It is as if today, for example, the electronic production of the virtual world were considered to be the only real world, and the real world were considered to have already been replaced by the cyber world, continuing its existence as the former real world only in imagination-so to say as a new metaphysical world beyond the virtual world. But this time metaphysics are no longer welcome. On the contrary, they appear outmoded and old-fashioned, if not reactionary, because they remember the natural world. This would be the real patriarchal perversion! And it has entered the thinking of women as well, even if they did not care much for the invention of machine-technology (Genth 2002). But this form of so called post-materialism can be found in many gender-studies that criticize, for example, the discourse on nature as being essentialist which means being metaphysical, because nature is supposed not to exist in reality - any more! (Werlhof 2003; Bell and Klein 1996). In short, the Gnostic view, which is so typical of all the other patriarchal ideologies until today, did not WORK against patriarchy, though it correctly recognized many of the evils that it brought to the world. For the conclusions drawn from of this recognition were no longer oriented toward a matriarchal world. The evils recognized by the Gnosis were not considered to be those of a patriarchal society. They were considered, instead, to be of society in general, of the world, of people, and even nature everywhere. The difference between a matriarchal society and a patriarchal one, or between society and nature, or between the ruling and the ruled, was no longer thought of. At that time, patriarchy was already taken for granted. The Gnostic view had accepted THE State. It did not question it any more, and those who could afford it tried to flee its consequences and its ugliness. In this way, the two main tendencies in thinking about patriarchal society came about: idealism and materialism. The two should not therefore be regarded, as usual, as pure contradictions, but as two sides of one coin, the Siamese twins of patriarchy: the materialistic side fighting actively against the lasting importance of matter, the mater-mother, nature, the goddess, and life, in order to get them under control, and the idealistic side propagating the ideal of a motherless world, a purely patriarchal utopian paradise that seems peaceful because it appears to have finally resolved the contradictions with the material, matriarchal world or what remains of it. Idealism thus proves to be no less violent than materialism, because it is formulating the idea that became the project of a material realization, which cannot be other than radically violent. From then on nature and women were no longer respected in their own subjectivity, beauty, truth, goodness, and strength, their inventions, abilities, products and culture, their gifts to the world since time immemorial. They were seen, instead, as representing the chaos, the sin, and the evil that had to necessarily be subjugated under and transformed by the socio-economic-political-ideological-religious-technological project of patriarchy. From this point of view, women and nature had to be oppressed, exploited, expropriated, transformed, and destroyed in a way that could be used as proof of male superiority, strength, and creativity. * The invention of profit that could be drawn from this adventure of the whole worlds transformation convinced always more people, mostly men. But many people, especially women, had to be violently forced to participate in the new game. THE POLITICAL MEANS CONSISTED IN processes of original accumulation WHICH DEPRIVED THE PEASANTS OF THEIR MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND THE WOMEN EVEN OF THE DISPOSAL OVER THEIR BODIES - THROUGH THE SO CALLED WITCH - HUNT - by leaving nearly no way to survive beyond capitalism (FEDERICI 2004). Through all this progress mother earth will be more and more destroyed. Some of these fast growing destructions are already irreversible, especially those DUE TO nuclear and genetic MODIFICATIONS (Anders 1995; Chargaff 1988). Artificial death and artificial wealth-the violent nothing- a lot of money, is all that is left. The earth is on the way to being transformed into dead capital, full of empty holes on the one side, and trash-hills for the next billion years on the other. That all this is possible shows that most people believe in the violent nihilism of patriarchy and its dangerous delusion THAT has become real. This astonishing fact can only be understood when one considers that the alchemical wonders patriarchy is promising, do not stem just from modern times, but are prophecies already 5,000 years old. Therefore, the destruction and desertification of the global ecology, including the human one, has not led to a general panic. On the contrary, it seems that, at least in the West, it is believed that only when the natural world has gone, can the patriarchal one finally be constructed, in all its glory, INSTEAD. Capitalism-as well as socialism- with its activism, optimism, positivism, rationality, and its irrational belief in patriarchy, world domination, money, science, technology, and violence, is not just capitalism, but has to be defined as capitalist patriarchy (and, by the way, not as patriarchal capitalism because there is no non-patriarchal capitalism). This epoch is still on the march because it has not yet reached its destination. Therefore, there is no post-capitalist, post-industrial, post-modern or post-materialist epoch in sight-unless capitalist patriarchy is stopped by a breakdown of its resources, technologies, markets, and money systems, by huge natural and or social catastrophes, or by an upheaval of the people who do not want to lose their lives, their planet, and the future of their children. If the matter of capitalism, its mater, its mothers, its women, and its matriarchal remains do not obey any more, and if nature fails to as well, only then will capitalist patriarchy disappear. And as capitalist patriarchy is obviously not a society for eternity, all this may well be happening today already.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:48:29 +0000
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