After recent controversies involving high-profile women behaving badly, one of the shibboleths of the modern era looks increasingly suspicious: #BelieveAllWomen.
The point that atheistic movements (seeing BLM as a variant of Marxism) backfire by bringing out the opposite of their intentions has actually been studied and written about, by Augusto Noce (I can give references if you like): consider Communism, which was meant to be bring about the 'realm of freedom' (a phrase of Marx's) and instead brought about the harshest totalitarian states, and Nazism, which was supposed to bring about Germany's primacy and defeat communism and capitalism, and instead led to Germany being partitioned between the communist and capitalist powers. So BLM leading to worse outcomes for black people is very much of the pattern (and for this reason I predicted this back in 2020).
With regard to demonizing dissidents, I was reminded of Solzhenitsyn's quote: “To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
On the question of whether democracy can last, the general idea of democracy overturning into dictatorship was already described beautifully by Plato, in the Republic.
The references to Macbeth you gave were very interesting.
Lastly, Noce also wrote a prescient passage in 1972, 50 years ago, on the general phenomenon you are tackling: "Today one of the topics most deserving of investigation is the transition to the “reign of woman.” Noventa, who was a traditionalist, wrote: “When a society starts pursuing an effeminate ideal, through its books and its laws, ‘women’ themselves and ‘men’ gradually abandon the leading elites, the social classes that produce those books and those laws, and take refuge among the common people. The field is taken over by ‘males’ and ‘females,’ by pederasts and lesbians. Where woman is submitted to man, intelligence and strength triumph; where man to woman, imagination and violence. Reign of woman: tyranny. Reign of women: anarchy.” Also, how could we forget that André Breton, in a work that I believe was his last, hailed the advent of the “reign of the woman” as the preparation for a radical transformation (Breton seemed to regard this reign as the equivalent, for the Surrealist revolution, of Communism’s “transitory” dictatorship of the proletariat)."
Really nice! A few thoughts:
The point that atheistic movements (seeing BLM as a variant of Marxism) backfire by bringing out the opposite of their intentions has actually been studied and written about, by Augusto Noce (I can give references if you like): consider Communism, which was meant to be bring about the 'realm of freedom' (a phrase of Marx's) and instead brought about the harshest totalitarian states, and Nazism, which was supposed to bring about Germany's primacy and defeat communism and capitalism, and instead led to Germany being partitioned between the communist and capitalist powers. So BLM leading to worse outcomes for black people is very much of the pattern (and for this reason I predicted this back in 2020).
With regard to demonizing dissidents, I was reminded of Solzhenitsyn's quote: “To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
On the question of whether democracy can last, the general idea of democracy overturning into dictatorship was already described beautifully by Plato, in the Republic.
The references to Macbeth you gave were very interesting.
Lastly, Noce also wrote a prescient passage in 1972, 50 years ago, on the general phenomenon you are tackling: "Today one of the topics most deserving of investigation is the transition to the “reign of woman.” Noventa, who was a traditionalist, wrote: “When a society starts pursuing an effeminate ideal, through its books and its laws, ‘women’ themselves and ‘men’ gradually abandon the leading elites, the social classes that produce those books and those laws, and take refuge among the common people. The field is taken over by ‘males’ and ‘females,’ by pederasts and lesbians. Where woman is submitted to man, intelligence and strength triumph; where man to woman, imagination and violence. Reign of woman: tyranny. Reign of women: anarchy.” Also, how could we forget that André Breton, in a work that I believe was his last, hailed the advent of the “reign of the woman” as the preparation for a radical transformation (Breton seemed to regard this reign as the equivalent, for the Surrealist revolution, of Communism’s “transitory” dictatorship of the proletariat)."