THE BLOCK PLAYERS

Most elementary schools begin with kindergarten. It provides children with the opportunity to play while it instills in them confidence in the school environment and prepares them for first grade and its more disciplined behavior. Blocks serve as one of the primary toys used to engage the thinking and imagination of children.

Children attempt to create with blocks objects that see outside of school. They build houses, bridges, walls, fortifications, vehicles, steps, tables, and a multitude of other things they have seen. The children also experiment with the characteristics of different shapes such as triangles, squares, rectangles, cubes, and cylinders. They experiment with balance, stability, rigidity, and utility of the different blocks and the structures that can be made with them. All children given the opportunity, at one time or another become block players.

Eventually kindergarten comes to and end and the children are promoted to first grade. Some instinctively look forward to this advancement in learning, some are motivated by their teachers to move on to greater learning, others are cajoled by their parents through a system of rewards and punishments to move on but some refuse to let go of their toys, especially their blocks. The blocks were their environment, which they fell in love with and did not want to leave behind. They would only leave kicking and screaming as they went.

Our creator has given us a material world or blocks to play with as part of our development. We build houses, bridges, walls, fortifications, and tables just as the children did. Our thinking being more developed that that of the children enables us to build much more. We build automobiles, ships, and airplanes. We build a host of material things, and only material things, because nothing else can be built with blocks.

Like the children, we fall in love with these material things, but unlike the kindergarten children who were taught to share their blocks with others, we are told to amass as many blocks as we can. The term frequently used to motivate children and young adults in the school system is: “Go to school, get and an education, make some money (a lot of blocks), so that you can be somebody (have a lot of blocks).”

There are institutions whose fulltime activities consist of motivating people to retain and increase the number of blocks they earned. They influence people to exchange their blocks for gold, silver, gems, artwork, real estate, stocks, bonds, and other blocks. Insurance and retirement plans serve as other vehicles for preserving blocks and protecting against the loss of blocks.

Most of the problems and illnesses of society relate to concern over its blocks. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, and fear all result from thinking about the amount of blocks we have, need, or want. Even generous people can only think in terms of blocks in helping others. They offer food, shelter, and clothing—all block materials. They do not understand that there is an unseen aspect to existence and that people might want love, appreciation, recognition, consideration, nurturing, security, belongingness, constancy, and stability, which cannot long be supplied by blocks if at all.

Block people—most of who were raised in a cubicle—have little awareness of the world that God created because they are so focused on the world that they created. Spiritual texts warn us about the preoccupation with the material world. The Bible states, “What does it suffer a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” In the Koran we find the words, “Your worldly riches are transitory.”

Various enlightened personages from the beginning of time have become ascetics as a result of their realization of the insignificance of wealth. Ramakrishna, the famous Hindu guru used to mix money with dirt and throw it into the river; it was not permitted to mention money in his ashram. The famous woman Muslim ascetic Rabia Al Basra’s only possessions were a torn mat to sleep on, a brick for a pillow and a chipped water jug. Hillel, the great teacher of the Talmud was so poor that he could not afford to attend the basic teachings of the Torah. The disciples of Jesus were penniless.

The block players are not deterred by these examples. They do not even see them, let alone understand them, so engrossed are they in the amassing of blocks. A block value is placed on every type of work and activity. Sports, entertainment, information, medicine, health, and recreation all have a block value.

Some block players have gained great power. They control the use of blocks throughout the world; they even control governments. They exploit the environment for the purpose of amassing blocks. They have polluted the air, water, and food chain all in the name of making it more efficient to produce and amass blocks.

The block players have suppressed the natural differences between men and women necessary for the proper propagation and preservation of the species while on its spiritual journey. They are not interested in any spiritual journey or condition of the human race. They have reduced men and women to work digits—they are even referred to as human resources—necessary in the calculation of the cost of production of blocks.

The world of the block players is deteriorating. People are developing respiratory problems from the polluted air, intestinal problems from the polluted water, a breakdown of bodily functions due to the polluted food, and mental breakdown do to the electronic media coupled with the materialistic value system that they are subjected to, which is unnatural to the human psyche.

Kindergarten will soon be over.

Like the children leaving kindergarten some people will intuitively know that blocks are transitory and that there are steps ahead to greater unfoldment. Others follow the teachings of enlightened masters, gurus, saints, and godmen who are advanced spiritually and can explain the reason to leave things behind. Still others will be cajoled by various religious influences through fear and punishment to let go of the blocks and move on. And still others will remain behind screaming and kicking fighting amongst themselves for more blocks.

We are living at the end of an era. Are we going to hang onto the blocks or let go and prepare ourselves for the growth that lies ahead? Are we ready to work together to foster a more natural way of life for humankind?

E.G.

SUPPRESION OF MALE INFLUENCE IN EDUCATION

Below is an edited version of an Email sent out by Peter Zohrab, a gender activist in New Zealand, concerning the attack on the male influence in educational institutions. The conditions that he describes in New Zealand and Australia occur in America as well, and throughout the Western world.

I addressed the gender bias in our education system in my blog The Boy Crises and in my essay The Reason for the Collapse of the American Educational System. If there is any concerted effort to reverse this trend I am unaware of it.

The suppression of the male influence runs contrary to the fundamental operation of the universe and everything in it. Gender is not a social construct or a religious fabrication; it is a fundamental metaphysical truth. Nothing moves in this universe without the interplay of gender. Nothing. The logical consequence of the suppression of the masculine influence by Western institutions is the collapse of the natural functioning of society and the intrusion into it by the various facets of government.

There can only be two reasons why Western society proceeds on this path of gender destruction; one is ignorance and the other is evil, or more properly stated an evil born of ignorance. My essay Ignorance Empowered Becomes Evil explains how this evil came about and how it is destroying our society.

Recently Vice President Biden announced that the government would take steps to tighten Title IX policy in our education institutions, a policy that already severely restricts male athletic activity. The government intends at every level to squeeze out of every segment of society any evidence of natural gender differences. This will enable it to control society completely. We are close to that point and many people have begun to realize it. Unfortunately most of them still hope to make change through the very institutions that perpetuate the evil of a genderless society.

If you recognize the negative effects of a genderless society and understand that change can only come about outside of the institutions that created it, then Men’s Action is the organization for you to support and get involved in. Our mission statement is to foster a natural way of life for humankind. Gender, family, and the patriarchal structure that supports it are natural. After you read the Email below I hope that you will recognize that Men’s Action serves as your only option for change.

E.G.

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Is there a deliberate Feminist strategy to scapegoat men in relation to the issue of sex abuse, in order to further the female domination of education, and hence of society as a whole?

In New Zealand, at least, there has been some publicity about the phenomenon of men schoolteachers and complaints. One estimate is that every man schoolteacher in New Zealand could expect to have no less than three complaints made against him per year - mainly over sexual misconduct and sexual harassment, etc.

Much the same thing has occurred in Australia, and men school teachers have to constantly be looking over their shoulder for silly and unfounded complaints that are usually about some little feminist not getting the marks she feels entitled to, and who is then pushed by mum to complain as a means of getting better marks. In at least one Australian high school, any discussions between a girl and a male teacher are held in a glass room in the middle of the playground, so that everybody can see what goes on.

Consequently, very few graduate men go into school teaching now -- nobody would put his head in that noose -- and the result is that -- you guessed it -- all those feminist indoctrinated little girls from university with their cheap and easy credits from Women's Studies are now running the show.

Some teacher unions indoctrinate female teachers with Feminist propaganda, e.g. by sending them a special newlsetter, which is only for female teachers. In this way, many female teachers may end up believing Feminist propaganda, because they have no access to alternative information on the relevant topics. If they end up believing Feminist propaganda, then they are Feminists, and it doesn't matter if they are generally thought of as Feminists or not.

Fergusson et al. (1991a) gives the following as the reason for boys' comparatively low educational achievement in schools:... the higher rate of educational under-achievement in males was adequately explained by gender related differences in classroom behaviours with males being more prone to disruptive and inattentive classroom behaviours that appeared to impede male learning and lead to a male educational disadvantage.

That may or may not be a correct conclusion for the authors to have drawn. If so, there remains the question of why males are "more prone to disruptive and inattentive classroom behaviours." The answer to that question may lie in Fergusson et al. (1991b), which finds that...

in the areas of reading and written expression teachers showed consistent tendencies to evaluate the performance of girls more favourably than the (sic) boys even after adjustment for gender differences in objective test scores were made.

This introduces the possibility that most teachers are anti-male, which is a fact that former teachers like ourselves can testify to. It is possible that, with most teachers being female, and even most of the male teachers being feminist, some of the boys pick up on the anti-male atmosphere and are turned off.

It is interesting that the same classroom behavior by boys has often been described by feminists as hogging teachers' attention and impeding female learning! Feminist teachers have, firmly implanted in their brains, the notion that females are disadvantaged, and this has the following results:

- They interpret, as much as possible, every difference between boys and girls as a disadvantage suffered by girls;

- They interpret, as much as possible, any attempt to help boys as an attempt to divert effort away from helping girls;- They actively intervene to bias systems and processes in a way that advantages girls;

- They are unable to conceive of bias against boys as being possible, or -- if possible -- as being a bad thing;

- They are biased against boys in their teaching and assessment;

- They turn some boys off the educational process, resulting in poor academic performance.

Students who make false accusations against male teachers, or who behave provocatively towards them should be disciplined, and other measures should be undertaken to make schools a safe and attractive working environment for male teachers -- both for the benefit of the teachers concerned and for the benefit of the male students.

A LETTER FROM ERIN

Last week I received an Email from a woman the contents of which I thought would be of interest to all of us. I posted it under Men’s Action News, which already contains two letters received from women this year, and am also including it in this essay as the subscriber list only disseminates copies of essays.

The Email reads as follows:

Elder George,

Thank you for your thought provoking messages. I appreciate your insight.

You often say that we need to do something, but I am unsure what I should do to help rebuild society besides what I already do every day. Support my husband and raise my children. I am a stay at home mother of two little girls and am striving to feed our family real food, teach them what is right and wrong, how to work and be industrious, and the many other things. As a family we choose not to participate in the unnatural lifestyle that the US embraces. I try to speak, act, and look feminine and encourage other women to embrace their femininity. I am not “normal” either, and I don’t know how I can help change the current trends except refuse to participate and support it.

Is that the call to action that you mean? Simply refusing to participate in an unnatural lifestyle? I’m afraid that only a minority of people will actually do this, so how can we live naturally in a world of enslavement? What action do you hope to inspire in your readers when you encourage us to action?

Erin

This letter from Erin reflects not only her own concerns but also represents the thinking and insecure feeling of a multitude of full-time wives and mothers throughout the Western world. She wants her children to have healthy bodies, developed minds and moral behavior. How can she feel secure that these aspirations will see reality when the majority of the children in our society no longer live in a home with both natural parents in it? Forty percent of the children of this nation are born to unwed mothers. Of those that were born into a home containing their natural parents the likelihood is that they will be separated or divorced before the child reaches 18 years of age. All governmental institutions support these trends; none even address the natural patriarchal structure necessary for family development. Erin and all the women in her position and who share her values have become familial anomalies; that’s not a secure position from which to raise a family.

Not only do these women see the value structure of society deteriorating, but they also see the material world that it rests upon crumbling as well. In just one week the news media addressed the following: a congressional investigation of the devastation wrought upon the world economy by powerful financial interests, the destruction of the Gulf eco-environment due to massive oil contamination, the severe flooding of Nashville, the recall of products from a pharmaceutical company whose name is a household word, and the recall of a nutritional supplement that contained 1,000 times the prescribed dosage of vitamin D and which resulted in the severe illness of the formulator of the product. We are witnessing the imperfections of the material world that man created and its resultant havoc. As mothers and wives attempt to give out nurturing love the very foundations that they stand upon shake and crumble.

These insecure conditions cause Erin to question what she and others can do about it. She asks if living her life as best she can and avoiding the unnatural is enough. It’s a big step. If everyone would do that the world would begin to change. She is changing the world. However, what she is looking for is the support of others who share her values. What if something happened to her husband? She needs support in times of tribulation that will help to maintain the environment that enables her to nurture.

Erin’s letter has moved me to further focus on a change in direction for Men’s Action that I had already been considering; however, in addressing the avenue to change I strongly urge all readers to review our mission statement. Unlike most mission statements that only state objectives, the mission statement of Men’s Action contains the strategies necessary to attain its objectives. The only thing required at this time—and what Erin is really asking for—is the establishment of an organizational structure that can implement these strategies. In this regard and at this very time, I am having correspondence with some of our supporters exchanging views as to a change in direction for Men’s Action.

Perhaps the most significant message in Erin’s letter remains unsaid but clearly implied. The women who her letter represents want to do their utmost to nurture the race; they know they need the participation of men to provide the environment and means for it to take place. I ask the men who are reading this essay to re-familiarize themselves with the last five chapters of my book Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility. In answer to the question that men have asked me so many times “What do the women say” I reprint the following from chapter XXXV: “You will have more than just support from women, they will throw flowers at your feet and place garlands on your head.” Men’s Action continues to receive increasing support from women because they see that it focuses on the fundamental unit of human existence—the family—the center from which they can nurture the race.

More and more people have begun to realize that the material world is collapsing along with the institutions that it relies upon it. They have turned to the spirit, to the unseen power for help. Many independent organizations have sprung up in which people live a more simple life and meditate, pray, and chant. This is a natural response to the failure of materialism and is part of the cyclic nature of humankind. When materialism flourishes the spirit is forgotten, and when materialism fails, the spirit is sought after.

However, even in its quest after matters spiritual Western thought puts its imprimatur upon its practice. Western thought believes spiritual energy will fulfill our every desire, giving us peace, happiness, and fulfillment. The responsibility to propagate and preserve the race including its spiritual development remains unstated. Western thought—even if immersed in the spirit—cannot readily grasp the concept that nothing happens in this universe without the interplay of gender. Nothing.

All these groups that are searching for the spirit are well meaning and in some way contribute to the betterment of the world; however, significant change will not come about until their practices become infused with the virility of the male. Men’s Action is the only spiritually based gender oriented organization that relies on understanding of truth instead of a belief structure. Beliefs change. Truth never changes.

Having given this brief metaphysical explanation I now call upon the men to step forward and help to bring men’s Action a step closer to becoming a viable organization that can serve people who want to live a more natural way of life. You can help in preparing the structure that will result in cells, clubs, congregations, or whatever, that will provide a basis of both meeting and outreach. You can indicate that you are ready to assume the responsibility of running such a unit or participating in it.

The women have shown their hand many times and will continue to do so, especially if they see the involvement of men that they can rely upon. They will nurture the organization within the full context of nurturing and will help to bring it to maturity. It’s time for the men to step forward. Let me hear from you. Today.

E.G.