to
peace. Without the female
in the marriage agreement
having an equal public
role, the traditional
view of the father-ruler
will continue to command
the political arena. She
will remain in the VIP
box cheering him on as
he receives a salary for
his public service while
she is expected to volunteer
her work for free. Since
the most noble and creative
work is not motivated
by the hopes of receiving
monetary rewards, but
by the inspiration of
love, volunteerism should
be the spirit which receives
the most prestige and
community support. Freedom
must become the basis
of human engagement and
enterprise.
Therefore,
we should not be electing
only one part of the marriage partnership to
the presidency, but we
should be voting into office a sacred marriage,
which in alchemy is called
a Hieros Gamos. The way it is now
with the male usually
running for office while the female supports
his election campaign
does not give the female equal status in
the partnership. She appears
in a secondary and private role to her
spouse. It is his direction
which has the influential power, not
hers. Her only influence
is seen in the bedroom which means she
is caught in the mind-body
split: the private is not the political,
her voice does not make
policy. In Hillary Clinton's case
it was Bill Clinton who
was elected governor,
not her. If he is elected
to the Presidency, he
will be the Commander-in-Chief.
Her position is due to
her marriage, not to
her character and innate
gifts of leadership even
though without her he would not be in
the position he is in!
In this
unfair situation her duty
is to create the secure
and nurturing home life to
shelter him from the cruel
world of business. Her
world becomes the escape
and fantasy land where
hegoes at night to get
away from the nightmare
he created in the daytime
world of the skyscraper
and the slum. But even
in the bedroom she is
forced to submit to his
sexual desires and appeals
to the standards of beauty
which he feels are sexually
attractive even should
they seem to her to be
pornographic and artificial.
She must use her sexuality
in covert ways in order
to achieve her
desires and so must submit
to his fantasies. In this
fantasy, the male believes a woman
is only made to please
his sexuality since his erect penis is required
for intercourse.
The way the Democratic
ticket stands now reflects
the homoerotic system of the
patriarchy. Al Gore is
considered to be Bill Clinton's running
mate. Hillary Clinton
is her husband's
helpmate even though it
has been said that she
is the force behind his campaign. She is a
second-rate political
power to the point where she had to take
on his last name so that
he would be elected governor of Arkansas.
She must follow him and
fit into the male definition of reality
when it is he who should
be following her to Neutopia where all children
are deeply honored and
no child is illegitimate. In Neutopia,
there are no laws which
administer a certain sexual code of
conduct since one's sexual
preference is a matter of personal choice.
Nevertheless, sexually-transmitted diseases are causing our
species to return to monogamy.
In the case of Geraldine
Ferraro and Walter Mondale's
1984 bid for the Presidency, American
politics finally had a
female democratic Vice-Presidential
nominee. Nevertheless,
the Mondale-
Ferraro team did not exemplify
this much needed symbol
of cultural reproduction because they
were not in an equal position,
and both their spouses played invisible
parts in the campaign.
Even though
Jerry Brown ran for president
as a bachelor and was brave enough to expose
the problem of the financing
of government elections by
private wealth, he also
did not include the
reproductive metaphor.
So his symbolic power
was limited.
Shirley
Chisholm who was the first
African-American woman
to run for the office of
President also did not
have the male energy necessary to fulfil the
love myth which unites
"the more perfect
Union" to direct
the people towards maturation.
To summarize,
the office of the Presidency
should embody the moral philosophy of love
and justice between the
sexes. They are the guides to the happy
world. Because they merited
each other's love and companionship
through their good works
and deeds, it is they who should hold the
supreme office in the
democracy. The female\male relationship
provides the people with
a natural check and balance system, checked
and balanced by the human
love relationship.
THE END
OF PLATO'S SPELL
The major flaw with Plato's
Republic is that he failed
to understand the mystical
and necessary role love
plays in human affairs. In his ideal
state, the guardian-rulers,
both women and
men, are not allowed to
create passionate and
permanent attachments
with each other. Guardian
mothers do not know who
their own offspring are
so that they will not
create emotional attachments.
His reason for this is
that he did not want to
create an artificial aristocracy
which becomes solely interested
in the wealth of the biological
family members instead
of the welfare of the
state. Even though he wants the
best and brightest guardians
to mate with each other so that the
best genetic combinations
will create the brightest children, their
liaisons are not of their
own choosing.
In Plato's utopia, love
is not a factor which
determines who is going to mate with whom.
The private element of
intimate relationships
is eliminated from the
guardians of the Republic
which is why many believe
Plato's Republic represents
a totalitarian state, and
furthermore, is not a
utopian society, but dystopian. In his vision,
philosophical Aphrodite
and Eros were
suppressed as were poetesses
and poets. The channellers
of Love's divine story were exiled
from Plato's Kingdom.
Love is
found through the self-knowledge
of the inner search process which should be
helped along by the aid
of a liberated educational system which
means education will play
the essential
role in a democracy. It
is through self-education
where we discover and develop our
innate gifts, where we
learn to love and rely on our own intuitions
and those of others. Not
being able to
develop these gifts puts
each of us and the society
as a whole into a state of slavery. How
many people in modern
America have time to truly
pursue their dreams?
Without self-knowledge
one cannot find one's
soulmate. The patriarchal marriage simply
becomes a biological arrangement, designed to set up a house,
to legitimize sex, and
to raise
children. In cosmic reality,
it becomes the opposite
of the love relationship, a life-long
quest of mutual self-actualization.
In marriages of convenience,
the soul remains empty
and lonely, unable to
experience sexual intimacy,
and, most importantly,
the self-expression and
the exchanging of ideas
even during the most holy
act of all, the sex act.
In many cases, patriarchal
married couples remain
married after acknowledging
that their affection for
each other has passed
away for the sake of the
children. However, this
only reinforces to their
children that life is
not about love, but
about material possessions
which includes them.
Now, at least in theory,
that women have equal
access to education, they are able
to find the soulmates
needed to create these vital relationships
of the meeting of the
minds, leading to
the renewal of the culture.
Therefore, love is a self-selecting phenomenon, a personal
experience. This inner
wisdom provides the charisma
which the people in a
democracy can easily recognize
from its internal power,
whereas, the words and
deeds of the self-interest fails to persuade
one of the love one has
for the other.
In the good society, the
lovers become the self-elected
co-presidents of human
happiness. They become
leaders of the meritocracy\democracy
form of education\governance.
The co-
presidents are selected
to teach us about the
mysterious ways of
love.
Tragically
enough in our patriarchal
dominated world-view,
the people have been corrupted
and are cynical about
the love vision. This cosmic vision must
be restored and a new
constitution written which acknowledges the
woman to whom the president
is married as a co-worker
on equal ground. Women
become their spouses'
running mates! Work and love are
one and demand equal status.
If one does not love and respect one's
own work then it is a
form of slavery.
When work and love between
the sexes are joined together
we arrive at a common mission. To
divide work and love into
different spheres makes work a repetitive
chore, and love a powerless
and empty action. By electing a
partnership to office
will eliminate this duality and put Love,
the meaning of life, into
the position as the manager of human affairs.The revitalization of
the Women's Movement of
the 1960's has given women a new faith
in themselves, to recall
the privileged position they hold as
women. Woman now has the
self-confidence and education
needed to manage the other
half of the world and
become the Queen of Air.
Love, the guide of human
relations can then determine
the economic arrangements
needed to manifest Love's
mission.
This evolutionary
model requires that men
learn to work with the female Vision of Love
and see her as the beacon
of Wisdom. The only way the male ego
will find happiness is
through cooperating with her and to work with
all his heart to make
the lovolution a reality for everyone.
The combined knowledge
of the wo\man wisdom gives
us a holistic vision.
THE WISDOM
OF WOMAN
Woman is
the most important players
in the art of life. It
is the woman who is responsible
for the ultimate sovereignty
of the life-force. In the matter
of creating sexual relationships,
it is
she who has the final
word in allowing the male
to penetrate her. Without her honest consent,
the male dominates her
by using the traditional patriarchal
tools: reason and rationality.
He tries
to manipulate the female
to his sexual fantasy
in the forms of prostitution, seduction,
rape, and the patriarchal
marriage. She must sellout and compromise
her values in order to
please the penis
for his superficial pleasure.
The entire history of
patriarchy has been plagued with men
trying to takeover her
discussion-making power about the life-creating
acts.
The human
race has progressed somewhat
from the days when parents controlled the
decision of who their
children should marry.
Gradually, the child received
the veto power if she
didn't like the parent's choice. Now,
we have advanced to the
point where it is up to the children to decide
who their mates will be.
Now, all marriages, either heterosexual
or same-sex, should be
built from
love.
However, caught in the
patriarchal economic system
and the nuclear family house,
other rational and materialistic
factors heavily influence the
child's decision--questions
of family
background, what kind
of car she or he drives,
the age of the couple, or external beauty
of the body are insidiously
manipulated by commercial advertising.
This means love has not
become the
foundation of marriage
in the capitalist world.
When intellectual qualities such as the
virtues of moral courage
and strength of character are not found
attractive to the opposite
sex, then the
natural selection process
fails to produce the needed
genetic makeup for future problem-solving.
Gifted and talented women
and men find it difficult
to make money and gain
respect in a
capitalist economy which
does not support creative
ideas. In a world established on inequality
between the sexes, creative
spirits find it hard, if not impossible,
to locate their soulmates
and
spiritual equals. This
brings us into a cultural
stalemate. Models of sexual equality are
rare. Living in the age
of AIDS and other incurable sexually transmitted
diseases makes it imperative
that we
begin to live by the Law
of Love.
If the female makes an
unwise decision and engages
in sex for the wrong reasons, it
may result in unwanted
pregnancy, bad marriages, over-population,
etc. Hence, she is responsible
for the
wisdom: she is the interpreter
of love and the protector
of the future. The male's role
is to be the midwife and
nourish the new ideas as well as the offspring.
This is the reason why
the
Republicans have fought
so hard to reverse the
Supreme Court's ruling that women have
a right to choose to bear
life. They want to dominate the natural sovereignty
of womankind, taking away
her discussion-making power.
It is only a matter of
time before the plutocrats will have the
technology of an artificial
placenta to completely control the
reproductive process outside
of the woman's womb. In so far that women
are the ones who are accountable
for creating life, it follows
that they are those who
must become the guardians of the use of
the new reproductive technologies.
Our species must turn to the
wisewoman for leadership
in this crucial moment of herstory. Without
women resisting the material
trappings of the patriarchy,
the human species is doomed.
THE MODELS OF LOVE
At the
Republican convention
if Barbara Bush represented
the intellectual and emotional
equal of George Bush,
then one would have to feel that George
is not smart enough to
be the President of the United States since
Barbara's prime time speech
was one of no philosophic substance.
She was simply the symbol
of the self-sacrificing smiling mother
who willingly relinquishes
her sons and daughters to war. If his
intellect is indeed superior
to her, then he is unfit to be president
because he is a sexist
and does not practice equality in his
daily affairs. In this
case, his wife is
not his intellectual partner,
but his sexual object
who bore his children.
As a symbol
of woman's liberation,
the Bill and Hillary Clinton team seem to fulfill
the position far better
than their predecessors. Hillary
is, after all, a lawyer
who has used the law
to help create rights
for children. Secondly,
she had the good sense to have only one
child which certainly
helps correct the environmental problems
chiefly caused by over-
population which
George and Barbara seemed
oblivious to since they
brought five children into this endangered
human species. The Bushs
even had the bad taste
to take pride in their
contribution to the population-explosion by showing off
their twenty-one family
members for the Lady's Night at the Republican
convention. Now, we can
only hope that Hillary will find
the wisdom to further
revolutionize the patriarchy by reversing
Zeus's decision that Orestes
was not guilty
of murdering his mother
because he declared that
it was the father who was the parent responsible
for the birth of the child.
So the
dilemma of the Democratic
Party is that in order
to provide human services
and a good life for all
citizens they must redistribute the wealth
and create a socialized
economic system.
However, that will lead
to greater bureaucracy
and inflation as during the Carter Presidency.
Unless the institution
of marriage and family life is radically
transformed to reflect
the love
between the sexes, and
a new long-term architectural
plan developed which assembles
a civilization for the
newly liberated wo\men,
the Democrats are as damned
as the Republicans for
the same reason: the protection
of "family values,"
the single-family private
house, and the tyranny
of money.
Surely, it is time for
the American people to
stop praying to God for the answers which
he does not have. Our
species must summons the wisdom of
the Great Goddess for
guidance in governance
and education. In her
Crone form, she holds
the key to our planetary
salvation. This is a sex-role
revolution, one in which the female is re-enthroned
for the good of all people.
From her scepter flows mother's
milk as the world community
feasts on the royal honey produced from
the human hives of love.