<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892</id><updated>2012-01-24T07:44:24.137-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Message from Elder George</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>117</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2567134484672152182</id><published>2012-01-24T06:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T07:44:24.147-08:00</updated><title type='text'>IT’S TIME TO LOOK FOR A LIFEBOAT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday in a discussion with a colleague I stated that Western society couldn’t be fixed and that it would not last much longer. It is built on a weak or un-natural foundation. Any further tinkering will only move the problems from one location to another, but the overall health and well-being of society will continue to degenerate. Western society is a sinking ship, and now is the time to look for a good lifeboat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Section IV of our mission statement contains steps for living a more healthful life that will lead to health options in addition to those provided by drug companies and the AMA. These steps will lead to having a lifeboat. On November 6, 2011 I posted the essay Holistic Healing Available from Men’s Action, as a step in fulfilling the mission statement. Two of our subscribers took advantage of this healing and their testimonials follow:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cluster Headaches&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suffered from cluster headaches for 25 years. These headaches would occur about every two years lasting a few months each time and causing severe pain. The pain of cluster headaches is so severe that they are known as “suicide headaches” due to the fact that some sufferers have chosen to end their lives rather than endure the pain of the headaches, which can be described as a stabbing, and tearing pain located behind the eye socket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took pain pills along with a prophylaxis but nothing helped. When Elder George started treating me from New York City I stopped taking pain pills at the end of the first week. I stopped taking prophylaxis a couple of weeks later. The headaches have not returned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks Elder George&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;B.C. Torrance, CA Nov 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arthritic Ankle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the mid 1970's I was in a rather serious auto accident. Among other injuries my right foot was crushed. The resulting arthritic condition had worsened over the last several years and my radius of operation had been decreasing. The pain had become severe and I considered pain management as the next medical procedure.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;One day Elder George whom I had never met but considered a close friend from internet correspondence, suggested I give Pranic Healing a try. I thought, “Sure, what have I got to lose?” I was not familiar with the concept of Prana but George said it had worked for him (and when one is in pain one is open to experimentation with whatever offers relief). We agreed to try three sessions a week for a month to see if it helped. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A few hours after my phone conversation with George (he was in New York and I was in California), I was sitting in my chair in my office when I felt this wave flow through me. The feeling was sort of like when one takes a deep breath and holds it for a time to build up the tension and then lets it out. I had never spontaneously witnessed this sensation before. (I assumed that George was doing his Energy Healing).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Over the next few days I became aware that my ankle felt different. It was very subtle and I am unable to describe the difference. I do know that I was striding out more confidently, unconcerned with the likelihood of pain. Prior to my treatments I would be hesitant in my movements, anticipating the discomfort with each step.I was stunned at how quickly the pain ceased. I have essentially no pain in my ankle when I walk now. One day I walked several miles with no pain. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;And the very best part: I did not have to do a thing. The pain just magically disappeared.Thank you Elder George&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H. D. Sacramento, CA January 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The purpose of my article of last November was to acquaint you with one of many forms of alternative healing. A dream of mine is to someday have on our website a list containing the names of practitioners of alternate forms of healing. Until then look in your own area and give them a try. If you cannot find one that you are confident with, send me an Email or give me a call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I treat you there is no taking time off from work, no travel time or expense, and no physical examinations. I can examine any body, anywhere, and at any time. As H.D. said above “The pain just magically disappeared.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I strongly urge all of you to prepare for the day when the Western way of life degenerates into deep collapse—a collapse that has already begun and is intensifying. Please do not give these articles a complacent Ho-Hum response or you will get caught up in the sinking of our grossly materialistic ship without a lifeboat available to you. I am offering you a lifeboat now. Start thinking and living differently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One way you can do this is to contact me for any ailments that you might have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have nothing to lose but your aches and pains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2567134484672152182?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2567134484672152182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2567134484672152182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-time-to-look-for-lifeboat.html' title='IT’S TIME TO LOOK FOR A LIFEBOAT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4480276758293418643</id><published>2011-12-31T08:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T08:06:46.582-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AN IMAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR</title><content type='html'>Most of us have two images of ourselves, the one on the inside that only we see and the one that we project on the outside for others to see. The difference between these two images produces stress within us; the greater the degree of difference the greater the degree of stress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the outer projections that we concern ourselves with might focus on how we appear to our fellow employees, the boss, our customers, the opposite sex, our family, our neighbors, or those we socialize with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Various self-help courses and support groups that have as an objective the improvement of our outer image only make matters worse. They increase the distance between what we think of ourselves and what we are trying to project. The preoccupation with how we look on the outside causes great stress on the inside,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This same dichotomy of images appears on the national level as well. The Western world focuses on the outside, on gross domestic product and the acquisition of things. Society bombards itself with motivations to buy a better car, more stylish clothes, more expensive vacations, higher paying jobs, more profitable investments, and more ornate homes as part of efforts to become “somebody.” That “somebody” is the image that we try to project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Projecting one image and living a different image causes anxiety and stress on a national level just as it does on the individual level. In essence we are living a lie. Living a lie causes great pressure on the mind and psyche because it involves acting on a continuous basis and also makes us unduly sensitive to the comments and evaluations of others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Western world gives the image of strength on the outside it is crumbling on the inside. The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue of England, the United States and Canada is mental illness. The National Institute for Mental Illness estimates that at any given time 25% of Americans suffer from mental issues. The number one debilitating illness of the American woman and European woman is depression. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as individuals suffer from focusing on the outside, nations and cultures do so as well. All of Western society and all nations that have accepted the Western culture suffer from stress and the mental, physical, and spiritual effects resulting there from. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another way to live consists of focusing on the inside. When I lived in Harlem one of the songs sung in the black churches was titled “Working on the inside, changing on the outside.” That song expresses a great spiritual truth. Who we are on the inside governs what we express on the outside. Gandhi said, “If you want to change the world, start with yourself.” When we change ourselves we change what we express and the responses of others as they react to what we express. That’s how we can change the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A loving mother who devotes herself to her family and who constantly pours out nurturing love changes the world. She fills her environment with peace and calm. She has an aura of love about her that fills the home. Her children reflect this environment in their joy, happiness, and contentment; anxiety, tension, and anger do not reside in them. The man who provides the safe and secure environment and means for his wife to function in enables her to manifest her unconditional love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no greater contribution that can be given to humankind than the raising of well-balanced, caring, and obedient children. They will grow up with an attitude of giving rather than taking and of sharing rather than owning. What a child learns when he is young he will remember all his life. The place for good learning is a happy home and that can only come about through the dedication of a caring mother and father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The finest universities and the most brilliant professors cannot do for this world what a stable and loving home environment can do. Long after this era of material information and technology passes, loving and caring homes will remain. They will prosper as the decline of materialism accelerates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time that we live outside of the materially focused and government dominated environment and start living our lives simply and lovingly. It’s time to get rid of the individual anxiety and national angst produced by the environment of an uncaring and selfish society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let not forget that this world was designed by a great power. That power sent prophets throughout the world since the beginning of human existence to teach us how to live in this world. Problems ensue when we start to live outside of these teachings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our present society has made a God of materialism. It has created a multitude of material edifices that it worships. The power that created this world in the snapping of his fingers can bring down the works that man labored years, decades, and centuries to create. In the snapping of his fingers he brings about earthquakes, floods, and storms that in moments destroy and wash away dams, bridges, tunnels, buildings and all the other edifices of material accomplishment and worship. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As this year begins we are witnessing the accelerating destruction of, and the discontent with, the world that man has built. Every continent witnesses continuing demonstrations of discontent by people of various races, religions, and ethnicities. We know that something is wrong but we don’t know what it is yet. Eventually circumstance will force us to recognize the balance of nature, the Yin and Yang of existence, and the divine purpose of propagating and preserving the species while on our spiritual journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are receiving help from our creator as with increasing frequency he brings down the works of man and the power of the mighty. The meek shall inherent the earth is a great spiritual truism. They always do. Let us be meek and work on the person within. The more that person develops the greater the good he will be able to accomplish in this world. Let’s get rid of the false person on the outside and let the true person on the inside reflect our goodness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My thoughts are with you all as we enter this year of challenge and growth. Let’s live simply, share what we have, love God and be kind to all. That will produce inner peace along with a great image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4480276758293418643?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4480276758293418643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4480276758293418643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/12/image-for-new-year.html' title='AN IMAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-1419257607228777904</id><published>2011-12-21T06:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T06:37:01.413-08:00</updated><title type='text'>RON PAUL AND MEDIA SUBTERFUGE</title><content type='html'>In 20 years of writing and lecturing about gender I have never endorsed a political candidate or party at any level of government here or abroad. If an organizational structure is fundamentally unsound, there is nothing that can be done within it to make it sound, healthy, or viable. My thinking has not changed concerning this matter; nevertheless, I will make comments concerning the political field for the forthcoming presidential elections as it relates to the control of the media and its manipulation of public opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my previous essay titled Herman Cain and Media Gossip I indicated that the world financial interests controlling the media used gossip to destroy the masculine influence in society. This essay will show the influence of the media in determining who runs for the office of President of the United States. To those in other nations who subscribe to this website you will find that the media in your country also has a manipulative and often subtle influence in the political sphere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Republican presidential activity has produced many candidates of various abilities and persuasions although Mitt Romney has maintained his position as the frontrunner. Many have reached the number two position only to fade away as the campaign progressed. Palin, Bachman, Perry, Cain and Gingrich have all had their time in second place in the polls. This change of position is a natural occurrence as voters become aware of and then evaluate candidates and their political philosophies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media appears to give each candidate fair coverage within the philosophy of the program doing the reporting. However, there is one candidate who has consistently held third place in the polling, has never lost momentum, whose name is mentioned infrequently and whose picture only rarely receives publication. That name is Ron Paul, and he has been in the shadow of media political reporting for the entire year. Now that Gingrich is fading the media can no longer keep Ron Paul in the shadows, they now have to acknowledge his presence and address it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They address it in a very negative but subtle manner as occurred on Meet the Press when David Gregory interviewed Ron Paul. On the surface it appears that Meet the Press gave Ron Paul national recognition, but closer examination will reveal that David Gregory’s questions focused on what Ron Paul thought of Romney and Gingrich. They did not focus on Ron Paul’s views. The millions of viewers who tuned in to that program knew little more about Ron Paul after the interview was over than before it started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, Ron Paul’s popularity in the polls continues to increase, which required more aggressive and subtler reporting. On Hardball the panel addressed the negative effect on the Republican Party if Ron Paul developed a stronger following. Why the concern about the negative effects that Ron Paul’s ascendancy can cause within his own party? They should exhibit joy at the prospect of the republican’s rallying behind someone that would be injurious to themselves. Why not give him a lot of exposure to help him become a divisive factor in the party? Hardball, and all the political programs of MSNBC are liberal and Democrat oriented. Why this feigned compassion for their enemies? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media ignored Ron Paul for all of 2011. Now that they have to address him they have begun to attack him. The early attacks have been subtle, but as the days pass the attacks will become more direct and vicious. Watch how the media conducts itself regarding the candidacy of Ron Paul in the time remaining before the Iowa caucuses. They are starting to mention Santorum and Huntsman as viable candidates with more frequency while digging up what dirt they can find in Paul’s past. This by the way, is more gossip and subterfuge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of your political persuasion ask yourselves why this is so. What accounts for the fear of little 77 year-old Ron Paul by the forces that control the media?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any comments will be published under Member Editorial.&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-1419257607228777904?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1419257607228777904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1419257607228777904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/12/ron-paul-and-media-subterfuge.html' title='RON PAUL AND MEDIA SUBTERFUGE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-1405418879028195914</id><published>2011-12-19T07:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T07:21:14.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HERMAN CAIN AND THE POWER OF MEDIA GOSSIP</title><content type='html'>Herman Cain dropped out of the American presidential campaign due to the negative media attention given to the claim by a woman that she had an intimate relationship with him for 13 years. Why did she feel compelled to make that announcement after thirteen years and why was the focus of impropriety on Cain and not her? He didn’t date a married woman. She dated a married man and in her own words, not for love but for sex and money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actions like hers have been traditionally viewed as whoredom, and the Cain affair provides an excellent opportunity to address the subject in the context of Western society; however, the focus of this essay will be on the timing of the Cain revelations and the reason for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A review of occurrences similar to the Cain affair will show that they follow a certain pattern. Adverse media publicity also affected the career and domestic life of world famous golfer Tiger Woods for his sex relations with porn queens, hookers, and an assortment of groupies. Negative media publicity concerning sexual activity adversely affected the career of then governor of New York Eliot Spitzer. The presidential campaign of Gary Hart came to an abrupt halt when the media publicized his trysts with a single woman. Justice Clarence Thomas’ nomination for the Supreme Court became jeopardized and his reputation tarnished forever when a woman accused him of improper sexual conversation and remarks. John Edwards had to dropout of the 2008 presidential race because of media hounding due to his relationship with a staff member. These men were all at or approaching the peak of their careers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None of the above men had sexual relationships with married women, nor did they invade the sanctity of someone else’s marriage; nevertheless, their careers and reputations were negatively affected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The women who had sexual relationships with these men did invade the sanctity of another marriage; they committed adultery and whoredom. They also prospered from their activities. The accusing women appeared on television and radio talk shows, wrote columns for magazines, had their pictures featured in magazines, lectured, and even got jobs. The most flagrant example of a double gender standard occurred in the case of Eliot Spitzer who had to resign from his post in disgrace, while the prostitute he consorted with got a job as a columnist with a New York newspaper. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What motivated these women to have these relationships, why did they step forward and announce their behavior to the world, and why did the media harass and denigrate the men while not even casting negative aspersions towards the women?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first two parts of this question relate to whoredom; the third part has the most significance for this essay. Why did the media harass and denigrate these men? Why at that critical point in their careers did the media choose to focus a fusillade of criticism at them? Why did it highlight every allegation of impropriety whether substantiated or not? These questions probe the very heart of the moral issue in America and the Western world. The power that controls the media has focused on the destruction of male authority and influence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men provide the ethics from which moral behavior derives. No men—no ethics—no ethics—no morals. The subject of morals never arose in the attack on these men. When a society lacks a moral system laws and punishment must be developed to prevent chaos form spreading throughout society. The growth in the number of laws relates to the growth of government and all aspects of law enforcement. The prison population continues to increase and security measures such as inspections, hidden cameras, and the ever present security guards, abound in all facets of society&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government influence has entered into every area of private and public life including the raising of children, form of education, medical practice, licensing of vocations, marriage licenses, incorporation of business and a host of other activities that impinge upon every aspect of daily living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Examples of government involvement in the lives of Western society abound in my books and previous essays; this essay focuses on the controlling powers in Western society who by working through the media maintain a constant and concerted effort to debase the male.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This effort works through the entertainment media as well as the news media, although the line of distinction between the two has become blurred. In essence all media have become vehicles of entertainment. Talk shows, panel shows, and political analysis all provide entertainment value. Women love gossip, and since the majority of viewers now consist of women, the shows maintain a gossip orientation. The proliferation of women in the media provides a large pool of those who have the capability and motivation to create gossip. Male panelists and journalists now gossip the same as women do—they have all become gossipy entertainers. Gossip permeates sports programs as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A reflection on the downfall and/or negative images that accrued to the men mentioned at the outset of this essay will reveal that all of it occurred as the result of gossip. Gossip fueled by well-orchestrated efforts of the media in accordance with the directives of those who control world finance now fells the mighty. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The organizations that the accused men in this article belonged to did not attack, reprimand, censured, or expel them; nor were they subject to litigation other than for possible misuse of funds. These men were brought down by gossip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any organization that condones gossip will self-destruct, which is the reason that all female organizations eventually fail. They cannot sustain themselves. The Western world cannot sustain itself; it is based on gossip. Gossip destroys. It destroyed Herman Cain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-1405418879028195914?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1405418879028195914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1405418879028195914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/12/herman-cain-and-power-of-media-gossip.html' title='HERMAN CAIN AND THE POWER OF MEDIA GOSSIP'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-1969336367074258736</id><published>2011-11-06T13:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T13:58:17.411-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HOLISTIC HEALING AVAILABLE FROM MEN’S ACTION</title><content type='html'>The fourth item of the Men’s Action Mission Statement reads, “Foster respect for the environment and a life style that results in health and well being.” A part of the strategy to bring about this segment of the mission statement calls for promoting holistic health.&lt;br /&gt;Two basic considerations led me to the decision to include holistic health in the mission statement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first consideration came about as a result of the drug and/or cut philosophy of modern medicine, which I find lacking in understanding of the cause and cure of illness. This is not to say that that humankind has not derived benefits from painless and reconstructive dentistry along with bionic orthopedic surgery; however, these technological developments in essence deal with illness not health. Not infrequently surgeries need to be redone for the reason that they have addressed the effect and not the cause. Prescription drugs deal with effects as well and for the most part do not heal anything, but create bodily dependencies for these drugs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second consideration leading to the promotion of holistic healing was what I perceived to be the unsustainable ability to pay for the increasing use of drug therapy. The soaring use of prescription drugs has now contributed to an economic crisis in America and the rest of the world. Instead of focusing on how to pay for prescription drugs the emphasis should be on how to prevent the need for their use; however, this thinking has not presented itself on the medical or political spectrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My goal is to have practitioners of various alternative-healing systems provide their services at no-charge or reduced-charge to those in need under the auspices of Men’s Action. A segment of this activity has begun, and I take this opportunity to share it with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About two and a half years ago I took the basic course in pranic healing. After completing it I treated a Mexican woman who worked in a neighborhood store and the results are contained in the following testimony:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;When elder George first started treating me my back ached across the shoulders, across the lower back and along the sides. I had migraine headaches, a chronic earache and congestion in my throat. I had also just been diagnosed as having a hypothyroid condition and had been put on medication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After two weeks of treatment my back no longer ached. Then my throat congestion disappeared. After that my migraine headaches disappeared. On my next visit to the doctor he was amazed at how fast my thyroid improved and cut my daily dosage of medication in half. On my next visit to the doctor he said my thyroid was functioning normally. I no longer take any medication. Elder George treated me three times a week for two months. S.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After having achieved that level of success I began to practice on other people. Since then I have completed the advanced course and the psycho therapy course and am now in a position to provide healing for most any condition presented to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point you might ask the question, What is Pranic Healing? The energy of the universe is called Prana in India, Chi in China, Ji in Japan and flows through our bodies. When our bodies malfunction the energy flow becomes blocked and congested. Pranic healing wipes away this blockage restoring normal energy flow to the afflicted part. It also energizes the afflicted organ, muscle or bone to hasten its recovery and return to natural functioning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panic healing can be performed remotely. I treated a man in California who had cluster headaches for 25 years. He stopped taking pain medication after the first week and all signs of his affliction disappeared after four weeks of treatment. I treated a 69 year-old woman in Brooklyn who I never met and who suffered from an abdominal disorder and severe arthritic pain in her right leg. After six weeks of treatments she no longer has any discomfort. Most treatments are given two to three times a week and most of the time they are done remotely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have treated fibroids, irregular and painful menstruation, arthritis, and especially the effects of stress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In accordance with my original plan I offer these treatments at very low prices. In New York City pranic healers receive $100 per treatment. I charge $35 and give discounts for extended treatment. Sometimes I do it for nothing for the needy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Healing can be instantaneous or take years, depending on the severity of the ailment, how long it has existed, and the general vitality of the person afflicted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are pranic healers in most countries, and by using the internet you can probably find one near you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to try my services I charge $50 for the initial examination and treatment and then $35 per treatment thereafter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collapse of Western society is accelerating throughout the world. To those of you who either subscribe to this website, have read my books, newspaper articles, and viewed my videos, you know that I do not believe in fixing the system, but in learning how to live outside of it. Item IV of the Mission Statement focuses on health, and one aspect of health is healing. I described one venue here. You choose what you feel is right for you. Your body is the holy temple given to you by your creator—take care of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point I will share with you my own physical condition, as I believe people who espouse a certain way of life should for the most part be representative of it. I was born with the average number of bodily imperfections and defects and had my share of surgeries that these defects eventually necessitated. Nevertheless, I plan on celebrating my 82nd birthday next month. I do not take medications—prescription or otherwise—and my blood pressure averages 120/70. This condition did not come about by accident but by a conscious effort to improve the strength and natural functioning of my body. During the past 25 years I added naturopathic health practices to the conventional care I received. I also became a vegetarian and no longer drink alcoholic beverages. I have done yoga exercises for most of my adult life. In short I try to live the natural lifestyle that I promote. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who would like to try my services I make a special offering, just make a $50 donation, (the donate button is a few inches below my picture on &lt;a href="http://www.mensaction.net/"&gt;www.mensaction.net&lt;/a&gt;) send me you name, birth date, and a description of your ailments and I will give you &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; treatments and then get back to you with a treatment plan. You have nothing to lose except your aches and pains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you all for your consideration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-1969336367074258736?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1969336367074258736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1969336367074258736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/11/holistic-healing-available-from-mens.html' title='HOLISTIC HEALING AVAILABLE FROM MEN’S ACTION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2349889134358338108</id><published>2011-10-10T08:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T08:50:44.405-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CLUTTER AND THE DEMISE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION</title><content type='html'>A book titled &lt;em&gt;Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui&lt;/em&gt; unintentionally serves as an excellent treatise on the effects of the gross materialism of Western society. Author Karen Kingston’s book makes no reference to gender but it serves as an example of the gender imbalance of the West and the physical, mental, and spiritual cluttering that occurs at every level of society from the individual to the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She refers to the universal free flow of energy and how clutter or non-utilized material objects interfere with this free flow of energy. Stockpiled materials become energy congestion centers that inhibit the flow of energy and produce a malfunctioning of the environment and those within it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The relationship of blocked energy to malfunction applies to the smallest cell of the body and the largest nebulae. The field of pranic healing also understands the principle that blocked energy causes malfunction. Any malfunctioning body part can be restored to normal function by the removal of the blockage and reenergizing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The indigenous people of the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific lived simple and uncluttered lives, which helped to provide them with physical, mental, and spiritual health. They could not understand Western man’s desire to accumulate material things. In an address to his people American Indian Chief Sitting Bull said that the white man’s desire to accumulate things was like a disease. It wasn’t like a disease; it is a disease and it has cluttered and infected every aspect of Western society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kingston indicates that among other things, clutter can cause weight gain, depression, and disharmony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding weight gain the United States has the highest percentage of diabetics per population in the world. Thirty percent of the nation suffers from obesity, and overweight people are the norm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depression is the number one illness of the American woman with upwards of 10% of the adult female population suffering from that ailment. Depression affects 15% of European women. The World Health Organization reports that mental illness comprises the number one health issue of England, the United States and Canada. The Western world is going insane amid its clutter of materiality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding disharmony, divorce is on the increase, marriage is on the decrease and broken relationships are the norm in the Western world. America has the highest percentage of people involved in litigation as members of society become increasingly incapable of relating with each other in a positive and considerate manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depression, obesity, and disharmony if not causative are at least contributing factors to the high rates of breast cancer, fibroids, and menstrual issues that occur among Western women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In light of these significant issues affecting the bulk of Western society throughout the world one would expect that they would be major areas for the political system and governments to address. Instead governments focus on the economy –on producing more. Fed Chairman Bernanke has lowered interest rates so that businesses will invest more and produce more. Secretary of the Treasury Geitner said that America most produce its way out of the recession. World banks have concerns about debtor nations being able to produce enough to retire their debts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Western psyche focuses on producing more material stuff, which ultimately becomes junk or clutter. This increase in the production of goods has caused garbage disposal to become an increasingly costly and dangerous issue. The Western world has created a self-defeating cycle of producing stuff that it must eventually dispose of. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The solutions to Western clutter issues come from the East, and while Karen Kingston does not state that in her book she nevertheless refers to karma, metaphysics, fasting, aura, and Feng Shui itself, which are all of Asian origin. A review of the five part series A Gender History of Europe on this website will illustrate why this is so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In saying that the solutions come from the East, does not mean that they come from Eastern people. Western thought has permeated the globe and an example can be seen from the comments made by an Egyptian revolutionary who addressed the Wall Street Demonstrators and alluded to the merits of Communism. Whether followers of Marx or Smith, communism or capitalism, the Western psyche can only focus on matters material irrespective of the person’s racial, ethnic or religious orientation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The focus on jobs, the economy, taxes, profits, inflation, investment, and retirement by the entire political spectrum of all nations indicates their addiction to matters material and the inability to understand the purpose and meaning of life. The world is drowning in the effects of the mental, physical and pyshic junk that it has produced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issues of Western society cannot be resolved until there is a change in thinking from its imbalanced feminine materialistic orientation into a more balanced patriarchal understanding that focuses on the propagation and preservation of the species as part of its spiritual journey. There must be a balance between material and spiritual activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This change will come about either through a mass spiritual insight or a mass destruction of society, as we know it. Either way the thinking of humankind will be changed and Western thought alond with its junk will be buried. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2349889134358338108?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2349889134358338108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2349889134358338108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/10/clutter-and-demise-of-western.html' title='CLUTTER AND THE DEMISE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2042530642651386113</id><published>2011-09-27T05:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T05:44:57.264-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE NATURAL LIFESTYLE</title><content type='html'>At a recent gathering of Men’s Action supporters consisting of five men and one woman I asked them to imagine the following scenario:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In leaving the meeting we noticed that there weren’t any people on the streets, no vehicles were moving, and all indications of human life had ceased to exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the men had a car and toured the area but could not find any people. We then decided to spend the night at the store where we had our meeting. Besides myself, one man was in his mid 40’s and the other three were in their late 20’s or early30’s. The woman was in her early 20’s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon after the realization that there might not be any life other than us, the men selected a leader and then formed a plan of action. The man whose business we met at was also the one in his 40’s and he became the leader and I served as the elder with whom the group discussed their plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We decided that the woman would mate with one of the three younger men. She was given a period of time to decide who she wanted to mate with. During that time period each of the three men tried to convince her why he would be the better mate. This activity represented the fundamental activity and purpose of mating. Fortunately for the woman, she had no competition, but even if she had, the same mating ritual would occur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The men developed basic moral standards designed to protect the well-being of the group. The safety of the woman was of paramount importance, for without her the hopes of propagating the species were non-existent. She was never left unprotected; she never walked a step without the watchful eye of one of the men upon her. No monetary value could be placed upon her. Gold and silver had no more value that sticks and stones. Everyone shared what they had for there was no purpose in keeping anything that did not serve the well-being of the group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Food and bottled water from the abandoned stores provided for our sustenance, but the availability of electricity and running water had ended thus creating the need for different methods of sanitation and living habits. Finding new sources of water, energy, and methods of sanitation became full time activities for the men, as did feeding, cleaning, mending, and nurturing for the woman. Also, methods of self-defense had to be developed to protect against any wild animals or unfriendly strangers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually sources of fresh water were located, and rudimentary farming begun. The woman produced offspring and a tribal culture evolved. Spiritual focus rapidly developed, as we realized that we lived in an environment that was completely dependent upon our creator. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The woman developed a sense of respect and gratitude for the men who helped to provide all that she needed and were willing to die to protect her. The men developed an appreciation for the nurturing care that she gave to them and her offspring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The group evolved to the lifestyle they were designed to live; they loved and devoted themselves to each other and worshipped God as they proceeded on their spiritual journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;As this scenario unfolded the listeners agreed that it represented the most likely way our relationship would evolve under the circumstances presented. They also agreed that this relationship was more wholesome, safe, and secure than the individualized self-indulgent materialistic lifestyle of Western society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lifestyle described in the above scenario reflects the manner in which indigenous peoples all over the world lived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two fundamental lifestyles. One involves propagating and preserving the species as humankind progresses on its spiritual journey; the other involves exploiting a finite materialistic world for individual gain and self-aggrandizement. The Western psyche has chosen the latter and is now paying the price for this ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The control of the world by international finance stems from the gross materialistic belief and practices of the populace at all levels. “Go to school, get an education so that you can get a good job and make a lot of money and be somebody” has become the international mantra of Western society. The worship of materiality as the solution to all problems pervades Western social mores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demonstrations against the practices of government and finance by conservatives and liberals alike are well-meaning but do not address the fundamental issue. They believe the system can be fixed. They do not understand that a system of gross materialism can never be fixed. A genderless society can never survive—it is purposeless and the antithesis to natural living—it is an aberration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must learn to live outside of the system, an activity that will become increasingly necessary as the collapse of Western society accelerates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recommend that you review the Mission Statement of Men’s Action as a guide to participating in the lifestyle necessary for survival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2042530642651386113?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2042530642651386113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2042530642651386113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/09/natural-lifestyle.html' title='THE NATURAL LIFESTYLE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2563760596765621418</id><published>2011-07-27T04:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T10:48:00.237-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SHUDDERING BEFORE THE GOD OF MATERIALISM</title><content type='html'>The world financial crises, especially the crises in the United States has created warnings from those on high that unless national budgets are made and adhered to there will be serious consequences. Almost daily, talk shows interview those from the materialistic hierarchy who warn humankind of the grave consequences of their fiscal irresponsibility. The Western world in general and the United States in particular suffer from angst as they hear pronouncement that the gods and very-gods of finance, industry, and investment are angered by the irresponsible behavior of governments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This fear has come about by the worship of the material world and those who run it; they have become high priests in a materialistic hierarchy. The high priests express anger and concern over fiscal irresponsibility because it portends the end of their power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Humankind needs to realize—and will in fact learn—that the world will continue to function; the Sun will still shine, the earth will still produce, and humankind will survive, just at it did long before the advent of Western materialistic thought. People survive plague, pestilence, drought, famine, and floods. Only governments fail. The creations of man always fail and the creations of God always remain. Frequently the cost of learning this truth is high, but the truth will be learned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The words of God speaking through the prophet Jeremiah were, “You have forgotten who I am. I am the one who gave you everything. I gave you cisterns of living water—you made for yourselves cisterns that leak.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Centuries later Paul said, “There is no single thing that you have not received.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Koran states, “All things are from God.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought believes that all things are from humankind, and that humankind can actually improve upon nature and all that God has created. It does not have the concept of matters spiritual, of matters unseen, or the purpose and nature of human existence. It creates for itself false gods and bows down before them and shudders at their pronouncements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This material world that Western thought has created is now in a state of collapse. The economy is damaged beyond repair. The priesthood will soon be seen for what it is—an impotent hierarchy incapable of understanding the divine nature of existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this bodes well for humankind. As the material powers collapse there will be a return to spiritual values and an understanding of the nature of existence People will begin to realize their individual responsibility, obligation, and consideration for the betterment of the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be a realization that the proper understanding and application of gender known as patriarchy is essential to the operation of the family, which will once again become the center from which all values emanate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not be saddened my brothers and sisters, my sons and daughters; you are at the threshold of great change and human growth. You have the good fortune of not only seeing tremendous history being made, but of also becoming one of the actors in it. The decade ahead will usher in tremendous change. Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for the ride.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2563760596765621418?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2563760596765621418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2563760596765621418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/07/shuddering-before-god-of-materialism.html' title='SHUDDERING BEFORE THE GOD OF MATERIALISM'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-6774715465666562675</id><published>2011-05-31T15:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-31T15:16:32.899-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE Part 5</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Escape from the Madness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The last four essays described the feminine nature of Western thought. It illustrated that all knowledge came from outside of itself and that its lack of spirituality caused the natural feminine industriousness to focus on the manufacture and accumulation of matters material, which manifests as money and the goods and services that it can buy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The feminine principle is adaptable, accommodating, responsive, and passive. Without a male to provide the proper environment to support her nurturing activities she will degenerate and cease to exist. The Taoists teach that without the Yang (the masculine principle) the Yin (the feminine principle) will disappear. This is a universal truism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The absence, inhibition, and misdirection of the masculine influence negatively affects the behavior of animals, humans, and nations. Every species of animal life has dominant males that lead the herd flock, pride, school, troop, gam, or bevy. Without the males the groups deteriorate. The abusive and suffocating environments of laying hens, broiling chickens, and animals raised for meat could not have come about if the males of each species were available to defend them. Only by eliminating or neutering the masculine influence can the various animal species be exploited and put to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among humans when a woman does not receive masculine direction and protection she too is exploited. Like the laying hens, she has been removed from her natural environment of bringing life into this world and nurturing it, and has been thrust into a restrictive environment where she is measured by her productivity; a situation that results in mental and physical suffering. She has been propagandized into believing that her condition reflects, liberation, freedom and independence; therefore, she endures the aberration of natural behavior willingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from economic exploitation, when a woman does not receive masculine direction her natural responsive, adaptable, and accommodating nature will make her vulnerable to negative influences around her. She will adapt to and accommodate those influences and become excessively involved in them for her nature is to do things in extremis. Her language becomes coarse, her behavior immoral, and her demeanor disrespectful. This behavior takes a toll on her thinking because she instinctively desires to mate for life for the purpose of propagating and preserving the species; the licentious lifestyle that she has fallen into leaves her wanting. She does not have stability and security in her private life. Finally her body deteriorates physically from stress and the damages of living an un-natural lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a woman does not function effectively society suffers from a lack of nurturing; a condition prevalent in the entire Western and Westernized world and which will be addressed in a separate essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same fate that befalls a woman without a competent masculine presence befalls society when it does not have a competent masculine influence. People are removed from their homes and thrust into restrictive industrial environments where they are measured by how much they can produce. They either comply with this arrangement or they don’t eat, since financial interests now own everything that God gave to this world. Like the women who have been propagandized to believe their condition reflects, liberation, freedom and independence, the workers of the Western world believe they are independent and live in a free society. They are so conditioned to the restrictive environment of Western productivity that they beg for jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An absence of ethics leads to a decrease of morals resulting in debauchery and decadence. Disrespect increases between people, and selfishness prevails as financial gain and self-indulgence are promoted. Corruption reigns at all levels of government, business, and society. Loyalty between husband and wife, employer and employee, and government and its citizens decreases. Mental health deteriorates, crime increases, and the physical well being of society declines. Escape from the consequences of the lack of a competent masculine presence is not possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The European continent and the Western world suffer from the lack of a competent masculine influence. Every facet of societal well-being is declining. Nations face bankruptcy, mental illness has become a major health issue throughout the Western world, and divorce and adultery continue to increase while marriage decreases. The family has been destroyed and an international angst has developed. The prison population continues to increase and in the United States it has continued to set record proportions for the last 40 years. The educational system continually produces graduates with high grades and low performance scores. On the international level Western nations are in an almost continuous state of armed conflict.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the preceding essays we saw that all knowledge came from outside of Western thought. To compensate for its lack of masculine talent within, Western society had to continually exploit not only the resources of the world but the human talent as well. What it did not and has not recognized is that this talent contained the masculine influence that was sorely needed by Western society. The cultural mores and traditions brought to the West by immigrant groups were a result of masculine understanding, leadership and direction. These traditions helped to maintain order in society and also provide the initiative for business ventures. Immigrants own a disproportionate number of shops and small businesses throughout the Western world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually all immigrant groups lose their cultures and become Westernized and their positive impact fades away. Additionally Western society has conducted a vehement anti-gender campaign through the political, legal, and educational system, thus snuffing out any traces of masculine influence in society. Since most of the world is now Westernized there are few places to go to supplement the decreased vitality of the Western world. Without the vitality and knowledge of the assertive masculine influence society deteriorates and collapses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The condition of the Western world has fallen to a level beyond repair. It is not worthy of repair. It is built upon a weak foundation—upon a false premise. Its gross materialism lacks any sense of human purpose. Self-destruction has begun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What then can people do? They can learn to live outside the system and associate with like-minded people who recognize the importance of family and the patriarchal structure necessary to maintain it. These people will establish societal mores for marriage, community and interpersonal relationships. They will share with each other. They will have a spiritual understanding that will be reflected in worship in a manner of their own choosing. Most of the world lived that way until the advent of Western influence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is with an understanding of the way of life just described that Men’s Action developed a mission statement that calls for fostering a more natural way of life for humankind. I ask that you review this statement and if you are in accord with it to then become involved with Men’s Action and share in the opportunity to live a more natural way of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have two options and one choice. Either accept things as they are and go down with a sinking ship, or make preparations to live differently now and survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have made the latter choice then contact me and I will provide you with a multiplicity of activities that will enable you to share in bringing about change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-6774715465666562675?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/6774715465666562675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/6774715465666562675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/gender-history-of-europe-part-5.html' title='A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE Part 5'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-7360293415736187816</id><published>2011-05-27T13:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T15:20:04.107-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE Part 4</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Productive Ability&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The feminine principle does the productive work of the universe, and Europe having a feminine psyche naturally tends to industriousness and productivity. The man-made world derives primarily from European and Western productive ability. Airplanes, railroads, automobiles, ships, high-rise buildings and the myriad of technological inventions necessary to make them possible evince Western productivity. Computers, cell phones, and all the various electronic communications products that every consumer seems to own result from high productivity factories. Just about every product that a person touches derives from Western created productive procedures regardless of the country of its origin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Europe does not have the understanding that the purpose of human existence is to propagate and preserve the species while on its spiritual journey. Instead of men providing the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it, the assertive masculine principle focuses on the manufacture and accumulation of things material. This focus does not give women much of an incentive to fulfill their natural inclination to nurture the race. As productivity grows the desire for material accumulation increases and becomes the motivating factor for European activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Production provides the means of attaining the Western goal of accumulating material assets and the power that is believed to derive there from; therefore, productivity has become the measuring stick of Western society. It has become a fetish. More that a fetish it has become a disease that has infected the Western world and all who emulate it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The words Gross Domestic Product (GDP) describe the productive ability of nations and have become the measure of the their well-being. Every news magazine, business and financial section of a newspaper, and political commentary in all media refer to GDP. Universities teach the importance of GDP and all facets of society are motivated to do their share to increase GDP. Factors such as environmental pollution, physical and mental health, and marriage and divorce rates elicit little attention when compared to the fanatic concern with production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Productivity has become an entity requiring worship, dedication, and supplication. For a person to indicate that he doesn’t care about increased productivity borders on blasphemy and garners looks of incredulity. U. S. Treasury Secretary Geitner stated that the nation must produce its way out of the recession. The Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates so that money will become available to business so that it can increase production. World governments have collaborated to lower interest rates so that the world economy will revive and that productivity will once again increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A continuous effort to reduce costs accompanies the intense pressure of increasing production. The business mantra calls for producing more and more for less and less. In the process of producing more for less, jobs are eliminated through standardization, automation, and robotization. The elimination of jobs causes the need to produce more product so that more jobs will be created. A portion of these new jobs will eventually be eliminated through efficiency thus causing the need to produce more so that people can be hired again. This procedure has produced a self-perpetuating madness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People have been reduced to automaton production workers measured by their product output per unit of time. The disturbing of the natural gender balance always causes a dehumanization of some sort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same fate only to a greater extreme has befallen animals as they have been drawn into the high productivity culture. The abusive and suffocating environments of laying hens, broiling chickens, and animals raised for meat is inhumane to the extreme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As stated earlier Western thought focuses on the manufacture and accumulation of things material, which means ownership. Western thought desires to own the material world and has become extraordinarily successful in achieving that goal. It was primarily through commerce that the Western world laid claim to an unprecedented accumulation of material.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The primary vehicle of commerce consisted of trading until the time that European exploration of the world began. Products of one area of the world were exchanged for products of another area of the world. Commerce consisted primarily of trade, and trade consisted primarily of barter. Money served as a sophisticated vehicle to improve the efficiency of bartering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Europeans entered the age of oceanic exploration of the world they decided that it was more profitable to take than to trade. They took what they wanted from the Americas, the Polynesians, Africa, and the Middle East. The trading done with the Far East was mostly on an exploitive basis. The taking of the land from the indigenous peoples of the world was not the key issue in European economic thinking; it was owning it that set the stage for the enslavement of humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The colonists in North America did not immediately seize the land from the Indians but they made early attempts to own it. Every grade school child in America learns that the Dutch bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for $24 worth of trinkets. The Indians couldn’t understand why the white man would pay for something that God gave to people for free. Centuries later chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee said, “No tribe has the right to sell even to each other much less to strangers. Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world is now owned. People must pay to live and walk on the land, for its water, and for its food. There are air rights and ocean rights. Man must now pay to survive. He must pay those who own the land—the financial interests of the world. These financial interests are greater than governments—they own and direct governments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As world financial markets rise, the cost of land also rises. People then have to work harder and longer to earn sufficient revenue to live on the land and to obtain food and water from it. Productivity and the technology used to increase it merely serve as vehicles for the gradual enslavement of the world to those who own it—international finance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People have become frantic and suffer from angst as they realize that they must work longer and harder for less and less in an increasingly inhumane society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next essay will focus on a course of action for those who want to escape from the madness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;E.G.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-7360293415736187816?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7360293415736187816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7360293415736187816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/gender-history-of-europe.html' title='A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE Part 4'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8059937103580708479</id><published>2011-05-24T17:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-24T17:09:22.273-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE PART 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The European Source of Knowledge &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as all spirituality came from outside of Europe, all knowledge came from outside of itself as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arabic numbers, Euclidian geometry, Pythagorean theorems and the entire mathematical and geometric knowledge used by Europe came from Asia and/or Africa. Pythagoras introduced to Europe the symbol for the Greek letter Pi for the value of the diameter of a circle divided into its perimeter. The altitude of the pyramid in Giza divided into its base is exactly Pi. Pythagoras spent 20 years in the East and returned to Europe and introduced the knowledge that he had acquired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Greeks served as the conduit between the Afro-Asian masculine thinking and the European feminine thinking. The early Greek scholars from the sixth century BC and earlier such as: Thales, Anaximander, Anaxamenes, Anaxagoras, and Pythagoras, dealt with abstractions and concepts. Topics they addressed were the origin of all things, God is in all things, and mind controls matter. Pythagoras, whom we credit with the formula for determining the length of the sides of a right triangle, was a mystic. He introduced to Europe the knowledge of numerology which be obtained from the Chaldeans, and established a mystery school in Crotona, Italy. These men exhibited abstract masculine thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greeks, whom we credit with conceptual thinking such as Ptolemy, Euclid, and Epicures, were all students of Afro-Asian learning. Euclid and Ptolomy had their headquarters in Alexandria, and Epicures’ mentor Democritus (who taught him the atomic theory), traveled extensively in the East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Athenian Greeks were more mundane. Aristotle started the scientific approach of gathering materials, classifying and grading them. Archimedes is credited with two famous statements: the first “Eureka” when he discovered that a floating body displaces its weight in water, and the second “give me a fulcrum and a place to stand and I will lift the world,” when he discovered the principle for the operation of levers. By the time of Hero who in the first century invented the steam engine, conceptual masculine thought had decreased significantly among the Greeks as their thinking became increasingly Europeanized and materially oriented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of the principles necessary for the development of the industrial revolution came from the knowledge that the early Greeks brought to Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the industrial revolution enabled Europe to spread its mark upon the world, a prior event caused the initial imprint. This event was the development of oceanic navigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn’t it strange that at the end of the 15th century the Europeans suddenly had access to the navigational information necessary to circumvent the globe and chart it? Isn’t it even stranger that Portugal and Spain led this exploration rather than say the United Kingdom—a nation surrounded entirely by water?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These events are only strange if we rely on European history books in which knowledge of the eight-century stay in the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors was expunged. For those who were able to learn that the Moors had built a society that housed great centers of learning and whose ships plied the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean it does not come as a surprise that Portuguese and Spanish ships began their world exploration as Europe expelled the last remnants of Moors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It becomes less strange when we learn that Columbus’ navigator was a Moor. And when we further learn that as Columbus’ ship passed Cuba he noticed a Mosque on a mountainside, it should serve as proof positive that the Moors knew navigation of the oceans long before the Europeans. Like all knowledge used by the Europeans, oceanic navigation was brought to it from the outside. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lack of understanding of things unseen by European thought transcends the spiritual and the mechanical and applies to nature as well. It looks upon the earth as a huge finite commodity to be exploited and has no concept that behind everything seen something unseen motivates it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ignorance of how nature works has led to the belief that it can be altered and/or improved upon without negative consequences. The pollution of the water of the world—whether rivers, lakes, or oceans—, the air of the world, and the land of the world continues unabated with little thought as to the consequences on all life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought believes that nature must be tamed and then improved upon. By creating dams, levees, and sea walls it has altered nature. Western thought believes that it can make a better apple than God, a belief that provides the thinking for genetic engineering. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It believes that it can cure illness. It does not know that there is nothing to cure, that disease has a causative factor, that people are healed when the causative factor is removed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought has made a God of materialism and its extension—technology. It believes that through technology all things can be made better and all problems resolved. It does not understand that technology represents a sophisticated extension of materialism responsible for an increasing number of the ills facing mankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought’s ability to produce material things will be discussed in depth in the next essay, the point being made here is that whatever knowledge of the environment, nature, flora and fauna, and the workings of the physical world that Europe has came from outside of itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the practice of bathing came from outside of Europe. Mediaeval Christians considered bathing to be a heathen custom and they took pride in themselves that they never bathed. The Moors introduced public baths to Europe and were condemned for it. As late as the 17th century Europeans still did not bathe. Henry the VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I never bathed. Public baths existed in Japan and the Middle East. The indigenous people of the Americas bathed, only the Europeans didn’t until it was introduced to them from the outside and then only accepted after much resistance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought continually produces theories. It has theories about everything. Theories come from those who do not know. If they did know they wouldn’t create a theory. Western thought in its focus on matters material—especially money—has conjured up a host of economic theories. Some of the more known economic theorists are Malthus, Veblen, Smith, Marx, Friedman, and Keynes. These economic theorists believe that the proper relationship of money and goods will resolve the issues of humankind. None of them realize that the more focused society becomes on money, the worse the health of society becomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western society continually searches for the truth but never finds it. Its philosophers, economists, sociologists, psychiatrists, nutritionists, and environmentalists all have theories. They don’t have the truth because they look for it in the wrong place. They look for it on the outside—in the material realm. The truth is contained on the inside—in the spiritual realm. Something spiritual resides behind every material thing. Europe, having a feminine psyche has no awareness of this truth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To this day Western thought thirsts for knowledge from outside of itself. The United States with 300 million people and some of the best universities of the world continually tampers with immigration laws because it “needs” the talent necessary to maintain its edge in the high-tech era. Europe has a similar population and also a history of great universities; still it too seeks talent from outside of itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The West is really searching for the input of masculine assertiveness, vitality, and the conceptual thinking behind it, but does not realize it. All knowledge originates from the masculine principle—it cannot be otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next essay will describe the extraordinary productive capacity of feminine Western thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8059937103580708479?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8059937103580708479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8059937103580708479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/gender-history-of-europe-part-3.html' title='A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE PART 3'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-1295528596551362126</id><published>2011-05-20T17:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-20T18:04:43.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;European Spirituality and Religiosity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Every human society evidences a tradition of worship. Mankind built temples as instruments of its worship wherever the tools and materials available enabled it to do so. These temples can be seen in Egypt, Central America, the Andes, on Pacific islands and throughout most of the world. Even where tools and materials were insufficient to enable the erection of durable temples, societies still incorporated rituals of worship into their social mores and practices. Tribal cultures throughout the world include worship to a greater entity in their singing and dancing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A look at the European continent will reveal that from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains temples of European origin cannot be found. The Acropolis did not come from within Europe; it was brought into Europe through the Peloponnesians from the East. Stonehenge did not come out of Europe nor did the structure at Newgrange. Knowledge of how to build these edifices did not exist in Europe at that time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prophets, gurus, sat gurus, and shamans traveled the world since mankinds beginnings teaching the populace about matters spiritual and how to live a better life. The Buddha, Lao Tsu, Mohammed, Jesus, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Quetzalcoatl, Hermes, Nanek, and Rumi are but a few of the enlightened teachers that came to motivate mankind out of its ignorance and into spiritual knowledge. A history of prophets exists in the Americas and in Africa as well, even though Western authority has largely expunged this knowledge. Europe stands alone as a continent that does not have a history of prophets and spiritual teachers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor does it have any history of spiritual texts originating from within the continent such as the Bible, Koran, Bhagavad-Gita, Tao, or the Dhammapada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Europeans, like people all over the world, have an innate desire to worship; however, they are unable to find a spiritual source of worship from within. The early European worship of Mithras was an entity introduced from the East. The Druidic influence came from the shores of Ireland and how they got there remains a mystery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local practices of worship existed throughout Europe; however, Europe had no spiritual source. It had local superstitions and practices but no spiritual teachings or text that could long support a religion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why did Europe have to go outside of itself to obtain spiritual truth?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Europe represents the feminine principle, which is the receptive entity of the universe; all knowledge comes from outside of itself. Religion is feminine. It requires a source upon which to base its behavior. It requires an authority to tell it what to do. Authority in the Western world comes from government and/or religion. The nature of the European psyche is to make of its religion a government and of its government a religion. It does this because it lacks spiritual understanding; its thinking is grossly materialistic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religion is not an entity unto itself but is a belief system that relies upon a spiritual foundations or other authority. The masculine principle deals with the unseen and the feminine principle deals with the seen. The European psyche does not have an understanding of gender or the unseen; therefore, it focuses on what it sees—the material world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing spiritual ever came out of Europe. From the time of the earliest Greeks, Europe rejected spirituality. Anaxagoras was accused of impiety, Socrates was accused of corrupting Athenian youth, and a host of other Greeks were persecuted for the Afro-Asian spirituality they introduced to Europe. Even in latter times the Druids were called snakes and exterminated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only was Europe devoid of spiritual understanding from the earliest times, but also to this day it serves as the center for atheist thought. Whether Marx’s statement that religion is the opium of the people to the activities of the Fourth International Conference of Women held in Beijing in 1995, the joint objective of Western thought is to eliminate spirituality and gender from government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three centuries after the birth of Jesus, Emperor Constantine took the Bible and removed the parts he didn’t like or understand and converted this great spiritual training manual into a rulebook. He mixed the teachings in it with those of a few other religions and created a potpourri of a liturgy, which the government enforced. This religion evolved into the Roman Catholic Church and fulfilled the European need for an authority to tell it how to live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This European need to be told what to do has not changed; only the vehicle that fulfills that need serves as the source of debate. The issue that has divided the Western world politically and religiously from its very inception to the present day is not whether there should be an authority, but rather the nature of that authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has never been nor is there now a Western understanding of the unseen. The whole premise of Western values is based on materialism. Consequentially there can be no understanding of right living. In order to maintain order and an attempt at responsible conduct it focuses on legal and illegal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A society that has no spiritual basis, that relies on materialism, and that does not practice some form of tribalism, will have not have a structure to provide it with cohesion. In its effort to substitute for the lack of the masculine influence, the European culture relies upon the law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the earliest European Greeks there existed a great dependency on the law. Draco instituted a system of law based on an aristocracy (the feminine form of government.) Solon developed a system of law in which eligibility for political power was based on wealth (a feminine value.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Draco, to Solon, to Justinian, to Napoleon, the Europeans prided themselves on their legal institutions. After a 2,000-year history based on law, when the Europeans came to America the Indians said of them, “white man speak with forked tongue.” Indeed he did, for the law is but a poor substitute for the masculine influence. The manly way is “let your yea be yea, and let your nay be nay.” The law is for those who can’t live by that code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A code of behavior other than the law derives from ethics, which come from those men who realize their purpose is to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it as humankind proceeds on its spiritual journey. The indigenous people of America and most of the world had these ethics, because they had a balance of the masculine and feminine genders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Europe represents the forlorn woman who for all of her existence has waited for a suitable mate. Instead of the natural male authority that she craves she has received a variety of substitute authorities in the form of government, religion, philosophy, education, and finance; none of which has provided the stable spiritually oriented environment necessary for her natural nurturing ability to flourish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next essay will focus on Europe’s source of knowledge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-1295528596551362126?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1295528596551362126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1295528596551362126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/gender-history-of-europe-part-2.html' title='A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE Part 2'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-332686518582198835</id><published>2011-05-18T13:10:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-18T13:16:45.276-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE  Part 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;Part 1 The Creation and Gender&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The following essay is the first of a five part series that addresses the history of Europe on the basis of gender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These essays do not purport to show whether the inhabitants of one continent are better or worse than inhabitants of another, inasmuch as people on all continents belong to the one family of God. These essays will however, explain the nature of European thought and by its extension Western thought and its effect on Western culture, which now dominates the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought exhibits an almost total lack of understanding of the workings of gender and the universal purpose of human existence. This lack of understanding or ignorance does not derive from willfulness, but rather from a natural position of not knowing; ignorance pervades all human activity. The purpose of human existence is to expand its knowledge of matters spiritual and gradually lessen its ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, when ignorance becomes empowered it then develops into suppression followed by oppression. Western ignorance of gender has caused its society to develop in an extremely unbalanced direction, which it has willfully imposed upon all that it has come in contact with. This imposition of its ignorance has created a great evil; it is the evil that Jesus referred to when upon the cross he uttered the words “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evil becomes oppressive, but as its power expands it begins to degenerate from within and then ultimately collapses and disappears. Western thinking covers the world and has entered a state of internal degeneration that will lead to its total collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought and the world society that it produced cannot be fixed. Anything built upon a false premise cannot be repaired. It will come down of its own accord, thus paving the way for something more enlightened. Western society has arrived at that point and these five essays will attempt to show why this has happened and how to survive its demise. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These essays will be posted one at a time on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Your response is welcomed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Part One: The one creation and gender&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The Bible states that God created Eve from Adam’s Rib. Most people have an awareness of this Biblical story but they give it little credence, especially if they view it from the perspective of Western materialistic thought. In today’s era of sexual equality the concept of the woman coming from the man does not garner much support, especially since it can be readily seen that all humans and mammals are born from the womb of a female. Why then does this great spiritual text make such a bold declaration within its first few pages?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First we have to consider the fundamental operation of the universe. There can only be one assertive force in any area of activity. As explained in depth in my book A Gender Handbook for Western Man, activities such as hot and cold, sound and quiet, light and dark, have three not six assertive influences. These influences are hot, sound and light. If there were two assertive influences in each of these three areas it would be impossible to set a temperature, level of sound or degree of light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is only one assertive motivating force in the universe, which is referred to as unseen, positive, and masculine. The universe could not function if there were two motivating forces. Eve came from Adam because there was no place else to come from. Adam represented the assertive influence of the universe from which all things come. All.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam said, “Bone from my bones, flesh from my flesh—this shall be called woman, for from man was this taken.” All existence comes from the same source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similar knowledge comes from the Koran, which states, “It was He who created you from a single being. From that being he created his mate.” The entire universe comes from the one “something.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon the creation of the physical universe gender came into existence. Without gender there would be no movement. Gender provides the assertive influence that initiates activity and the receptive entity that provides the activity. As long as the physical universe exists all life within it will depend upon gender for its operation and survival. This indicates duality, the positive and the negative, the assertive and the receptive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All life having come from the one substance indicates oneness and not duality. The duality of function forms the oneness of existence. The Sun provides the environment and the means for the earth to bring forth life and nurture it. This duality between the Sun and the earth forms the oneness of the solar system. The duality between a man and a woman forms the oneness of the family. Through spiritual growth comes the subjective realization that we are all part of the one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we look into the night sky we see it aglow with the light of burning suns. Planets do not float independently through the universe; they orbit about a specific sun. All planets were spun off from the gases of a sun. They came from the sun because there was no place else to come form. There is only one source of everything. The Godhead created the physical universe. The physical universe then evolved into the universe that we now see. It continually changes but always within the divine plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we move on to subsequent essays let us remember that there is but one creation and gender makes it work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next essay will address European spirituality and religion.&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-332686518582198835?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/332686518582198835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/332686518582198835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/05/gender-history-of-europe-part-1.html' title='A GENDER HISTORY OF EUROPE  Part 1'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-9170983203751630600</id><published>2011-03-14T05:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-14T05:32:27.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE TRUTH ABOUT TECHNOLOGY</title><content type='html'>We live in the Age of Technology; a description uttered with respect if not with awe, for it supposedly represents the most advanced thinking of humankind. A belief exists that technology will eventually solve all the ills of society and therefore societal rectitude requires the support of technological development. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To decry technology in present day society is considered to be an expression of ignorance if not outright blasphemy. To deny the existence of God represents free thought, but to not recognize the infinite benefits of technology expresses gross ignorance if not mental derangement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recognizing the prevailing thinking I will nevertheless state that technology is a sophisticated extension of gross materialism. It represents the ultimate ignorance of the unseen and focuses entirely upon what is seen. It indicates a lack of awareness of spirit and the purpose of human existence. Technology funded by large financial institutions has become empowered ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology caused the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and the collapse of the levees during hurricane Katrina. Gross materialism through its highly financed extension called technology runs and ruins our lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology has caused smog in our cities, pollution and acid rain on our food, pollution of our drinking water, pollution of our bodies from medicinal drugs. Listening to and using the communicative products of high technology produces hearing impairment in our youth and malfunctioning of their minds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problems with the nuclear power plants in earthquake torn Japan result from technology, as does the suffering of those trapped in Japanese high-speed trains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably the single major detriment to society caused by technology is in the work place and the lifestyle necessary to accommodate it such as commuting, routine and boring work, or pay dependent upon continually increasing performance goals. Jobs are not natural; work is. The normal work of men since the beginning of time centered on providing the environment and means for women to nurture the race. Nurturing the race has little priority in a materialistic society; self-indulgence and material accumulation are its priorities, which in most cases require having a job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The negative effect on society of jobs is so great that the American government has a cabinet position to address labor problems, and has established the Occupation Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to deal with job related health issues. Occupational therapy is a major industry in America with about 30,000 locations generating 20 billion dollars in annual revenue. Job related litigation totals in the billions of dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cost of jobs is high to the individual not only in dollars but to the physical and mental damage done. Technology focuses on efficient production reducing people to work units. Jobs become standardized routines that eventually become robotized. In the process people become dehumanized then eliminated. This dehumanization creates stress that affects increasing numbers of high technology society members. The sale of tranquilizers, painkillers, and anti depressants has developed into a trillion dollar industry.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology does not cure, eliminate or eradicate issues; it creates them. It makes an omnipotent and omniscient God of matter that engulfs and destroys lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technocrats look upon nature as something to be tamed, used and abused instead of something to be respected and cared for. A society that abuses mother earth also abuses its women by taking them out of the security of home and dumping them into the dehumanized workforce. Children are removed from the nurturing love of mothers and stable home environments and given to the state to raise where they will be developed into future drones of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology has not cured anything in the medical field. It has not eliminated any diseases but has caused many.  Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases did not exist before the onset of high technology. Nor did diabetes and cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mutation of animals in the interests of scientific, medical and consumer research further evidences the abuse of nature and the insensitiveness to all life by gross materialistic pursuits in the interest of science and its practical application called technological development. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything that technology develops ultimately becomes a weapon. Everything! This occurs on the overt level and the covert level. Automobiles become tanks, planes become bombers, and atomic power becomes a means of annihilation. High tech communications become vehicles of propaganda and medical research provides the potential for germ warfare.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a covert level, high tech cameras cover an increasing amount of human activity keeping larger members of the population under surveillance. Credit cards, toll cards, and phone records track an increasing amount of human activity. Personal lives have become an open book to those who have access to high technology. This knowledge by others about the every movement of people becomes a weapon that can and is used against society.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Educational systems focus on training and orienting youth in matters material with emphasis on the works of man, which increasingly depends on advances in technology. Students do not receive training in thinking, for the very nature of technology reduces activity to its smallest component so that it can be robotized. The feminine characteristics of reaction, responsiveness and recitation predominate in the educational system as it prepares our youth to obey and follow rather than to think, lead and create.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The student body of American universities consists of 38% males and 62% females, with male enrollment on a continuous decline. Real men do not stay in higher education. Colleges have become vagina vocational centers. The time has arrived for all men to leave the college system, reassess their purpose in life, rescue their sisters from their unnatural lifestyle, and start building a new society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is nothing that technology has produced that man was not able to do before its development. Technological communication is as nothing compared to the natural telepathy that exists among people who live close to the earth. American forests and African jungles are not filled with the bodies of lost tribesmen. People were located by and communicated with telepathic abilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The health of society has deteriorated under technology and flourished before it. Shamans, bush ladies, medicine men, and a variety of healers kept all races healthy throughout the world. Jesus and his disciples did a fine job of healing without technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world of technology is crumbling all around us and at an accelerating rate. God in the blinking of an eye can destroy what it took men millennia to build. The recent Japanese earthquake serves as an example. It took only seconds to occur but resulted in tremendous devastation to the most advanced technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The international flooding that occurred in 2010 was probably the greatest seen since the days of Noah; it washed away technological structures on every continent. The infrastructure of the world is crumbling from decay, and that which isn’t is being blown apart by the war-based economies of materialism.        &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Long after the earth swallows the last edifices of technology, the Sun will still shine, the Moon will still reflect its light, and Mother Earth will still nurture us with her tremendous abundance. Humans will devote themselves to their propagation and preservation by living in harmony with the natural patriarchal structure of the universe as they move forward on their spiritual journey. All else passes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-9170983203751630600?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9170983203751630600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9170983203751630600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/03/truth-about-technology.html' title='THE TRUTH ABOUT TECHNOLOGY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3189554982304969907</id><published>2011-03-09T07:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T11:20:42.190-08:00</updated><title type='text'>UPHEAVAL IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:</title><content type='html'>UPHEAVAL IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:&lt;br /&gt;THE FINAL STAGE TO INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The political instability and social unrest occurring in the nations of what we term the Muslim world represents the final stages leading to the establishment of a one-world government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am loath to use the term Muslim world, for these nations really represent the last vestiges of the masculine influence of the Asian continent regardless of their religious or ethnic makeup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I addressed this matter in an essay titled “Why We Will Stay in the Middle East,” which appeared in an October 2004 edition of the now defunct Muslims Weekly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wrote the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;No matter who becomes our next president or which party controls congress we will not reduce our presence in Iraq or Afghanistan until we meet two major conditions. The first condition calls for the breaking down of the familial, tribal, cultural, and religious structure of that area; the major impediment to the establishment of a one world socialistic government is patriarchy and the last bastion of patriarchy exists in the Middle East. The second condition calls for the restoration of the Iraqi oil industry with the establishment of the United States as its biggest customer. We will fight to our last resource to see the attainment of these objectives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With reference to the first condition, the two major objectives of the Fourth International Conference of Women held in Beijing in 1995 were to remove all references to gender and all references to God from society. The only factor that kept that conference from being a complete route of familial and religious values was the presence of Islamic women, who said they were pleased to be wives, mothers, and worshippers of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly after this conference American intervention in the cultural life of Islamic nations increased. Mavis Leno, wife of late night host Jay Leno, became Chairperson of the Feminist Majority’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. Publicity was given to Muslim writers such as Khalid Duran, whose writings attacked the very foundation of Islam. The United States set up a puppet government in Afghanistan that requires 20% of the governing body to be women. You can be sure a similar quota will be set up in Baghdad. Democracy is the vehicle used to take away man’s natural authority and put it in the hands of a paganistic state. Once patriarchy is destroyed, and gender differences eliminated, family will disappear, religion will become an empty ritual, and a strong socialist government will takeover (as we have here) as part of the overall plan to have a socialist one-world government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Proponents of one-world government must be joyous to see the realization of their dreams lying close at hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only countries that have not yet succumbed to Western values are now being motivated and/or pressured into adopting democracy; the last form of government (according to Plato) before the establishment of complete tyranny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entire Asian mainland with the exception of some of the Muslim nations has now been converted to governments of complete Western materialism. They have become communistic or capitalistic economically, but socialistic governmentally. China and North Korea practice communism; Japan, South Korea, and Singapore practice capitalism. All of them have removed male authority, which has resulted in the breakdown of family, the disappearance of ethics, and the abandonment of matters spiritual. These conditions lead to socialistic rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India has made a dramatic move towards Western values and now has the distinction of being the diabetic center of the world with 40 million people now suffering from a malady caused by the Western diet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The social unrest in Iran fueled by its access to Western values on the internet has influenced this relatively young population to increase its consumption of drugs and engage in prostitution, with the resultant rapid increase of venereal disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six months after the arrival of U.S. forces in Iraq prostitution was established in Baghdad. The new parliament requires that 40% of its members be women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The handful of Middle Eastern nations not yet Westernized will all fall into the Western orbit during this decade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This does not mean to infer that the Muslims and other religious groups in these nations are being forced into Westernization; on the contrary they are at the trough ready and anxious to feed on Western values. Morocco and Tunisia no longer have a fertility rate necessary to sustain the population. One of the major communicators of the Egyptian uprising was an unwed mother and cigarette smoking Muslima. The Minister of Justice in France is an unwed mother Muslima. In the United States Muslims in increasing numbers appear in family court, get divorced, and have their children put into after school programs and/or foster care. Muslim parents in Western nations now push their children to get an education and succeed financially rather than train and motivate them to get married and create families.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the final removal of all vestiges of male authority all nations will establish socialistic governments that will link with each other and move closer to one-world government and tyranny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only course to be traveled in the absence of the masculine influence is one of materialism and all the decadence that derives there from. The Bible states “do not fall in love with the works of thine own hands,” an activity that consumes Western thought. The Koran states “do not with thine own hands cast yourselves into destruction,” a further activity of materialism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Western penchant for the enactment of laws results in an ineffective substitute for ethics. Only men make ethics, and more particularly those men who realize that the purpose of human activity is the propagation and preservation of the species while on its spiritual journey. Without ethics society disintegrates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the above one might assume a forecast of gloom and doom. On the contrary it represents a path to enlightenment. The universe operates in perfect order. Whatever is in harmony with it survives; what isn’t doesn’t. We are now witnessing the demise of what is out of harmony with the universe, which will make room for the growth of what is in harmony with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A growing minority of people has developed sensitivity to nature, to alternative healing, to the foods that God created, and to a more spiritual way of life. Once they come to the realization that nothing can be accomplished in the universe without the proper relationship of gender their understanding for the need of family and the patriarchal structure that sustains it will grow and their efforts will succeed. The collapse of the old materialistic and genderless order will provide ample room for the development of a new age of enlightenment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we approach a major shift in history—the self-demise of gross materialism and the growth of spiritual understanding—let us not be downcast over the events that are occurring. The Westernization of the remaining nations of this world necessitates a near term tyranny that will collapse and pave the way for long-term enlightenment. The spirit is always at work—keep the faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3189554982304969907?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3189554982304969907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3189554982304969907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/03/upheaval-in-muslim-world.html' title='UPHEAVAL IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4458814131332585061</id><published>2011-01-17T06:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-17T07:00:11.332-08:00</updated><title type='text'>TRAINING OF THE YOUNG</title><content type='html'>Today’s essay focuses on the training of the young and contains the last references to Native American culture.&lt;br /&gt;To give yourself a measuring stick for this essay I strongly recommend that you refer to my essay Cubists, which I have linked below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2007/06/cubists.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four American Indian views on the training of the young follow:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Something is wrong with the white man’s council. When the Micmac people used to have council, the old men would speak and tell the young men what to do—and the young men would listen and do what the old men told them to. The white men have changed that, too. Now young men speak and the old men listen. I believe the Micmac Council was far better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Paul &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Several of our young men were brought up in your colleges. They were instructed in your sciences; but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger. They didn’t know how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy. They spoke our language imperfectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were therefore unfit to be hunters, warriors, or counselors; they were good for nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the government of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care with their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canassatego&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We send our little Indian boys and girls to school, and when they come back talking English, they come back swearing. There are no swear words in the Indian languages, and I haven’t yet learned to swear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zitkala-Sa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;When the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses all tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires, where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what is to say farewell to the swift and the hunt, to the end of living and the beginning of survival? We might understand if we know what it was that the white man dreams, what he describes to his children on the long winter nights, what visions he burns into their minds, so that they will wish for tomorrow. But we are savages. The white man’s dreams are hidden from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Chief Seattle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To draw a comparison to these teachings I think back to when I lived in an upper scale neighborhood consisting primarily of business and professional people. The talk among men usually focused on the economy, what they were going to buy, where they would go on vacation, and on whether the Yankees would win the World Series. It annoyed me that discussions never left the shallowness of the material realm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reflecting on Chief Seattle’s inquiry, what do these men describe to their children on winter nights, what visions are burned into their minds that they will wish for tomorrow?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None and nothing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who live in cubes have no concept of sitting around the fire on a cold winter night. Cubes do not have cold winter nights or hot summer nights, or dry days or humid days, or dark nights or star-studded nights. The temperature and lighting of the cube is always the same. The only concern about the elements for cubists is how it affects their travel from cube to cube. The news channels burst into chatter with the advent of heavy rain, deep snow, heat waves, blustery winds, and frigid temperatures all to describe their affect on travel from cube to cube.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the Lakota Indians winds, snow, rain, sunshine, day, night, and change of seasons were endlessly fascinating. They provided some of the grist for the teachings of the elders on cold winter nights. The changing temperament of Mother Earth provided the basis for an understanding of the relationship of humans to the earth and the relationship of the earth to God.  The great American poet Walt Whitman said, “I think all great deeds were conceived of in the open air.” Living in a cube does not enable one to become cognizant of the open air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who live in cubes do not sit around in quietude—a necessary requirement for listening, contemplating, and understanding. The children (and adults as well) have multitudes of distractions such as texting, watching television, using computers, playing video games or making inane phone calls for hours. They no longer have the attention spans to sit in silence and absorb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What little advice father’s pass down focuses on going to school, getting an education, making money, and becoming somebody; hardly the stuff that makes for the development of men. The values held by Chief Canassatego of the Iroquois never made it into the Western mindset; men are not taught the ethics necessary to maintain the well-being of society. The behavior of their children reflects the lack of ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zitkala-Sa, an Indian mother lamented that children came back swearing after learning English, whereas in her language there were no swear words. People raised in the cube do not look upon swearing negatively; it is considered a manifestation of freedom of speech. The Constitution calls for the pursuit of happiness. If swearing makes a person feel good, then Western thought feels it should not be restricted. The negativity that swearing generates does not concern Western thought, for it has no race consciousness. It only has a self-consciousness. It strives to satisfy the ME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America has the distinction of having the most violent boys in the world; it also possesses most of the wealth of the world. Could moral behavior and material accumulation vary inversely? Does material accumulation affect the relationship of youth to their elders as Chief Peter Paul lamented on the change of who spoke and who listened at councils?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among those who live in the cube, the value of a person is determined by his contribution to productivity and the amassing of wealth. Productivity is governed by technology, which changes at an accelerating rate; fathers and elders have less and less to hand down to their children in the way of technological knowledge. What fathers and elders did to earn a living has become obsolete; therefore the value to society of the elders becomes marginalized. They are old people who tend to get put someplace and cared for by the state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A review of the four comments made by Native Americans in this essay indicates that they considered training of the young to include self-sufficiency, moral rectitude, respect for the elders, care of society, and spiritual unfoldment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That society had no prisons, little thievery, a high level of honor, good health, and a great deal of sharing. Mental illness, depression, and suicide were unheard of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A fundamental difference between the indigenous people of the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, as compared to those raised in Western thought, is that the former live in the world that God has made and the latter live in the world that man has made. When people leave the world that God has made they lose the natural connection with the Creator and all that He has bestowed upon humankind. A friend of mine runs a farm museum in Queens and he told be the children that arrive want to see the pumpkin tree and the cow that delivers chocolate milk. They have lost most of the awareness of the relationship of the food they eat and where it comes from, a condition that typifies Western society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Western schooled children progress into adulthood they become less cognizant of the world that God made and increasingly limited to the confines of what man has made. Life inside the cube is an aberration of natural living. As Chief Seattle foretold, we stopped living and started surviving. Western activity has become a battle of survival; the joy of living has passed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4458814131332585061?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4458814131332585061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4458814131332585061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/01/training-of-young.html' title='TRAINING OF THE YOUNG'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3560146020691639782</id><published>2011-01-07T17:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-07T17:53:21.726-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE WESTERN PENCHANT FOR OWNERSHIP</title><content type='html'>Today’s essay will continue offering examples of the understanding of the indigenous people of the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific concerning gender and spirituality. To give yourself a measuring stick for the next several essays I ask that you refer to my essay Cubists, which I have linked &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;HERE.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The emphasis of this essay focuses on American Indian opposition to ownership, especially ownership of land; a value structure opposite to that of Western and Asian thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below are American Indian views on ownership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some of our chiefs make the claim that the land belongs to us. It is not what the Great Spirit told me. He told me that the lands belong to Him, that no people owns the land; that I was not to forget to tell this to the white people when I meet them in council.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                               Kanekuk&lt;/em&gt;   Kickapoo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;No tribe has the right to sell even to each other much less to stranger. Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                              Tecumseh&lt;/em&gt;    Shawnee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is what was spoken by my great-grandfather at the house he made for us. These are the words that were given him by the Master of Life: “At some time there shall come among you a stranger, speaking a language that you do not understand. He will try to buy the land from you, but do not sell it.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                               Aseenewub&lt;/em&gt;  Red Lake Ojibwe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Look at me—I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                               Red Cloud&lt;/em&gt;  Sioux&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they get it back, with interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them, with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                              Maquinna&lt;/em&gt;    Nootka Chief  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;One does not sell the earth upon which people walk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                              Crazy Horse&lt;/em&gt;   Lakota            &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The white man’s desire for possessions is like a disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                              Sitting Bull&lt;/em&gt;   Sioux&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence and so long as they occupy and cultivate it they have the right to the soil, but if they voluntarily leave it then any other people have a right to settle on it. Nothing can be sold, except things that can be carried away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                               Black Hawk&lt;/em&gt;   Sauk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The greatest object of their (white people) lives seems to be to acquire possessions—to be rich. They desire to posses the whole world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;                                                                                              Santee Sioux&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That last statement sums up the activities of the Western world. Not only does it have a desire to possess the whole world—it already owns it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every American grade school child learns that early European settlers bought the island of Manhattan from the Indians for $24 worth of trinkets. The inference is made that the Indians had no concept of value in letting the island go so cheaply. The Indians on the other hand wondered why the settlers would want to buy something that could be utilized freely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;European thinking obviously prevailed, and eventually Brooklyn, Queens, and all the other boroughs were purchased; then the states of New York and New Jersey. Eventually the whole country was purchased. The land of other countries was purchased as well. Now international financial interests own the entire world. Tecumseh’s question, “Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth?” has become a reality. Do you know of any free access to drinking water? All of the land and potable water of the world is now owned. The territorial control of the waters of the oceans includes 12 mile zones to 200 mile zones. Gifts from God have been taken from us by Euro-Asian thought and we have become indentured servants working for the right to get our daily sustenance of food and drink from those who own the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To all who read this essay regardless of where in this world you stand; realize that you toil more and more each day because the price of the world continues to rise. Each time world financial markets rise it means the value of the land and water has increased and you must work more in order to survive. The financial interests of this world have become your God. You must serve them or you will not eat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have accepted this way of life and adapted to it well. The major concern of the world is money, the economy, finances and ownership. The social and spiritual well-being of people has become irrelevant and does not garner mention in the media. Our interests focus on material matters; all other matters occupy a distant second place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“What does it serve a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” The indigenous people of the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific understood the meaning of that message. They also understood the meaning of Paul’s message “There is no single gift that you have not received.” Too bad most of the Eurasian world can’t or won’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3560146020691639782?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3560146020691639782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3560146020691639782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2011/01/western-penchant-for-ownership.html' title='THE WESTERN PENCHANT FOR OWNERSHIP'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5989880786613172943</id><published>2010-12-31T16:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T16:30:32.896-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A NEW DIRECTION</title><content type='html'>Men’s Action will take a new direction. Part of the decision to alter course comes from the realization that in addition to my having written two books on gender this website has more than 100 of my essays, and more that six hours of streaming videos explaining and/or illustrating the principle of gender. If a person reads all the material that I have generated concerning gender, I doubt that adding a few more essays would alter his thinking on the subject. Therefore, this decision to move on with the knowledge at hand to expanded areas of understanding and application.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A shift in direction would not mean changing the message, but would instead alter its focus from an emphasis on the principle of gender to the practical application of this principle in our lives. Also, it would be beneficial to show the principle of gender in operation outside of the confines of Indo-European thought. By saying this I do not mean to denigrate in any way the positive spiritual teachings that have come from the East; however, peoples in Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific also had an understanding of gender, the need to respect mother earth and to worship God. I would like to touch on their social mores, traditions, and customs as part of an illustration of the universal understanding of gender and the respect that it develops for the earth and the power that created it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a person born in the United States I am particularly interested in the values, customs and mores that existed in this land before the arrival of the European. American education and media influence portrays the indigenous peoples of America—whom I shall refer to as Indians—as savages who attacked our wagon trains and in general tried to inhibit the natural progress of the Western world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This essay and perhaps others to follow will contain some of the teachings, beliefs, and practices of those who roamed this land before us. As a basis from which to judge this material I recommend that you review my &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;essay Cubists&lt;/a&gt;, which I have linked here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first selection is the words of George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh) of the Ojibwe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was born in Nature’s wild domain! The trees were all that sheltered my infant limbs, the blue heavens all that covered me. I am one of Nature’s children. I have always admired her. She shall be my glory: her features, her robes, and the wreath about her brow, the seasons, her stately oaks, and the evergreen—her hair, ringlets over the earth—all contribute to my enduring love of her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And wherever I see her, emotions of pleasure roll in my breast, and swell and burst like waves on the shores of the ocean, in prayer and praise to Him who has placed me in her hand. It is thought great to be born in places, surrounded with wealth—but to be born in Nature’s great domain is greater still!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would much more glory in this birthplace, with the broad canopy of heaven over me, and the giant arms of the forest trees for my shelter, than to be born in palaces of marble studded with pillars of gold! Nature will be Nature still, while palaces shall decay and fall in ruins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, Niagara will be Niagara a thousand years hence. The rainbow, a wreath over her brow, shall continue as long as the Sun and the flowing of the river—while the work of art, however carefully protected and preserved, shall fade and crumble into dust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The following is from Chief Santana of the Kiowa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I love the land of the buffalo and will not part with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want my children raised as I was; I don’t want them to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Lastly we find the words of Wovoka of the Paiute&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You ask me to dig for stones. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and to be rich like white men but how dare I cut my mother’s hair?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet again in the bosom of our mothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;These three selections show the love of the Indian for mother earth. They respect her and do not abuse her. Material accumulation is not a desire of theirs. They believe they live in an abundant world that has been given freely to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you enjoyed reading the above.  Subsequent essays will focus on the ethics and social etiquette of the American Indian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5989880786613172943?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5989880786613172943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5989880786613172943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-direction.html' title='A NEW DIRECTION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2166613371714586044</id><published>2010-12-21T04:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-21T04:25:07.094-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AN ERA DRAWING TO A CLOSE</title><content type='html'>The media reported the following news in a 48-hour period this past week concerning health, government, and natural disasters:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.A medical report indicated that the health of American women deteriorated on several fronts due to alcoholism, smoking, obesity, and stress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.France determined that 50% of its population is either overweight or obese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.Australia experienced severe flooding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.Civil disturbances took place in England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.Economic instability in Ireland reached a critical stage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.Elizabeth Edwards died of breast cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These events while reported in the news media no longer seem newsworthy in the sense of creating an “oh my” response among viewers and readers; they have become routine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the health report on American women, it indicated there are more cases of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, a rise in diabetes and high blood pressure, and an increase in binge drinking. The decling health of the American woman is only exceeded by the declining health of European women among whom the depression rate has reached 15%. Women all over the Western world have increased their alcohol consumption. Japanese women have quadrupled their alcohol consuption since the advent of the American occupation. Even though anti-smoking campaigns exist throughout the nation  18% of American women still indulge in that habit. There has been a tremendous rise in smoking by Asian women because more of them are entering the workforce, have disposable income and see smoking as “modern and liberated.” Remember the days when men prohibited their wives from drinking and smoking? Cyrrosis of the liver and lung cancer among women was rare at that time; so was depression. Venereal disease was a rarity among women except among prostitutes. Let’s remember the “modern and liberated” when we address Item 6.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding French obesity and the sickness resulting from it, the United States also has a severe obesity problem with 39.8 million adults suffering from that malady and more than 57% of American adults classified as overweight. Diabetes and weight gain have increased in India, which now has 40 million diabetics. More than one-third of African women and a quarter of African men are estimated to be overweight, and the World Health Organization predicts that will rise to 41 percent and 30 percent respectively in the next 10 years. Close to 15% of the world population is now obese, and these rates are climbing everywhere as the Western way of living and eating spreads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the flooding in Australia, every continent experienced severe flooding in 2010. North America had severe floods in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. In Europe severe flooding occurred in France, Romania, Serbia, Portugal, Poland and Hungary. Asia saw severe flooding in Singapore, China, and Indonesia. African countries Kenya, and Nigeria experienced devastating flooding. South and Central America saw severe flooding in Guatemala, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Brazil, and Peru. Severe flooding became routine throughout the world in 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Severe civil disturbances have occurred in England. Civil disturbances have occurred with increased frequency throughout the world of Western style governments.  In my last essay I indicated the following: &lt;em&gt;Political turmoil is on the increase on every continent. Citizens are demonstrating in Thailand, Greece, France, Chechnya, Jakarta, India, and Venezuela to name the more noteworthy&lt;/em&gt;. I see no need to elaborate further here.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;The critical state of the Irish economy exemplifies similar conditions in Portugal, Spain, Greece, Dubai, North Korea, Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil, The Sudan, and most of Africa. The United States has experienced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. National economies are fragile at best and in a state of collapse at worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the six categories mentioned above, none received greater coverage than the news that Elizabeth Edwards died of cancer. She had battled breast cancer for many years but the cancer spread to her liver and she failed shortly thereafter. She had endured hardships such as losing a child, experiencing a divorce from a noted person, and battling an illness that became fatal. Other women have endured similar ordeals, but Elizabeth Edwards was wealthy and a nationally known figure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media treatment of Elisabeth Edwards symbolizes the perversion of values of Western thought. Of all the severe issues affecting society that took place in a 48-hour period the media focused on Elizabeth Edwards. Granted people like human-interest stories, especially about the rich and famous; Elizabeth Edwards was rich and famous and also had her breasts cut off. On the west coast senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina was rich and famous and also had her breasts cut off. The media did not comment on this un-natural condition of women whether poor or rich, known or not. Herein lie two major issues that contribute to the demise of the Western era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first issue is the un-natural lifestyle created by Western thought that results in physical, mental, and emotional conditions that are foreign to natural living. Societies exist in this world where women do not suffer from breast and cervical cancer and where mental depression and suicide are rarities. They also have no need for binge drinking and smoking. These societies raise children that do not require the drug Ritalin to function responsibly. Western thought considers these people to be primitive, third world, and ignorant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second issue has to do with the acceptance of Western society of all its ills. One of the female attributes is adaptability. The feminine principle will adapt to anything, and it is the responsibility of the masculine principle to see that it only adapts to what it best for itself and society. However, Western thought is feminine oriented; therefore, there are no limits as to what it will endure and adapt to. Items one through six of this essay address extreme and unnatural conditions that have received such widespread acceptance that they are only newsworthy for the day. Shouldn’t it be a major concern of society that weather conditions destroy an increasing segment of the world’s land area, that people suffer from increasingly poor health, that political instability continues to grow, as does economic instability? Lastly, women—the nurturers of the race—are in a state of mental, physical and emotional decline; shouldn’t this be a condition that would bring about major societal concern? Lets look at the term “modern and liberated” again and see why these conditions do not concern most of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women are being indoctrinated and propagandized to believe that gender is a social construct rather than a metaphysical truth. They are told that they are “modern and liberated” and can do the same things that men can do. Their mental, physical, and spiritual deterioration gets blamed on other factors, which the great material god in Washington will supposedly take care of through the development of medical “cures” and enactment of political solutions. However, this god and the priesthood around it have created and fostered the very conditions that society in general and women in particular suffer from. Unfortunately Western thought accepts these conditions and continues to forge ahead with a self-centered materialistic lifestyle that continues to take its toll on all members of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people have awakened to the absurdity of the grossly materialistic lifestyle that Western thought has created and have begun to make change in their personal lives. They eat more natural diets, live a calmer and more spiritual life, enjoying the benefits of family, learn to live with less, and share what they have. These people represent a small but growing minority of people who hopefully will form the nucleus of a new age that will arise as the Western era implodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2166613371714586044?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2166613371714586044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2166613371714586044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/12/era-drawing-to-close.html' title='AN ERA DRAWING TO A CLOSE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-7651156839776728393</id><published>2010-11-18T11:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-18T11:26:46.687-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JOB STRESS AND WOMEN’S HEALTH</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On November 14th the media reported the results of an American study that showed the negative effect on women’s health of job related stress. The study indicated that stressful job conditions increased the incidence of heart issues and various forms of cancer. It had less impact on the general public than stating that driving without seatbelts increases traffic fatalities; media coverage disappeared the next day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report did imply that women have less control over their jobs than men do. Of course they have less control than men—they are responsive and men are assertive. The steadfast refusal or inability of Western thought to recognize gender differences is responsible for the problems of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will not dwell on the effects of jobs in this essay as I addressed that issue in a blog titled Jobs Are Destroying Us, which appeared in May 2007 on mensnewsdaily.com and which I have reprinted at the end of this essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s focus will be on the stress induced in women caused by putting them in the unnatural environments of the workplace and single living. Of the many attributes that women have that enable them to nurture the race adaptability, responsiveness, and accommodation especially require that they be in a safe and secure environment. Mother’s milk flows freely when she feels safe and secure. Western thought does not have a priority for the supplying of mother’s milk and all that it represents, and therein lies the problem of women in particular and all society in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The material orientation of Western thought causes it to focus on a life of material gain and self-indulgence. It places a great emphasis on the rights to attain those ends. The propagation and preservation of the species is incidental at best, while humankind’s spiritual needs remain ignored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consequently the function of housewife and homemaker no longer elicits high regard from society, whereas the earning of money—especially lots of it—indicates an independent nature and modern thinking. The primary method of earning money is to have a job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking women out of the secure environment provided by men—whether fathers, brothers, or husbands—has resulted in unnatural stress being place upon them on a continuous basis. This stress has led to severe mental and physical deterioration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the mental plane the number one debilitating illness of the American woman is depression with 10 million women or close to 10% of the adult female population suffering from this malady. In Europe 15% of the women suffer from depression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The high levels of breast cancer and heart ailment are also directly related to the unnatural lifestyle of Western women. I have mentioned previously that among the Dogon tribe in Mali there has never been a recorded case of breast or cervical cancer. I learned this week of another African nation where the rate of breast cancer is one per 500,000. That would be two per million. In America where there are 100 million adult women that rate would result in 200 cases of breast cancer per annum. The actual figure in America is 300,000 per year. In so-called third world or less developed countries the incidence of female suicide and mental breakdown is miniscule by Western standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can we conclude that we are doing something fundamentally wrong regarding the care of women in Western society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mental physical and emotional breakdown of women deprives children of the nurturing love required for their development. Children are thrown into governmental programs when still in diapers while mothers go to their jobs. Sometimes the toll of jobs on mothers becomes so great that they can no longer provide the “care” that government mandates and the children are taken away from the mother and given to others who will provide that care. They might be put in the foster care system or placed for adoption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An increasing proportion of these children become under-performers in school. The academic failure of our children is not a result of poor teaching, it is a result of children who do not receive adequate nurturing love, which only mothers can provide. But their mothers are too busy working at jobs. Children that do not receive nurturing love at home have high rates of teenage motherhood and high dropout rates. They have high rates of ADD and millions of them are drugged with Ritalin. Street gangs members come from broken homes lacking in nurturing love as do most prisoners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our job-oriented society has the highest incarceration rate in the world and also the largest number of men in prison. America has more men in prison than China and India combined.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets’ take a quick review of Western society; it has high incarceration rates; women who are becoming dysfunctional as a result of mental, physical and emotional issues; and children who under-perform at best and who end up as delinquents, prisoners, suicides, or murder victims at worst. The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue in England, the United States, and Canada is mental illness. The national Institute for Mental Health indicates that at any given time 25% of Americans suffer from mental health issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western society is literally going out of its mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government does not address these issues because the government has created them; it considers the primary issue of America to be jobs, Jobs, and JOBS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you content to live under these conditions or do you understand why some members of society of teats and others have testes? If you do, I'd appreciate hearing from you.&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The following essay was posted on mensnewsdaily.com in  May of 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;                                                 JOBS ARE DESTROYING US&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unnatural repetitive activity that jobs call upon people to perform has created so many human problems that a whole field called occupational therapy has sprung up to deal with them. Every bodily part from the top of the head down to the toes has been subject to severe strain. Doing one application for an extended period distorts the body and produces trauma. Sometimes the trauma can only be relieved by surgery; sometimes it can’t be relieved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jobs have a negative affect on the mind as well. Most jobs require people to perform a task, which deprives them of the satisfaction of seeing a completed product resulting from their labor. As one autoworker said many years ago, “I’m well paid, but there’s got to be more to life than hooking up the chassis to the beginning of the production line.” Yes, and there is more to life than putting the headlights in to the car, than being a key punch operator, than sewing tote bags all day, than doing telephone sales, than being a checker at the supermarket, than loading and unloading trucks, or adding numbers all day long. Reducing the productive process to its smallest component makes for efficiency; it also makes for the dehumanization of people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Work on the other had enables people to use their many talents for the benefit of humankind. Original work activity consisted of developing the environment and providing for the needs of people.  Men would clear fields, build shelters, plant crops, and hunt for food. They used all their muscles and all their brainpower in the course of their normal activities. Women, while their work was never done, had the healthiest work of human existence. Not only did they use various muscles as they cleaned, cooked, sewed, dressed and suckled their young, they had the psychological satisfaction of seeing the results of their effort; a clean home, a decorated home, healthy children, and an appreciative husband. They had the spiritual satisfaction of function in an environment that permitted them to give out their love on a continual basis. Constantly emitting love not only does not tire a person, it energizes them. Women of old did not have mental illness; they had very few physical problems and they needed no vacations; why would a woman want to take a vacation from happiness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men took from the oceans, rivers, forests, and land what was necessary to sustain the family. They did not attempt to shoot every pheasant in the forest, or catch every fish in the river. They took what they needed. Men worked from Sun to Sun, but they were relaxed and contented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When men and then women gave up work for jobs their problems began. Instead of working for the needs of the family, tribe, and race, they began working to satisfy individual greed. They peddled their asses for a buck and created a whore society. The whole basis for feminism in wanting the rights of men is that so they could have equal opportunity to make money, Money, MONEY. &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;This whore society has lost its God consciousness. It does not understand the biblical illustration of the birds that neither sow nor reap but are taken care of. The whore society wants more than that; it wants the rights and opportunity to fulfill its insatiable need for self-indulgence and self-gratification. It does not work for the benefit of humankind. It works for the benefit of self. Consequently all who think like that suffer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People hate jobs, even though they beg for them. They want the money that the job pays, but they hate the work that they had to do to get it. Tamerlane, the Tatar conqueror said in his sura, “The reward of slaves is the destruction of the fruits of their enforced labor and the impoverishment and humiliation of their masters.” I was reminded of this sura when the airline unions had their last strike against Eastern Airlines. A woman striker said, “This strike will probably cost me my house, but we’ll show them.” It did cost her the house and she did show them. They put Eastern Airlines out of business. The mentality of people has not changed; they want to destroy the fruits of their enforced labor. Jobs are bad for the health-very bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In writing this column I thought of an earlier comment made to one of my blogs in which the person said, “Just look at what we (Western society) have done in the last 400 years.” I ask that person to reflect on just what we have done. We have built edifices to Mammon throughout the world and have dehumanized the race. Are these not the comments that abound in our blogs and in response to them? We are unhappy, angry, lonely, and dispirited-hardly the makings of a healthy person or society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our materialistic and self-centered psyche has created jobs, feminism, and an all-powerful state. Quit your job and do some work. It will improve your physical, mental, and spiritual health. It might even get you to support change.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-7651156839776728393?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7651156839776728393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7651156839776728393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/11/job-stress-and-womens-health.html' title='JOB STRESS AND WOMEN’S HEALTH'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5259762443919299611</id><published>2010-10-22T06:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-22T06:49:07.804-07:00</updated><title type='text'>PLANNING A NEW DIRECTION</title><content type='html'>Greetings everyone. It has been three months since I posted an essay and most of you probably wonder why. Our website was hacked into and Google put up a warning for people not to enter it as a precaution against a virus infection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During that same period I lost the services of a devoted and highly competent web designer who moved on to other interests. I have since engaged the services of another competent designer who has repaired the damage from the hacking and has motivated google to lift their warnings. This essay will test the one remaining venue—the automatic sending of this essay to our subscribers. Let’s hope that all goes well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the period of quarantine on our website my second book &lt;em&gt;A Gender Handbook for Western Man&lt;/em&gt; was published. It is not yet on the website; however you can order it just as if you were ordering &lt;em&gt;Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility&lt;/em&gt; and I will send you the new book. Postage and handling of $5 for shipments in the USA and $10 for overseas shipments is now required. You can add the postage by making a $5 or $10 donation as the case warrants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This book contains 10 maxims of gender, and explains their functioning in the universe and in our daily lives. It includes 39 essays that I wrote over the last decade relating gender to various aspects of our societal activity. &lt;em&gt;A Gender Handbook for Western Man&lt;/em&gt; clearly illustrates the Western lack of understanding of gender, the issues that arose from this lack, and the governmental activities created in its unsuccessful attempt to compensate for these issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading this book you will be armed with the knowledge needed to address the major problems concerning society, their cause, and remedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting back to the quarantine on our website for a moment, it did not unduly upset me as I have contemplated changing the direction of Men’s Action and saw no purpose in writing more essays and preparing additional videos until the clarification of this new direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before elaborating further on the possible new direction, I will comment on my assessment of the Western world, which in essence is the entire world. Political turmoil is on the increase on every continent. Citizens are demonstrating in Thailand, Greece, France, Chechnya, Jakarta, India, and Venezuela to name the more noteworthy. Elections could not produce majorities in England and New Zealand. The prospect of a majority government in the United States is slim. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governments can no longer afford the cost of services for activities people once provided for themselves. This is the major issue in England, France, and Greece and is becoming the major issue in America. The cost of government is breaking the backs of the governed. Eventually all Western governments will suffer economic failure, which in turn will result in political instability and then martial law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The quality of life of the Western world is deteriorating as well. Prison populations continue to rise while depression and an assortment of mental illnesses continue to increase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s over!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men’s Action now needs to focus on how to live a more natural life outside of the system. What purpose does a philosophy, spiritual truth, or even theory have if it does not benefit humankind? It must benefit humankind not only in the conceptual sense but also in the sense of helping the individual to improve his lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men’s Action planned for this activity more than a decade ago when it prepared its Mission Statement. The focus now needs to be on implementing the mission statement; in the process of serving the community it will build its membership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Activities in that direction have already started. I have been given a slot on a Caribbean-American radio program in which I talk about family, proper nutrition and holistic healing. I have taken a course in pranic healing and have healed people and plan to offer these services along with others on a donation basis to those in need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have planned home economics programs and have roughed out marriage contracts to be used for those who want to start a family structure outside of the system. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Men’s Action website contains 100 essays, six hours of videos, and offers two books. That information is more than adequate to explain the principle of gender the importance of family, and the patriarchal structure necessary to maintain it. The direction now must involve translating this information into practical help for the members of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not everyone has the time to become fully involved in Men’s Action even if they believe in it fully as each person has their area of responsibility and obligation. I can appreciate this as I enjoy nature and believe in living in harmony with the environment, but my primary interests lie elsewhere. Nevertheless, each December I send financial contributions to a half dozen environmental organizations as part of my efforts to support the preservation of nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I would like for each one of you to actively support of Men’s Action I know that you have other responsibilities. Perhaps you could show your support by investing in my books. As you read them you might be motivated to become more active and/or motivate others to become more active. If you cannot afford a book, perhaps you can handle making a donation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever you decide to do, decision time is at hand. You are in the midst of the collapse of a civilization that has lasted for 2,500 years. History is being made. Are you going to stand on the sidelines and watch it unfold and be sucked into the undertow of its departure or will you be a participant in the dawning of a new era? These are the only two options and they allow but one choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I look forward to your support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5259762443919299611?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5259762443919299611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5259762443919299611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/10/planning-new-direction.html' title='PLANNING A NEW DIRECTION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5197683939833361897</id><published>2010-07-25T05:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T05:05:26.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NAMASTE</title><content type='html'>I greet you today with the Sanskrit word Namaste. Greetings are important, especially the thought that they convey. Hello conveys the thought that I recognize you or that I am here, but it is essentially free of any feeling; in many cases the friendlier Hi replaces it. I use Hi in most of my correspondence. However, Hi does not have deep meaning. Namaste on the other hand has depth; it means I bow to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s a beautiful thought to have in mind as we greet people. It has us defer to them and they in turn defer to us. The greeting imbues a sense of humbleness to all who say it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who want the greeting of an organization to reflect power, then Namaste is ideal. Every saint, guru, prophet, and enlightened master in all religions preached and practiced humility. Humbleness is a requirement of the journey to the Godhead; it also enables a person to better serve his fellow man. Humbleness leads to spiritual power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a society where sports competitiveness has reached the level of wishing harm on one another, where competitors plot to injure each other outside of the event, and where the crowds cheer when an opponent is maimed in contact sport; an infusion of humbleness can do a lot to return a sorely needed sense of love and understanding for our fellow man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Financial and professional competitiveness exhibit the same ruthlessness and wish for the undoing of others exhibited in sports. Businesses attempt to literally destroy the competition. Employees in their quest for promotion and advancement often deliberately work to denigrate those who appear to stand in their way of advancement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why this drive to outdo each other? Why the desire to win at al costs? Because the prize is money. Even fame takes second place to money; it becomes an instrument to earn even more money. Our grossly materialistic society makes the accumulation of money its highest goal. We live in a society that looks upon its fellow men and women as competition to be done away with instead of as brothers, sisters, sons and daughters to be loved, respected, and cared for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to say, “I bow to you” to the man who has undertaken the responsibility of marriage and fatherhood. It is time to say, “I bow to you” to the wife and mother who devotes her life to nurturing the family. It is time to say, “I bow to you” to our elders. It is time to say, “I bow to you” to those who serve us and to those whom we serve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An excellent start to negotiations with out “enemies” would be the greeting of Namaste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The traditional way of giving the greeting is to hold your hands in front of the chest as in prayer, look in the eye of the person and bow slightly as you utter the word Namaste. If you can’t bring yourself to strike that pose then just say Namaste. If even uttering the word makes you feel self-conscious, then say Namaste silently to your self as you greet people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to change the world we have to change ourselves, and a major step in that direction is to realize the divinity of all people and bow to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Namaste!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5197683939833361897?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5197683939833361897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5197683939833361897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/07/namaste.html' title='NAMASTE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-6991977871219846877</id><published>2010-07-04T06:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-04T07:55:08.978-07:00</updated><title type='text'>RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT</title><content type='html'>The feminine nature is responsive. It reacts to various influences to its senses and psyche and exists in a continuous state of responsive readiness. The female psyche in all species is responsive; a trait that enables it to provide the nurturing needed for survival. Since Western society has become increasingly female oriented it has naturally increased its focus on responsiveness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western governments are now judged by their level of responsiveness. In America the responses to 9/11, hurricane Katrina, the housing collapse, the machinations of the financial markets, and the BP Gulf oil spill significantly affect the evaluation of governmental effectiveness. Government activity down to its smallest levels such as cities and townships has become increasingly responsive. In addition to responding to fires, burglaries, and public safety matters, local governments now respond to domestic disputes, weather anomalies, academic performance, landlord tenant disputes and a host of day-to-day activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This increase in responsiveness does not seem to produce many positive results, but instead has created devastating negative conditions. By any measure, our responsive society is deteriorating. The incidence of divorce, adultery, incarceration, depression, and a plethora of physical maladies have increased. Academic performance, marriages, and morality have all declined. A closer look at the proper functioning of the responsive woman will indicate why society is experiencing these negative conditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman is designed to be responsive in order to enable her to provide the nurturing requirements of the race. She can only do this in a safe and secure environment that provides her with the wherewithal to function. The responsibility of the male is to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the traditional home a woman would begin her nurturing when she awoke in the morning and continued it until she fell asleep at night. She emitted nurturing love to her entire environment. She did not worry about rent payments, matters financial, or her security. Men took care of these matters and many unseen matters such as developing the ethics that provide for the moral conduct that enabled women to live in a safe and secure environment. Manly responsibilities required planning, organization, structure and courage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the modern woman became “liberated” and had the opportunity to earn her own money, provide for her retirement, safety, and well-being she devoted less time to nurturing and more time to her own survival. This unnatural environment produced depression, the number one ailment of the Western woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking another look at our responsive governments we find that they lack planning. Six months appears to be a long-range plan for our government. It planned how to depose the Hussein government in Iraq but had little concept of what to do afterwards. This action is akin to a person desperately wanting a divorce but having no concept of what he or she will do afterwards. The present administration wants the government to do everything, which results in complete responsiveness and zero planning. A life of responsiveness is a life of happenstance, which will ultimately lead to its collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The responsive woman who functions naturally and successfully is part of a team called a family, which is the fundamental unit of existence. In the mating ritual of all species of life the female indicates that she will provide the nurturing if the male will provide the environment and wherewithal for her to do it. That’s the deal. It’s very simple. That arrangement has provided for the propagation and preservation of the species since the beginning of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western governments try to function without gender differences. They enact laws, which are an ineffective substitute for ethics. What we call primitive societies had very few laws. They did have ethics, which provided the basis for moral behavior and the mores and customs that held society together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western society not having extended family has created institutions for the care of people. Old age homes, orphanages, foster care, homes for unwed mothers, did not exist in most of the non-Western world. Even prisons were rare. Institutions cannot provide what the extended family does for human beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have heard these arguments from me before and I won’t go into the details of the failure of each of our institutions. The point is that nurturing love can only be given by women living in a safe and secure environment that contains the wherewithal to adequately provided for the needs of the race. Only men can provide that environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The genderless society has substituted “care” for nurturing love and governmental institutions for manly responsibility. The result is a society yearning for love and security. It suffers from angst and is going mad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the men who read this essay, you can either decide to do nothing and be part of this responsive goalless society and suffer the consequences, or you can decide to step forward and become an instrument of change. Change is on the horizon, are you going to be in the forefront of this change or are you going to be one of the responders?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-6991977871219846877?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/6991977871219846877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/6991977871219846877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/07/responsive-government.html' title='RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4993262037564363824</id><published>2010-06-27T08:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-27T08:24:38.627-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TAKING ACTION</title><content type='html'>Just a few days after the posting of my essay Changing Our Perspectives the results of a survey appeared on the internet indicating that a majority of Americans expect that by 2050 a cure for cancer will have been achieved and that bionic limbs will be developed that work better than natural ones. Our society has made a god of materialism and fully expects it to do things better than our creator can. The penchant for technological solutions is nothing more than a sophisticated extension of gross materialistic thought, which refuses to recognize that materialism and its extension technology have created the problems of modern society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not going to address the folly of the belief in materialism, but will use this survey as a reminder that most people are not ready to change their perspectives. Only a small virile and dynamic group will bring about change. The last sentence of my essay read,  “Only you can reverse this trend. It requires changing your perspective and having the courage to take appropriate action.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had intended to say only men can reverse this trend, but I know that change will include the supportive nurturing efforts of women, and I wanted to make my call to action all inclusive. However, women can only nurture and support something or someone that exits. They want to see the power and direction before they can support it. In my book, Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility, I stated in Chapter 18 “Women and children go wading; men sit on the beach or go swimming.” When women go wading they can say they were in the water or stayed on the beach depending on the question. Women do not like to make decisions; they abhor them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In every building that I have been in that contained elevators with doors that open out into the hallway I observed women holding the door open while they talked to the person on the elevator or in the hallway as the case might have been. They wanted to leave and they wanted to stay. They like wading. The feminized modern vocabulary has been developed to be free of commitment. It replaces Yes and No with “Maybe” and “I’ll think about it” at best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This does not mean that women won’t support change; it means they don’t initiate change. Their natures are to be responsive and supportive. They need something positive to respond to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More and more women recognize the positive nature of Men’s Action and have begun to support it. The month of June has not yet ended and I am posting the fourth &lt;a href="http://mens-action-news.blogspot.com/2010/06/letter-from-new-zealand.html"&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; from a woman under Men’s action News titled “A letter from New Zealand.”  These four women join many others who write in to support our message. They see that Men’s Action consists of more than a blog site; they see that it has a mission statement, videos, a book, information materials and a consistent message. They want to see more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They want to see a commitment and action from men; including their husbands, boyfriends, fathers, and brothers. Instead they see increasing numbers of men going wading with the women and children. They want to be in an environment in which the men let their yes me yes and their no be no. Instead increasing numbers of modern men say “maybe” and “I’ll think about it.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decisiveness and zeal have a spiritual foundation. In Revelations 3:15-16 we find the following: “I know all your ways; your are neither hot nor cold. How I wish you were either hot or cold! But because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth.” The word from headquarters is that lukewarm doesn’t accomplish anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time my sons to get up from the beach and make a commitment to dive into the surf of change. There is no power in this world other than the power within you. When you exercise that power you will begin to make change and it will receive the responsive nurturing support of women everywhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4993262037564363824?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4993262037564363824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4993262037564363824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/06/taking-action.html' title='TAKING ACTION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4794744975772303031</id><published>2010-06-19T18:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-19T18:22:59.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CHANGING OUR PERSPECTIVES</title><content type='html'>Many people have become aware of the malfunctioning of society but few recognize the cause. Most feel that a little tampering of the basic system will “fix” things and then society will function properly. Reliance on the basic system and its various institutions becomes normal due to having been born into them, educated by them, and taught to rely upon them to care for us in one way or another. We come to regard any malfunction of society not a result of the system and its institutions, but a result of the system or its institutions not operating properly. Our efforts focus on fixing the system, rather than changing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author Alberto Moravia expressed well the resistance to changing an established system with the following words, “There is no greater suffering for man than to feel his cultural foundation giving way beneath his feet.” The fear of the prospect of an established system failing greatly inhibits our ability to alter it or rid ourselves of it. To remedy our situation we must change our perspectives. We must change the thinking that caused the malfunctioning of our society; a prospect so difficult that none but the most enlightened, disenchanted, and/or suffering will have the courage to undertake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One example of the malfunctioning of our society is what we refer to as the “sexual revolution” of the 20th century. This revolution entails the promotion and acceptance of non-marital sexual activity and all its deleterious consequences. It ignores the primary purpose of sexual activity, which is to mate and propagate the species; instead it promotes a life of self-centered sensation devoid of the ethics necessary for moral behavior. The system that developed the sexual revolution is as we shall see, fundamentally unsound, but first let’s look at the negative consequences of the sexual revolution and the attempt of society to “fix’ the results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women are designed to become pregnant. To attempt to alter the natural function of the female body so that it does not become pregnant by introducing chemicals into it can only lead to injury to the body. To use condoms and diaphragms denies a woman the benefit of the absorption into her body the natural relaxant contained in the sperm. Studies have shown that women whose partners use condoms during sexual intercourse are more prone to depression than those whose partners do not use condoms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When birth control has not worked there is always the option of abortion and the almost infinite number of negative effects on the body, mind, and psyche of women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the option of abortion is not exercised the next step is to become an unwed mother; a practice that produces children with high educational dropout rates, poor academic performance, high levels of teenage pregnancies, undisciplined women, weak men, and candidates for street gangs and the prison system. It also produces stressed out women who frequently can’t cope with full time employment and the demands of motherhood resulting in the loss of their children to the foster care system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman’s nature is to mate for life, and the supposed independence of non-marital sex and a life alone leads to debilitating depression—the number one illness of Western women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For other articles pertaining to the negative effects of our materialistic society see: The Need for &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2008/10/need-for-nurturing.html"&gt;Nurturing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2008/12/depression-of-western-women.html"&gt;Depression&lt;/a&gt; of Western Women, &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/04/devastation-of-western-women.html"&gt;Devastation&lt;/a&gt; of Western Women, and &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/01/destruction-of-ethics-in-western.html"&gt;Destruction&lt;/a&gt; of Ethics in Western society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western governments have on their payroll legions of psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians, social workers, truant officers, judges, parole officers, and members of other disciplines from various institutions whose whole lives are spent teaching women and society to cope with the ravages to the female body, mind, and psyche caused by the “sexual revolution” and the destruction of the family. At least 90% of the 2.4 million men in prison come from broken homes, as do 95% of our youth in street gangs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of focusing on improved methods of birth control, more extensive use of psychological counseling, an increase in after school programs, and a more compassionate criminal justice system, wouldn’t it be easier to live in a manner that does not entail the need for these services?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To live in that manner would require a change in our perspectives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unsound system that caused the sexual revolution was a fixation on materialism, which is an antonym for spirituality. We cannot live a happy, peaceful, and spiritual life when we focus on material acquisition and gain. The very definition of focus indicates that it cannot be in two places; we either focus on matters material or on matters spiritual. Paul’s statement that the love of money is the root of all evil indicates that a materialistic focus leads to all forms of decadence. A present and very visible form of the decadence created by materialistic thought is the sexual revolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entire foundation for the sexual revolution and feminist thought is gross materialism. The concept of sexual equality is based on the equal opportunity to earn money and acquire things. The destruction of men’s clubs was to rid them of any competitive advantage in employment and business. This thinking received little argument from a society focused on making money and amassing stuff. The propagation and preservation of the species receives no focus in the entire socio-educational system, whereas efforts to avoid and eliminate pregnancies are part of the national sex-education program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics do not exist in a society focused on materialism. Without ethics there is no basis for moral behavior. Materialistic societies attempt to compensate for the lack of ethics by the enactment of laws. There can never be enough laws to compensate for the lack of understanding provided by ethics and the subsequent moral behavior. The greed of financial markets, carelessness of deep sea oil drilling, increase in the rate of adultery and divorce, and general lack of concern for one’s neighbors evidence the lack of ethics in our genderless society.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is another way to live; it requires a change in perspective and a focus on spirituality and the realization that the purpose of humankind is to propagate and preserve the species as part of its spiritual growth. To accomplish this requires strong families and the development of ethics that support the well being of all members of society, respect for all people and all life, and an understanding of matters spiritual. This is a natural way of life and its called patriarchy.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This essay will be posted on Father’s Day 2010. Perhaps as you witness the decreased observance of this date it will help you to realize the decreasing influence of men and fathers in our society and all the negativity that it entails. Only you can reverse this trend. It requires changing your perspective and having the courage to take appropriate action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4794744975772303031?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4794744975772303031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4794744975772303031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/06/changing-our-perspectives.html' title='CHANGING OUR PERSPECTIVES'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2248946294271252984</id><published>2010-05-23T16:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-24T08:21:17.049-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE BLOCK PLAYERS</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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).”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Block people—most of who were raised in a &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;cubicle&lt;/a&gt;—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.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kindergarten will soon be over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2248946294271252984?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2248946294271252984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2248946294271252984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/05/block-players.html' title='THE BLOCK PLAYERS'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-1159889396822062335</id><published>2010-05-18T14:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-18T14:44:41.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SUPPRESION OF MALE INFLUENCE IN EDUCATION</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I addressed the gender bias in our education system in my &lt;a href="http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/01/25/the-boy-crises/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; The Boy Crises and in my &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2008/12/reason-for-collapse-of-american.html"&gt;essay&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/10/ignorance-when-empowered-becomes-evil.html"&gt;essay&lt;/a&gt; Ignorance Empowered Becomes Evil explains how this evil came about and how it is destroying our society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        *                    *                    *                     *                    *                 *&lt;br /&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fergusson et al. (1991a) gives the following as the reason for boys' comparatively low educational achievement in schools:... &lt;em&gt;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&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;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.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;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.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- They interpret, as much as possible, every difference between boys and girls as a disadvantage suffered by girls;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- 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;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- They are unable to conceive of bias against boys as being possible, or --  if possible -- as being a bad thing;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- They are biased against boys in their teaching and assessment;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- They turn some boys off the educational process, resulting in poor academic performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-1159889396822062335?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1159889396822062335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1159889396822062335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/05/suppresion-of-male-influence-in.html' title='SUPPRESION OF MALE INFLUENCE IN EDUCATION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-7423904735414127918</id><published>2010-05-05T09:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T09:53:39.819-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A LETTER FROM ERIN</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Email reads as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elder George,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you for your thought provoking messages. I appreciate your insight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Erin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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&lt;em&gt; Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility&lt;/em&gt;. 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-7423904735414127918?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7423904735414127918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7423904735414127918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/05/letter-from-erin.html' title='A LETTER FROM ERIN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-836353099411524646</id><published>2010-04-26T11:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T12:06:49.438-07:00</updated><title type='text'>B12 DEFICIENCY &amp; INSTITUTIONAL ENSLAVEMENT</title><content type='html'>A seemingly innocuous event occurred recently that I feel has great import concerning the increasing dependency of Western society upon its institutions and I decided to share it with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After having cold symptoms that would not break for more than a month and in the process becoming fatigued and achy, I visited my doctor who conducted a series of blood tests, which determined that I had a vitamin B12 deficiency. A few B12 shots later my body returned to normal functioning. This event on the surface did not contain any newsworthiness as it occurs many times a day every day throughout Western society.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the event did concern me because I am a vegetarian and common knowledge (a myth) holds that vegetarians tend to suffer more from vitamin B12 deficiencies than non-vegetarians. Upon some personal questioning and internet research I learned that many, if not most, vegetarians take B12 supplements, which if true caused me to wonder how all the vegetarians survived through the millennia before the development of synthesized B12 by Western society. Something didn’t ring true about the understanding of vitamin B12 deficiency, especially since I learned that many non-vegetarians suffer from B12 deficiencies and also take supplements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I phoned a friend well steeped in nutrition and holistic medicine and he informed me that vitamin B12 did not come from foods; the body generated it. I later remembered that in my youth, perhaps in grade school, one of my teachers taught us that the body generated all the B12 that it needed. This caused me to reflect on why the body of modern man (whether vegetarian or not) had difficulty in producing B12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One view holds that people live longer now and that nutritional deficiencies existed in earlier times but did not manifest because of the shorter life spans. This view is pure propaganda. If we check our own history we will learn that Indian chiefs such as Sitting Bull rode into battle at 50, 60 and even 70 years of age. Geronimo was selling his autograph to tourists in Florida when he was in his 90’s. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus lived to the age of 109 and he was one of a host of ancient Greek philosophers that lived beyond the age of 90. Every society of indigenous peoples throughout the world had its elders that lived well beyond the age of 90. All these societies did it without the availability of modern Western nutritional supplements. Even the Hunzas of today live well beyond 100 years of age without access to modern technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason that an increasing number of people require vitamin B12 supplements, and other supplements as well stems from the damage done to the food chain and then to the body from medication, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, genetic engineering, and preservative packaging that contaminate our foods. The intrusion of these toxic elements into our food chain (with the complicity of all of our institutions) has destroyed the body’s natural inner balance. The same imbalance has been created in the womb of women due to the use of antibiotics, which alter the ph levels and cause an increased incidence of yeast infections. These very institutions that offer “cures” for our illnesses created the conditions that spawned them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we do to another person happens to ourselves and what we do to the environment affects us personally as well. We have created dead zones in the environment such as in the Gulf of Mexico in which marine life can no longer develop properly. Dead zones have also developed in our bodies in which bacteria and microbial life can no longer develop properly. As we desecrate the earth we desecrate our bodies. As mother earth suffers, we too suffer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought does not harmonize with nature; instead it strives to control, fight and tame nature so that it can be exploited. As we have seen this materialistic thinking leads to the demise of all life. The technology that provides antibiotics, vitamin supplements, and synthetic hormones used to prolong our lives actually shortens our lives and makes us dependent upon artificial sources to survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology is an extension of gross materialism and those who are enamored with it believe it can solve all problems; an arrogant point of view based on ignorance of the workings of the universe. Technologists actually believe they can make a better apple than God did. They believe they can improve upon nature. They practice genetic engineering in order make and do things not found in nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prophet Jeremiah speaking the words of God tells the people “You forgot who I am, I’m the one who gave you everything. I gave you cisterns of living water and you have made for yourselves cisterns that leak.” Several centuries later Paul said, “There is no single gift that you have not received.” Still today, Western thought actually believes it can improve upon nature, as though God forgot something. This thinking is evidence of the imbalance of gender, of a failure to realize that what we see is predicated upon what is unseen. Only the unseen provides for the seen and only the male provides for the female. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two significant points that I make with this essay, both of them showing the imbalance of gender in Western society and the negative effects that they produce. The first and more obvious being that the destruction of the natural by the technological results in the malfunction of life and ultimately its demise. I am 80 years old and represent a generation raised on natural foods. The animals that served as our food were raised in free range and ate a natural diet. We as a generation were not injected with antibiotics and did not take drugs to alleviate the discomfort of colds. We were not subject to high frequency radiation from communications products. We are the last of a generation that lived a relatively natural life. I take no medications and the vitamin B12 injections were the first medically prescribed supplements I ever took. I expect to live many more years, not as a result of technology, but as a result of having lived the formative years of my life without it. I was a poor boy raised during the Great Depression and I didn’t see people suffering from lack of medical attention. There was no health crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mother, father in law, and mother in law all lived to be 90. My stepfather died at 88 and never went to doctors. These people lived a relatively natural life and required relatively little attention in their old age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s contrast my generation to the present generation which contains an increasing number of diabetics among those in their 30’s. Thirty-year-old diabetics usually do not reach old age. The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease is occurring more frequently and at lower ages. Technology is searching for a cure for this debilitating condition. There is nothing to cure. God did not create Alzheimer’s; it is a direct result of Western technology and the aberrant lifestyle it creates, as are most of the new diseases of the modern technological age.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If modern technology is such a blessing why is there a health crises in America? The material focus and ignorance of the unseen has mutated every facet of life in modern society. All of our institutions whether medical, legal, governmental, educational, scientific, and pharmaceutical are infected with gross materialistic thinking and are imploding from a lack of virility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second point I make with this essay—and perhaps most important—addresses the docility that accompanies the feminization of our society. We accept nutritional supplements, inoculations, the destruction of the food chain, the destruction of the family, increasing incarceration rates, the prevalence of divorce and adultery, and the multitude of aberrations of nature that constitute modern Western society. It has become the norm of society and whatever becomes the norm gains acceptance, even if it is unnatural and detrimental to our lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ten percent of American Women and 15% of European women suffer from debilitating depression. The number one health issue of the European world is mental illness. In America 26.2% of the people at any given time are diagnosed as having mental illness. As those who suffer from these maladies increase they will be considered normal and those who do not suffer from these conditions will be considered abnormal. This is not a joke. I am considered to be an anomaly by the American Medical Association. According to their figures the average person over 65 takes eight prescription medications. I do not take any; therefore, I am not normal. Normal people take drugs. Think of the ramifications of that value structure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time for people who understand the principle of gender, which is manifested as the balance of nature, to begin to do something different with their lives before they become classified as abnormal. We are a society that has already become enslaved; it is only the degree of slavery that is questionable. It is time to come out from under this enslavement and start living a life apart from the institutions that created it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I ask that you review my essays &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;The Cubists&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2007/11/fix-it-society.html"&gt;The Fix It Society&lt;/a&gt;. You might also review the following link on B12 deficiencies. &lt;a href="http://www.vibrancyuk.com/B12.html"&gt;http://www.vibrancyuk.com/B12.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don’t be docile. It’s time to act. Let me hear from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-836353099411524646?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/836353099411524646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/836353099411524646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/04/b12-deficiency-institutional.html' title='B12 DEFICIENCY &amp; INSTITUTIONAL ENSLAVEMENT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3381343044012333522</id><published>2010-04-04T07:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T07:47:20.544-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IT’S TIME TO BREAK IN</title><content type='html'>People of the Western world feel an increasing constriction of their freedom. They see a growing involvement by government in every aspect of their lives. The simplest of disputes require going to court and/or hiring a lawyer. The government has taken over every aspect of domestic relations. It dominates the standards to which children are raised. It has taken over every aspect of education. It will soon take over every aspect of the care of the health of society. It is increasing its influence on the nature of the foods sold and/or made available. Governmental regulations now control most every aspect of the operation of the workplace. Government has replaced moral and immoral, right and wrong, with legal and illegal. People have little latitude in the conduct of the most personal aspect of their lives. They feel boxed in on every side and have developed an increasing urge to break free of these constrictions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People will soon start taking the action necessary to break free; however, contrary to common thinking and practice the way to freedom will not come about by breaking out of this confinement. The focus on the outer world and all its institutions has caused the encroachment by government and the feeling of helplessness to do anything about it. The path to freedom requires changing the focus from the outer world to the inner world.  People need to break into the inner world and realize the power and ability they have as men and women. Western thought has focused on the outer material world for a long time and this process has suppressed the inherent power of men and women and made them dependent upon and then controlled by governmental institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men created institutions; institutions did not create men. Every institution that exists, regardless of its size, power, and scope came into existence from the inner power of men. The only assertive influence in the universe is the masculine principle; it resides within man, not outside of him. When all the institutions pass man will remain, but when man passes none of the institutions will remain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The influence of man within the institutions he created is passing as a result of laws demanding equality (sameness) of the sexes. All institutions are losing their vitality and to compensate have welcomed governmental intervention in order to maintain their operations. The government can only shore up the institutions from the outside, whereas they are collapsing from the inside. All Western institutions are failing. All.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To attempt to improve the conditions within by changing the conditions without is working contrary to nature. When the inside changes, the outside changes. When the influence of the inside is inhibited, restricted, or impeded the outside begins to whither.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Institutions have been established to check on the institutions that are failing. Institutions have been established outside of institutions to monitor activities within institutions. All institutions are being attacked and even sued by their members. Ultimately the government is called on to monitor all institutions, and then investigative committees are formed to monitor the government. No amount of institutional adjustment and tinkering can save the institutions. They will all fail because among other things, they do not possess the ethics necessary to maintain moral behavior. They cannot. Ethics do not exist in the material world. They only exist in the unseen world of the masculine principle. When the authority of the masculine influence was removed from institutions all ethics disappeared and the decline began.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The basic institution created for the propagation and preservation of the species is family. All the other institutions that Western thought created are ineffective substitutes for that basic institution. Men make families. They make them for the express purpose of propagating and preserving the species while on its spiritual journey. In order for that objective to be realized women must be included in the institution, not only for the purpose of procreating but also for what Western thought refers to as the “care” of children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western society uses the term “care” to describe efforts that support the sustaining of all life such as care of the aged, health care, pre-school care, after school care, home care, animal care, livestock care, poultry care, pet care, and garden care. The term “care” usually means the providing of food, shelter, and if necessary, clothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Institutions have been established to provide various forms of “childcare” thus “freeing” women from its “drudgery” and instead enabling them to pursue “self-fulfilling” careers. Institutions now feed children, provide shelter, change their diapers, provide for their recreation, teach values, and even provide free condoms for their sexual activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The institutionalized care of children does not produce positive results. The United States has the distinction of having the most violent boys in the world. Three million American girls suffer from depression and close to one million American schoolboys receive prescribed doses of the drug Ritalin. The number one health issue of England, The United States and Canada is mental illness. Fifteen percent of European women suffer from debilitating depression. Something is missing from the “care” of people in the Western world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The essential ingredient for the sustaining of a healthy natural lifestyle is “nurturing love.” Institutions cannot provide nurturing love. Only the female of all species can provide nurturing love. Women are equipped to bring forth life and bathe it in nurturing love. The ingredient they put into food that cannot be found elsewhere is nurturing love. They put nurturing love into the folds of the laundry, into the making of the beds, and into every thing they touch in the home. All life needs nurturing love to develop properly and women provide it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women can only provide nurturing love if they live in a secure environment. Mother’s milk flows freely when she is safe and secure. Men naturally provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. With the removal of male authority the environment necessary for women to provide nurturing love disappeared. Consequently, our children and all of society suffer from mal-nutrition of nurturing love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western society suffers from a lack of nurturing, and is love-starved; it has attempted to supply through institutions and material means the non-material qualities necessary for the development of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A growing factor in creating a love-starved society is unwed motherhood, which now accounts for 40% of births in America and for 50% in France. Unwed motherhood results in a non-conducive environment for providing nurturing love, thus it exacerbates the downward spiral of love-starved Western society. Their children are dumped into after school programs when still in diapers and at best receive nurturing love on an installment basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This essay has gone into considerable length to explain that all that is necessary to propagate, preserve, and develop a proper life comes from the unseen inner qualities of men and women, not from institutions. Paul said there is no single gift that you have not received. Matthew contains the words “There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be known.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the duality of the physical universe there are two poles or powers. The first is the masculine principle, which is the assertive influence of the universe and supplies the structure, direction, and environment necessary for the second, the feminine principle—the receptive entity—to provide the nurturing love necessary for all of existence. These two poles working together provide a unity of purpose in the physical world as humankind progresses on its spiritual journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is the time my sons and daughters to break in and utilize these inner powers to create a more natural way of life for humankind as the institutionalized environment crumbles. To assist you with these efforts the focus of Men’s Action has changed its course. Its message has been clearly defined by the 90 essays on its website, and by my book and information booklets. The manuscript for my second book A Gender Handbook For Western Man is at the publishers, which when published and combined with the other materials should make our message abundantly clear. The new direction entails more specificity concerning the building of an alternative lifestyle outside of the institutionally oriented system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can help with this change of direction by investing in my book and information materials, promoting our website, and propagating its message. The time for change is close upon us; let’s collectively participate in it. The power is within you; use it. Now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3381343044012333522?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3381343044012333522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3381343044012333522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-time-to-break-in.html' title='IT’S TIME TO BREAK IN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-7327000802690930562</id><published>2010-03-22T04:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-22T04:40:23.251-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DISCONTENT WITH WESTERN INSTITUTIONS</title><content type='html'>The current pressure on the Vatican produced by Catholics of various European nations regarding sexual abuse by the priesthood serves as another illustration of societal discontent with all Western institutions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Priestly abuse of children has not caused the discontent within Catholicism; it is a symptom of it. Ex-Catholics comprise 10% of the American population. The influence of all Western religious institutions has declined. People who have no religious affiliation whatsoever have divorce rates on a par with those of Christians. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American public has a negative impression of the performance of governmental institutions whether federal, state or local regardless of party affiliation. This disillusionment with the performance of government exists not only in America and Europe, but any place in the world where Western forms of government and institutions have taken root. Every week we find reports in the news media of demonstrations against governments of Western origin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American educational institutions produce graduates with continually deteriorating academic performance. American legal institutions have produced the highest number of incarcerations in the world. American health institutions have produced a nation so ill that the cost of health care is bankrupting the nation. International financial institutions own the world and literally determine how hard a person must work to afford the necessities of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Discontent with all Western institutions continues to increase and rightly so; they are aberrations of nature that dehumanize societal activity. There is little difference in the care of humans and animals in the West; both species are raised in unnatural environments and suffer accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man established these unnatural structures as substitutes for his responsibility, obligation and consideration of society. He gave his authority to the institutions that he created so that he could devote himself to the study and acquisition of matters material. The result has seen the degradation of society’s mental, physical, and spiritual condition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue in England, America, and Canada is mental illness. In France they take anti-depressants at a rate two and a half times that the English do, which would indicate an even higher rate of mental illness. Upwards of 10% of American women and 15% of European women suffer from debilitating depression. Three million American girls now suffer from depression and the psychiatric facilities of universities constitute part of the evaluation process by parents and applicants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are a society rapidly going mad. Isn’t that a sufficient indication that the institutionalization of people is an aberration of nature? What more proof do we need?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately Western thought cannot conceive of another way of living other than through its institutions. It does not have an understanding of the purpose of human existence or of nature. Lacking understanding and purpose it requires direction from another source (a feminine requirement normally, naturally, and traditionally provided by men). It created institutions in the hope that they will provide purpose and order. They provide neither. Institutions have no ethics upon which to base moral behavior. They have no concept of right and wrong and create legal and illegal and a system of laws and punishments within their structures in an attempt to maintain social order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Institutions desire to grow and eliminate competition; they want to converge. Ecumenism attempts to create a one-world religion. Financial institutions have already created a one-world economic system. The New World Order calls for a one-world governmental system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These institutions create growing discontent among the populace and are becoming increasingly ineffective. Consequently the need for greater governmental control has developed in an attempt to cope with the disorder that the discontent produces. The growth of institutions in the Western world has spiraled out of control and will ultimately implode. After the implosion of Western society a natural gender balance will re-establish it self and humankind will begin living in tune with nature and the spirit behind it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purpose of human existence is the propagation and preservation of the species while on its spiritual journey. It is the spirit within each person that creates the discontent with institutions. The spirit working within causes people to chaff at the gross materialism of these institutions and will ultimately enable them to prevail against them. A gender balance must be developed in order for that goal to be achieved. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it; an arrangement called patriarchy that provides the structure for family—the fundamental unit of humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Institutions will be replaced by social mores, traditions, and customs directed at propagating and preserving the species. Spiritual texts will no longer serve as rulebooks for institutions but instead will be used as training manuals for the uplifting of humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The choice that we have is whether to go along with the institutions and get sucked under when the collective ship sinks, or to begin living our lives outside of the institutions now and get a head start on a new and meaningful life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-7327000802690930562?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7327000802690930562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/7327000802690930562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/03/discontent-with-western-institutions.html' title='DISCONTENT WITH WESTERN INSTITUTIONS'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4919262344881677593</id><published>2010-03-07T13:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-07T13:14:19.114-08:00</updated><title type='text'>REAL MEN DON’T DEMONSTRATE</title><content type='html'>This week the world news media reported on demonstrations by college students in California and by the citizenry in Greece. In California the students demonstrated against cuts in the State educational budget and in Greece the people demonstrated against cuts in government services and employment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When people demonstrate they indicate displeasure with their environment and hope that they will influence a higher power to take the necessary action to improve conditions and eliminate their displeasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This activity is akin to a wife creating a scene with her husband in which she hopes to motivate him to take action that will relieve the displeasure that she could not alleviate on her own. When a group of women make a scene it’s called a demonstration, but the intent is the same as when a wife make a scene with her husband, to get a higher power to make changes which they could not make on their own. This behavior is natural for women because of their receptive, responsive, and adaptable natures; they inherently know that the power resides outside of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What excuse do men have for demonstrating? Men—real men—know that the power resides within them; therefore, they do not have an inclination to demonstrate; however, Western thought has motivated men to relinquish their natural power and turn it over to the government. The education, health, safety and security, financial well-being, and administration of inter-personal relationships of society now depend upon government largess. Men have no authority over anything anymore; therefore, they now—like women—demonstrate for solutions to their issues. How sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demonstrating men cause extensive disconcertment among women, though society tends not to realize it. When a woman screams, cries, and demonstrates she is transmitting a signal that she needs help and inherently she hopes that this help will come from a man. If the man also screams, cries, and demonstrates, then she has no choice but to seek an alternate source to alleviate her fear, sorrow, or discontent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a practical basis, if a man cannot provide the help that a woman seeks, she has little need for him; consequently marriage rates have dropped and divorce rates have increased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The alternate sources that women approach for help—whatever and whomever they might be—cannot provide the love and security that a man can. Consequently women become disconcerted, which manifests itself in depression, the number one illness of Western women throughout the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depressed women engage in therapy, take anti-depressants, and join support groups, but all of these activities focus on alleviating the symptoms but not the cause of depression. Depression comes from the unnatural lifestyle of attempting to live independent of men, which results in insecurity, loneliness, and angst. Only men can change the situation of depressed women and the neglected children that result from this depression, but they won’t be able to do it by demonstrating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to change the lot of women and children and improve the condition of society in general men must regain their authority and exercise it. They must understand that there is no higher power than themselves. They must realize that they created all the institutions that now have power over them. Institutions have no ethics, no love, and no reality. Ethics come from men who realize the purpose of human existence is the propagation and preservation of the species while on its spiritual journey. They must rise up and reassert themselves, and this is a good time to do it as a growing discontent has arisen against all the institutions that Western man has created. People have lost faith in government and all the bureaucracies that they have spawned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don’t the men act? They have been conditioned to be unsure of themselves regarding their relationship with women. Frequently I am asked by men, “What do the women say?” in response to my message. I have received letters of support from women young and old, domestic and foreign, black and white, and from Muslim, Jew, and Christian. Today I will publish another letter of support from a woman under Men’s Action News. I know with a certainty that I will receive positive response from women to this article on demonstrations, but I won’t make any bets that I will get positive responses from men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time for the men to step forward and create a society outside of the existing institutions. The only natural societal structure is patriarchy and only men can establish it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Institutions will not get any better—they can’t. They have no ethics. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demonstrating acknowledges your dependency and subordination to a higher authority. You my sons and brothers are the highest authority. It is time to act accordingly and stop demonstrating and do what is necessary to bring about change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prophets, enlightened masters and saints who came before us did not demonstrate. They were the demonstration of manly power. It is time to emulate them and foster a natural way of life for humankind. The power resides within you—be its demonstration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4919262344881677593?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4919262344881677593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4919262344881677593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/03/real-men-dont-demonstrate.html' title='REAL MEN DON’T DEMONSTRATE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4710414620169961788</id><published>2010-02-06T16:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T16:43:27.498-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SUICIDE IN THE MILITARY</title><content type='html'>An article &lt;em&gt;The War Inside&lt;/em&gt; in the December 2009 issue of The American Legion Magazine (ALM) coupled with an article by NBC News Services on the internet in November 2009, both addressed the high number of suicides in the military, which motivated me to finally write this article. I say finally, because this subject of mental illness on the part of veterans has been on my mind for the more than 30 years since I first became aware of the disproportionate number of Vietnam veterans in psychiatric care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What caused the high rate of mental disorder among Vietnam veterans and what causes the high rate of suicide among today’s service personnel? These conditions are related; mental disorder leads to suicide. If we deal with the first the second will be alleviated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ALM article also pointed out that the United States has 33,000 estimated suicides each year and that number might be under-estimated by 25 to 50 percent. That should not come as a surprise. The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue of England, the United States, and Canada is mental illness. The French take anti-depressants at a rate two and half times that of the British; one can only imagine the incidence of mental illness in France. Western society has not only accepted mental illness, the malady has become a norm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The above statistics serve as background for the issue of mental illness and suicide among our service personnel and veterans who are part of a mentally unhealthy society. Unlike an authority quoted in ALM I do not feel considerable research is required. Societies that have a strong family orientation have low levels of mental illness and suicide. Those societies give people a sense of belongingness. It teaches them the ethics required for positive moral conduct. Western society has destroyed family and is paying the price in the form of increased mental illness and other devastating societal issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In focusing more on the military I will first address the passing reference made by the articles to female suicide, which indicated more data was needed on its incidence and more research on its causes. God designed women with the psyche, minds, and bodies necessary to bring life into this world and nurture it. To teach this creation how to kill rather than bring forth life is contrary to its nature and will cause many problems. Do we really need research to support that conclusion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do women enter the military? I remember seeing in the newspapers a picture of a mother in fatigues, helmet and carrying full pack leaving her two infants behind for a tour in Iraq and the caption quoting her words “I need the money.” Is that what the army now consists of; female mercenaries who will kill for money? I thought the reason that men went to war was to protect the motherland, to protect women, children, and future generations. Now that women are going off to war what are we fighting for? Let’s remember that question further on in this essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The female soldier’s focus on the motivation of money runs contrary to the natural call to arms. Serving one’s country traditionally consists of giving up ones job for subsistence level wages in the military. During World War II the pay for privates was $21 a month. A humorous song written about Army wages had lyrics that went “$21 a day once a month.” I can remember when my motivation came to enlist in the Navy in 1953. I was employed and well paid as a Merchant Officer with the Military Sea Transportation Service and traded that position in for what was then a low level of pay as a Lieutenant junior grade. I never calculated the pay loss for the two years in which I served on active duty. I considered it a privilege, honor, and duty to serve my country. My father before me enlisted in The American Expeditionary Force in World War I, not for money but as a sense of duty for the new land that gave him opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we have mercenaries defending us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nature of warfare has also changed considerably over the years. In World War I enemy combatants would often meet after artillery attacks and share a smoke together. Then they would shake hands, go back to their trenches and do what they had to do. There was a sense of comraderie and an understanding that each man had a family at home that loved him; he wanted to survive and didn’t want to kill any one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That sense of comraderie with the enemy diminished in World War II when the allied war policy consisted of inflicting as much harm as possible to the civilian population of the enemy with the aim of breaking their will to continue the conflict. American planes killed 150,000 in one bombing in Hamburg and British planes killed 250,000 during another bombing in Dresden. A few hundred thousand Japanese bodies went up in smoke in Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the killing of 500,000 civilians by conventional bombing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The inflicting of civilian casualties has continued as a part of American combat policy in the Far East. The spraying of Agent Orange and Napalm indiscriminately on the countryside in Vietnam contributed to the 14.25 million casualties in a nation of less than 50 million people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No well-balanced and rational human being wants to kill or inflict bodily damage on another human being; to do so runs counter to his basic nature. It breaks one of the great commandments. It is one thing to drop bombs on people and not see the resulting blood and gore that results from that action. It is quite another thing to pull the trigger on the gun that kills people or throw the grenade that maims them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the sake of this article let’s say that the enemy deserved what they got; we were the good guys and they were the bad guys. But what about us? What has happened to the good guys who inflicted all these casualties on the enemy? The memory of the slaughter of civilians is burned deep in the minds and psyches of the soldiers; it cannot be removed and accounts for many of the psychiatric problems of Vietnam veterans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s one thing to go into combat and do the dirty work required if one has a sense that this activity is helping to protect a way of life he believes in. However, when we get back to the question asked earlier “Now that women are going off to war, what are we fighting for?” the answer becomes more difficult to reach. As our soldiers in the Middle East become aware that increasing numbers of their buddies become afflicted with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they return to the States, frequently lose custody of their children, and not infrequently end up in prison, they are less inclined to think that it was all worth fighting for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The situation continues to worsen for our young soldiers. We lure teenagers off the basketball courts and into uniform, psyche them up with KILL, KILL, KILL indoctrination, and turn them loose on other teenagers who maybe were playing basketball or soccer that afternoon. Whether the civilians were killed on purpose, by accident, or in self-defense, the effect on our young soldiers is devastating. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deprogramming the KILL, KILL, KILL, indoctrination does not come easy and results in questionable success. We are destroying the flower of youth of those in our military. Most efforts to address this issue focus on effects and not causes. It is time that veterans organizations, which always rally to the support of our service personnel, address the underlying causes of why our young men and women are having increasing mental health issues.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Training women to kill is unnatural. Training men and women to kill civilians is unnatural. Having military campaigns without clearly defined objectives is unnatural.  Not having strong reasons for protecting our way of life is unnatural. Reducing military service to a high paid job classification is unnatural. Prolonged exposure to an unnatural lifestyle produces mental illness whether in the military or out of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time has come to analyze our lifestyle. Living a natural way of life decreases mental illness and the resulting incidence of suicide.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: The mass killing of civilians has reached such an acceptance in Western society that when conducted in the film Avatar no critical condemnation occurred. However, Pandora (the enemy) also had warrior women and a lack of family activity. The &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqKSbvcBM0"&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; depicted two unnatural, androgynous oriented, and purposeless societies neither of which warranted fighting and dying for.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4710414620169961788?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4710414620169961788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4710414620169961788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/02/suicide-in-military.html' title='SUICIDE IN THE MILITARY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5848384015814450767</id><published>2010-02-01T06:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T06:22:48.209-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A DISCONTENTED SOCIETY</title><content type='html'>Polls indicate that the dissatisfaction of the American public with its institutions has reached an all time high. This statistic when coupled with a recent finding that most people express dissatisfied with their jobs leads to a reasonable conclusion that discontent prevails in our society. The high rate of depression and mental illness found in all Western societies supports this conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have indicated my opposition to men relying on institutions instead of themselves in many essays, and I have also frequently mentioned that jobs are unnatural and breed dissatisfaction followed by discontent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our institutions have failed us and their deterioration has begun, which gives evidence of the crumbling of Western society. The West will eventually come to the realization that institutions are but poor substitutes for the responsibilities, obligations, and considerations of men, but not before they beg one last institution to save them—the government. When that last institution fails—and the cracks have already appeared in its walls—then people will have to fend for themselves by learning to work cooperatively outside of institutions and a new era of enlightenment will manifest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s take a look as some of the major institutions in our society. Our legal institutions have been revered since the beginning of Western society. From Draco, to Solon, to Justinian, to Napoleon, Western society has seen an ever-growing influence of legal institutions. The result in modern America is that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. We have a greater total number of men in prison than India and China combined. Only conquering armies were once capable of putting such a large percentage of the population in prison, and in America we do it willingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our medical institutions have developed protocols, which are liturgies developed by pharmaceutical companies in conjunction with our legal institutions and enforced by the high priests of a medical oligarchy that inflicts eternal damnation to those who do not comply. That means the loss of a license. The result has been a highly medicated society so in need of medicinal drugs that it is bankrupting the nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our vaunted educational institutions produce high school graduates that have to be tutored in how to fill out an employment application. A test given to high school graduates when given to college seniors 50 years later resulted in the college seniors scoring below the high school graduates. What this means in practical terms is that parents and grandparents who only graduated from high school know more than their offspring who are now in college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Western institutions are declining. All.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, Western man has become so dependent upon them that he cannot envision life without them. This is one of the points to be understood in the film Avatar. James Cameron created a green society without Western institutions. It had no purpose. There were no babies, no old people, no families, no religion, no worship, no temples, no growing of food, gathering of fruits, hunting for meat. While the intent of the film might have been good, the end result is that it depicted a society bereft of any concept of the propagation and preservation of the species and spiritual growth. Pandora depicted a vacuous society and represents Western thoughts inability to function without its institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until Western thought is reborn and frees itself from its myopic materialistic thinking it will remain a slave to its institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God did not establish institutions. He created men with the authority and the ability to create a society in harmony with its environment while promoting its spiritual growth. Men provide the environment and means for women to bring life into this world and nurture it as humankind progresses on its spiritual journey. Institutions can’t do that, and that’s why we are discontent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5848384015814450767?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5848384015814450767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5848384015814450767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/02/discontented-society.html' title='A DISCONTENTED SOCIETY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-575800321699057710</id><published>2010-01-22T02:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-22T02:21:17.813-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AVATAR – A GENDER PERSPECTIVE</title><content type='html'>The whole world seems to at least have heard of the film Avatar and every movie critic has offered his or her commentary concerning it. Heralded as a major breakthrough in film technology it will strongly influence the production of future films. It has shown sensitivity to people who live outside of cubicles (Western man loves living inside a cubicle) and have a rapport with nature. It indicated an awareness of the interconnectedness of all life, and as a space-age version of the old cowboy and Indian movie, it had the Indians win. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For all the technological advances and quasi-metaphysical insights it contained, this picture was devoid of an understanding of the purpose of human existence. As Jake is accepted into the community of the Ne’vi do we see any families? De we see any babies? Do we see any pregnant women? No. Because the Ne’vi women do not have teats! Isn’t that strange? Have you ever seen in National Geographic Magazine pictures of a native village anywhere in the world that did not include lactating women? Lactating women are designed to nurture babies into becoming children, an activity that consists of suckling their offspring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nurturing the race has become a diminishing concept Western society. Nowhere in our educational system or societal values do we see the creation of families as an objective. On the contrary we see increasing numbers of articles written by the new breed of “independent” women questioning the modern necessity of family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In accordance with this thinking director James Cameron has depicted the people of Pandora as an almost androgynous race with only slightly differing gender characteristics. In suggesting mates to Jake, Neytiri recommends one woman who is a fine archer and another who dances well (I didn’t notice any dancing women in the film or even any music). I wouldn’t want an archer for a mate. I like a soft and squeezable woman next to me who oozes nurturing love. Certainly children want and need the same and to a greater degree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Cameron’s androgynous society of Pandora, he does not give us a hint of the purpose of its existence or what it does when aliens are not attacking it. He is clear about the invaders; their objective in life is material accumulation and self-indulgence. What about the Ne’vi—those people who are so in tune with nature that they communicate with animals and trees—what objective or purpose do they have in life? Is it to just to become warriors and fight off some of the more vicious animals of their kingdom? Isn’t there something more?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that James Cameron can see. His own religious text calls for the first order of business upon the creation of Adam to get him a mate and to tell him clearly to “be fruitful and multiply.” The propagation and preservation of the species is a universal activity of the highest order. Not only do we find lactating females in native villages throughout the world, but among deer, monkeys, bears and all species of mammals as well. The nurturing love of lactating mothers sustains newborns. Not according to Western man who is continually trying to prove that he can make better milk for babies than mothers can. But then that should come as no surprise since he is well engaged in genetic engineering. If he can design a better apple than God can, certainly he should be able to design better milk than what comes out of mothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This being the case, androgyny seems like a logical evolution to James Cameron, whereas it is a devolution of natural behavior that leads to the eventual extinction of the species. However, James Cameron’s androgynous society confirms what I wrote recently concerning the mutation of the species. Women as a result of unnatural exercise are developing broader shoulders, more muscular bodies, narrower hips and smaller breasts. We also flood their minds with birth control methods. This mutation of their bodies and psyches makes them less desirable to mate with; consequently we have witnessed booming sales of chemical sexual stimulants to men.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only children that we see on Pandora occurs when the battle gets into high gear and their attempt to escape annihilation serves as a vehicle to arouse the emotions of the viewer. Emotion and sensation are staples for all Western entertainment. If there is no purpose in life, then self-indulgence prevails, which requires the arousing and satisfying of emotions and sensations. In watching the coming attractions in the theater while waiting for Avatar to begin, I saw five previews of films all of which were based on extreme violence. Then we wonder why the United States has the most violent boys in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The level of violence in Avatar could have been reduced significantly without endangering its limited plot. It could have shown a peaceful family life in Pandora that the viewer would have identified with and wanted to protect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purpose of human existence is the propagation and preservation of the species while on its path of spiritual unfoldment. This simple purpose requires the involvement of gender, support of the family and the tribe, and the worship of a supreme entity. In addition to lactating women villages also contain, marriage rituals, worship, singing, musical instruments and temples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pandora has no babies, no pregnant women, no lactating women, no elderly people, no marriage ceremony, no families, no songs, no musical instruments, no worship and no temples. Sounds like a society someone in a &lt;a href="http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;cubicle&lt;/a&gt; would dream up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director Cameron created a green androgynous Western culture and it rings hollow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-575800321699057710?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/575800321699057710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/575800321699057710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2010/01/avatar-gender-perspective.html' title='AVATAR – A GENDER PERSPECTIVE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3116580215574019917</id><published>2009-12-19T18:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-19T18:31:39.680-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WESTERN RELIGIOUSNESS &amp; THE NEW DECADE</title><content type='html'>Religions are feminine; they materialize and personalize impersonal and unseen spiritual truths. In theory religions represent the collective understanding of the populace regarding the teachings of prophets contained in various texts; in actuality they represent the belief system of those in charge of the religion. The less understanding a group has of matters spiritual, the greater the need for a belief system and the authority necessary to enforce that belief. Western materialistic thought has little understanding of matters spiritual (the unseen); therefore, its religious structure relies heavily upon authority, law, and punishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought develops religiousness in all its institutions. The medical field has little understanding of health; therefore, it developed a religious structure to sustain itself and enforce its beliefs. What the AMA refers to as a protocol is a liturgy prepared by drug companies in collusion with attorneys and enforced by the high priests of a medical oligarchy who demand absolute adherence to the liturgy with the threat of hell and eternal damnation to the physician who disobeys. That means the loss of his license.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government has little understanding of unseen ethics; therefore it has no basis for developing moral behavior. It focuses on legal and illegal, for it does not know right from wrong. It has created a huge religious institution called the American Bar Association, which has authority, laws, and punishment. Those who do not meet the criteria of the high priests are disbarred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The educational system has little understanding of knowledge, which is unseen; therefore, it focuses on information, which is seen and develops religiously oriented institutional structures based on authority, law, and punishment. It will only consider new information if it is based upon the approved liturgy (materialistic scientific approach) for developing and presenting this information. Those within the institutions who do not conduct themselves in accordance with the accepted academic liturgy face expulsion, or if tenured, ostracization. Those who attend these institutions will be fed a diet of rote learning and examined on the retention of the information fed to it. &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Western thought has little understanding of the unseen forces of nature; therefore, it ravages, pollutes, and distorts the environment. In order to administer the use of natural resources (that’s the name it gives to nature) it has made of it a commodity controlled by international finance. These moneyed interests not only bought Manhattan from the Indians, they bought the world; they own it and decide who lives where and how. They have created an international economic cartel that has its authority, laws, and punishment. They enforce a belief structure predicated on the power of money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every activity that Western thought engages in is based upon what it sees and believes; not upon what it doesn’t see or understand. The entire world of Western thought is a vast empire of religiously structured institutions based upon gross materialism, which in one way or another acts to enslave the populace.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The major manifestation of Western thought is the lack of understanding of the purpose of human existence. It does not “see” that we are here to propagate and preserve the species on our journey of spiritual growth. Therefore, it does not understand the purpose of gender and the patriarchal structure necessary to attain that objective. Instead Western thought believes in the finiteness of the material world and the unlimited opportunity to indulge oneself in it. This thinking has created a religious materialistic governing structure with a multiplicity of institutions with authority, laws, and punishment designed to propagate and enforce its belief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These institutions by nature attempt to expand their power. Ecumenism attempts to create a one-world religious order. National governments attempt to create a one-world social order. Financial institutions attempt to create a one-world financial order. The collective goal is to have an institution to govern every facet of life on an international basis. Western thought considers that to be absolute fairness; it does not realize that it is absolute subjugation of the people. It eliminates the necessity for discernment and replaces it with the necessity of absolute obedience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought has enslaved its society through the religiousness of its institutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Various men’s groups around the world (the Western world) are attempting to fight the punitive laws directed against men and family. They attempt to do it through the very institutions that emasculated them. These men’s rights groups are now fighting for parity with women. Imagine that; the Adam principle of the universe is begging the institutions that it created to treat them the same as women. This thinking leads to the impotence of society. “Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, all is not doom and gloom. The universe is always in divine order. What is natural endures; what isn’t doesn’t. The society and institutions created by Western thought are in their death throes. We are witnessing its demise in real time. As it collapses those that remain will be forced to see the thing behind the thing—the spirit behind the material world. Society will recognize its purpose to propagate and preserve the species while on its journey of spiritual development. Men will realize their obligation to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. Instead of focusing on religion, humankind will focus on spiritual understanding. Instead of focusing on the law it will realize its obligation, responsibilities, and considerations toward its brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, and sons and daughters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prior to the collapse and the enforced change that it will produce, a small and virile minority with more enlightened views will begin to make its presence felt. Those minorities of people are with us now, and their numbers are growing. They have been reborn; their thinking has changed. They consist of women happy to be women, and men cognizant of their manliness. Working together these men and women realize their responsibilities, obligations, and considerations to the human race. They rear their own children rather than having the state do it. They have ethics that govern their moral conduct. They recognize the impermanence of the material world and have an understanding of matters spiritual. They have an appreciation of nature and the interdependence of all life. These people will serve as the nucleus upon which the new era will be built. The small and growing minority with us that will meet that challenge is fulfilling the prophecy contained in Isaiah, which states that they will rebuild on the old foundations and will be known as the rebuilders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As this year draws to a close we welcome not only a new year but also a new decade, one that will usher in a period of change perhaps unparalleled in human history. We will see the institutionalization of human beings reach its peak and then crack and implode as the impotence it created gives way to the growing virile minority that will be the cornerstone of a new era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3116580215574019917?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3116580215574019917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3116580215574019917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/12/western-religiousness-new-decade.html' title='WESTERN RELIGIOUSNESS &amp; THE NEW DECADE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5727551698061058214</id><published>2009-12-07T13:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T13:56:14.892-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FEMININE &amp; MATERIALISTIC THINKING OF MEN’S RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS</title><content type='html'>A couple of days ago my E-mail address was added to a mailing list temporarily constructed so that every message sent went to all people on the list. This list was created to facilitate the dissemination of and get responses to the results of a case filed against the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and was shut down after a few hours. I didn’t originate any messages (though I responded to one sent to me) but I received 30 E-mails within a couple of hours. This group apparently consisted primarily of so-called Men’s Rights Organizations (MROs) or supporters of them. They complain, they even try to act tough occasionally, but they are completely ineffective in their objective to rectify what they perceive as wrongs heaped upon men by government. I bring some of the details of this incident to your attention for they clearly illustrate the feminine and materialistic thinking that pervades MROs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I state before proceeding with this essay that I have previously made my views known about the VAWA and its sponsor Senator Biden and will not go into it further here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;One of the 30 E-mails I received came from someone complaining about the stance that the MROs often take. Listed below is an unedited paragraph taken from that E-mail:&lt;br /&gt;Like it or not, the advent of the Industrial Revolution in 1820 and the ensuing Technological Revolution that has taken place, is the “Great Equalizer” between the sexes freeing them from Me Tarzan You Jane set the stage for women to assert their rights (especially during and after WWII where there was a group effort to defeat the Axis powers. Feminism has paved the way for men to become more aware of their gender roles and cultural expectations and create Maleism. I believe there should be a more egalitarian system where men and woman’s differences are acknowledged and honored. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This paragraph expressed the general tenor of the E-mail but was unsigned. I wanted to reply to the author but before I did I asked for the writer’s name, as I do not respond to people who do not leave their names. I also thought the writer was a woman given the supposedly positive effects that evolved from feminism stated in the message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The writer did respond and it was a man. Lest I misinterpreted the first E-mail he wrote the following paragraph in the second E-mail:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Technology is the great equalizer. No longer do men have to go into battle and be torn to pieces because they are physically stronger than women. Swords and knives have given way to guns, bombs, drone aircraft, tanks, etc., which can be operated by both men and women with equal ease. Anyone can pull a trigger or push a button to launch a rocket or fly a drone from the comfort of a base 1000’s of miles away from the war. The lack of a stable front line in Iraq has put women in combat situations equal to a man’s rather than being kept in the rear of a front line, yet another step toward gender equality. Women are proving their mettle in combat situations. Talk to a male solider whose butt was saved by a woman soldier about men being the authoritarians. They no doubt will have a different spin on things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two paragraphs serve as excellent examples of feminine materialistic Western thought, which I often refer to. “Technology is the great equalizer” and “the advent of the Industrial Revolution is the great equalizer,” reflects gross materialism. He cannot imagine that technology will pass away but life will remain, and that life is dependent upon patriarchy for its functioning and survival. Those statements reflect extreme arrogance as well for they imply the power of man supersedes the power of God or nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also in referring to rights the writer does not reflect on where rights come from. What is the power that defines a right and bestows it? It must come from outside of oneself, hence all the efforts of the MROs to gain “rights” through legal action. That’s pure feminine thinking. They believe the power is outside of them instead of within them; therefore, they are victims. If only they could get the government to change the laws then their lives will be better. There are no natural rights in this world; there are obligations, responsibilities, and considerations. Once men realize that power resides within they will understand that change can only be made outside of the government and the economy; however, that requires another trait not found within the confines of feminine materialistic Western thought and that is conceptual understanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They do not have the concept that all movement depends upon an assertive influence acting upon a receptive entity. They do not realize that there is one assertive force in the universe and it is called the masculine gender. They do not realize that the feminine gender thinks in personal, materialistic and immediate terms because those traits enable it to nurture the race. By the way “nurture” never seems to enter the lexicon of MROs or feminists. They do not realize that women deal in the seen and men deal in the unseen. They do not have the concept that the unseen God created the material universe and the unseen conceptual thinking of men created the material world that sits upon it. They do not possess the concept that man’s primary obligation is the propagation and preservation of the species on its journey of spiritual unfoldment, and that his specific responsibility is to provide the means and the environment for women to bring forth life and nurture it. They do not ask what the attraction would be for the opposite sex in an egalitarian society and what its purpose would be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This thinking has permeated Western thought since the days of Plato; he believed that men and women were the same and that children should be turned over to the State to be raised. That’s what we have today. The author of the above paragraphs in lauding women in combat makes no mention of who is taking care of their children, and “care” is the most that they get today, for nurturing disappeared when the family was destroyed. I am also amazed at his equanimity of thought as he narrates how women are trained to destroy life instead of bring it into existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly, the author wrote in his E-mail to me that in looking over the Men’s Action website he determined that I am angry. In the 18 years that I have promoted my message of gender and patriarchy I have never been called angry by a woman. A few feminists might have gotten angry with me, but they did not call me angry. Only men have called me angry, and a particular group of men at that. Those who do not have the courage to assume their manly responsibilities of providing for a wife and family or those who cannot accept their contribution to a failed marriage call me angry. They are intimidated by my message, and I do feel for them. I have friends and acquaintances in that category. They were usually raised in dysfunctional homes and were not prepared to cope with the responsibilities of manhood. Part of any movement to rebuild society and the family requires rebuilding the man as the first step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This same group of men that considers me to be angry also asks me what the women say about my message. They wonder if I get in trouble with them. I will tell you what the women say. I have E-mails from women around the world and they support me and nurture me. They are happy to see a man that supports family and the natural relationship of men to women. I wonder if the current crop of MROs gets letters like that. If there is any question about my feelings towards women let them look at the recent series of seven videos I made titled The Natural Woman, especially part 3 in which I mention the commitment I made to women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my references to Western thought I have never referred to the terms white, black, Asian or Hispanic. People of all colors, ethnicities, and religions have been indoctrinated in and accept Western thought. The MROs, liberals, democrats, conservatives, republicans, independents, progressives, socialists, and libertarians all have one trait in common—materialistic myopic Western thought. Political science is a study of forms of government created by Western thought that attempt to substitute for patriarchy and fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To change society requires a change in thinking. Unless a man is reborn, nothing will change. Men need to crawl out of the restrictive confines of materialistic Western thought and recognize their responsibility to the propagation and preservation of the human race on its spiritual journey. They also have to develop the vitality and courage to fulfill that responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5727551698061058214?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5727551698061058214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5727551698061058214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/12/feminine-materialistic-thinking-of-mens.html' title='FEMININE &amp; MATERIALISTIC THINKING OF MEN’S RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4860929003730328171</id><published>2009-12-02T10:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-02T10:37:59.299-08:00</updated><title type='text'>INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND AFGHANISTAN</title><content type='html'>A few days ago my youngest son asked me when the Republican Party became the party of war and the Democrat Party became the party of peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could see the reason for his question; democrat presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson got us into Word War II, Korea, and Vietnam respectively. The democrats were known as the party of international involvement and fiscal irresponsibility. However, republican Reagan escalated the Cold War and outspent his predecessor by a wide margin; Bush Sr. got us into Iraq the first time and Bush Jr. with republican control of both houses set a record for deficit spending and the length of a “peacetime” military conflict.  The party affiliation of the President does not have an effect on the conduct of international and fiscal policy, and therefore it should not have come as any surprise that President Obama last night chose to continue the same international posture and fiscal irresponsibility as his predecessors when he announced further military escalation in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America has been on a wartime economy for more than 70 years and during that time the national debt as apportioned per person has grown exponentially as have the laws that undermine the freedom of the people. For all practical purposes we have become a police state domestically and an instrument for a one-world government internationally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The feminine materialistic nature of Western thought lends its actions to an aristocratic posture based on financial power. Whether manifest destiny, colonialism, apartheid, slavery, or segregation, the impetus of Western governmental action always imposes its will upon others through material control of their environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mystics say “as above so below and as within so without,” and this same aristocratic control has now manifested within Western society. An aristocracy of power created by international wealth now controls Western governments. It makes no difference which party ascends to power; the end result of their governance will not change. Whether in the United Kingdom, the European mainland, or the United States there has been a steady march towards one-world socialistic government based on repressive laws that control the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the United States we have a president who after one year since his election has yet to deliver on any of his campaign promises. He can’t. He’s not his own man; he’s a little wind-up doll with marching orders programmed by a controlling financial aristocracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Control by an international financial aristocracy is the natural outgrowth of a society that does not know its purpose in life, that has no spiritual understanding and looks upon universal existence as an opportunity for self-aggrandizement and the accumulation of material wealth. Such a society will ultimately lead to control of the world’s resources and finances by a few. Such a society will also ultimately implode as a result of its inability to sustain itself morally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Society will only change when its thinking changes; when it recognizes the spiritual dimension of human existence and the earthly obligation to propagate and preserve the species; when it understands the principle of gender and the patriarchal structure that provides support for family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Society will change when men realize their obligation to provide the environment and the means for women to bring forth life and nurture it as humankind proceeds on its path of spiritual unfoldment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama and the Western world continue on its programmed voyage to a one-world financial aristocracy. You don’t have to make the trip with them. You can get off the ship now and start living your life differently. Why wait until the ship sinks and lifeboats are few and unstable? Chart a new course for yourself now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4860929003730328171?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4860929003730328171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4860929003730328171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/12/international-policy-and-afghanistan.html' title='INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND AFGHANISTAN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5648601170431353410</id><published>2009-11-16T07:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T07:17:33.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A CLOSER LOOK AT OUR MISSION STATEMENT</title><content type='html'>The mission statement of Men’s Action calls for fostering a more natural way of life for humankind. This statement consists of four objectives, and probably the least known is Objective IV, which reads, “Foster respect for the environment and a lifestyle that results in health and well-being.” The strategies for attaining this objective follow: Promote a toxic free environment, Support organic farming, Promote vegetarianism, and Promote holistic health. Some—if not most—readers will question what this objective has to do with gender, patriarchy, family, or societal issues. This objective and the strategies necessary to attain it have a fundamental relationship to and form an intrinsic part of the lifestyle necessary to sustain the race while on its journey of spiritual growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first strategy calls for promoting a toxic free environment. Toxic describes every facet of the Western world. The pollution of the air, water, food, and thinking has created toxic conditions in every form of life on the planet. Pesticide and herbicide residue can be found in the glands of all mammals and especially man. Respiratory ailments have risen appreciably as have chronic diseases, all of which are symptoms of toxemia caused by pollution of one sort or another. The pollution of the environment at ever-increasing rates and in a variety of ways has cause an increased incidence of old diseases and the development of new diseases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men now develop prostate issues in their 30’s, and heart conditions in their 40’s; diseases once identified with old age. Alzheimer’s disease has begun to affect people as young as 60 years of age. Female disorders such as breast and cervical cancer, thyroid malfunction, yeast infections, and depression now approach epidemic proportions. Hearing disorders among young adults have increased exponentially as a result of the noise pollution caused by the use of various electronic sound transmitters. Increasing numbers of children have diabetes. All of these ailments are manifestations of toxicity caused by mass pollution of the environment. Promoting a toxic free environment will serve as a step to a more healthful society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second strategy calls for supporting organic farming, which to some degree represents an extension of the first strategy. Organic farms do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides that pollute the land and rivers. They also grow food with a high nutritional content and energy levels relatively free of unnatural impurities. One reason for the advanced age of people now in their 70’s to 90’s stems from the fact that all the food eaten in their formative years was organic and pollution free. Those who have diabetes in their teens, respiratory ailments in their 20’s, prostate issues in their 30’s, and heart conditions in their 40’s will not see advanced age. We are rapidly developing into a society in which parents outlive their children. Organically grown foods would cut down on the toxicity in people’s bodies and contribute to a more healthful life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third strategy calls for promoting vegetarianism. Close to 10 million Americans adhere to a vegetarian diet. No longer considered a fad, vegetarianism has a growing following in America and in some European countries. Many reasons account for this trend including improved health, higher nutritional yield per acre of farming, less pollution, and compassion for animals. There is another advantage to not eating animal products. Most meat and poultry comes from animals raised in extremely confining and unsanitary conditions that cause nervousness, anxiety, and suffering. Humans ingest the negative vibrations that dwell within these animals when they eat their flesh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not necessary to be a vegetarian to function in a positive manner but it is a goal towards which we are evolving. As a person rids himself of various toxins such as caffeine, smoking, and alcohol he feels better and acts better. He has no desire to return to his former habits and their debilitating effects. So it is with the removal of every negative sheath of behavior as we advance through life. There is nothing to argue about. When you are ready for the next step take it, until then live in accordance with your values, but be open to change.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last strategy calls for the promotion of holistic health, a term that has various connotations and interpretations in our society. Some prefer the term alternative healing. Whatever the term or definition, humankind has taken care of itself and survived in good health long before the arrival of Western thought and the AMA. It did so with methods of healing that used the energy of the universe along with various poultices and herbal ministrations. Western medicine’s materialistic orientation can only deal with effects. It does not realize that behind every effect there is a cause and if that cause is removed the effect will disappear as well. The major cause of our illnesses comes from not adhering to the first three strategies of Objective IV of our mission statement. The fourth strategy deals with the malfunction that occurs in the human body from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that the four strategies are not “new age” concepts, but practices prophets and spiritual leaders have promoted since antiquity. In the book of Genesis we are told that the fruit of the bush that bears seed, and the fruit of the tree that bears seed were made for man to eat. That’s vegetarianism. Jesus healed the sick and taught his disciples to do likewise. That’s holistic healing. Jeremiah made clear that God provided all that we need and Paul informed us that there is no single thing that we have not received. We cannot improve upon what God has made. That’s a basis for a toxic free environment and organic farming.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God created a perfect universe. Our challenge is not to improve upon what God has created but to learn how to live within that creation. Doing so is living naturally. That’s the mission statement of Men’s Action: foster a natural way of life for humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have written frequently that the purpose of the masculine gender is to provide the environment and means for the feminine gender to bring forth life and nurture it. Objective IV serves as one of the steps in attaining that goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to change society we must first change the way we think as individuals. The way we live expresses our thoughts and motivates others to change. We must be examples of our beliefs as best we can, and by doing so we will be on our way to changing this materialistic society into one that is in harmony with the universe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5648601170431353410?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5648601170431353410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5648601170431353410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/11/closer-look-at-our-mission-statement.html' title='A CLOSER LOOK AT OUR MISSION STATEMENT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2613741642015771896</id><published>2009-11-10T17:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T17:50:43.336-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE LACK OF NURTURING IN WESTERN SOCIETY</title><content type='html'>I have repeatedly stated that the purpose of the masculine gender is to provide the environment and means for the feminine gender to bring forth life and nurture it. Western society rarely uses the term nurture. Instead, it uses the term care and refers to those in need of it as children, aged, indigent, homeless, poor, under-privileged, hungry, uneducated, sick, infirm, orphaned, handicapped, and jobless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “care” expressed for others in Western society focuses on the need to sustain them physically. Requests for care for the needy can be heard in the rhetoric of those in the pulpit, in politics, and in various humanitarian and community organizations. The solution recommended by all of them requires contact with the appropriate institution that has the facilities and structure to provide for the specific needs of those requiring help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The institution-oriented nature of Western thought has made the institutionalized care of humans a cultural export. Day care centers, orphanages, old age homes, mental asylums, homes for unwed mothers, and homeless centers are all of Western origin.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The institutions that have the most complete range of services including provisions for food, shelter, recreational facilities, medical care, vocational opportunities, and educational facilities are prisons; however, prisoners do not seem to be particularly happy. On the other hand, people on the outside of the prisons do not seem to be happy either. Depression is running rampant for people inside the cages and outside of them. Could the reason be that the institutionalized care of people is inhuman and unnatural? Could it be that institutionalization—which is a prison mentality—does not make for happy people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gross materialism of Western thought has reduced human needs to material considerations even though the great Master has stated clearly that man does not live by bread alone. Nurturing can only begin when society understands that truism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the difference between walking in the doorway of your home or the entrance to a prison cell? The prison might have more material facilities than the home. Is it freedom? Then what is the difference between walking into your home or your barracks on the army post or your cabin aboard a naval vessel? Army posts and naval vessels offer all sorts of amenities free or at low cost that are not normally found in the home or in small communities. Prisons, army posts, naval vessels, universities, and institutions provide for material needs and desires, sometimes better than the home does, but still we all yearn to be in the home. What draws a person to his or her home?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The home contains special attention transmitted by a loving wife and dedicated mother to all within her jurisdiction. She transmutes spiritual love into physical expression. She infuses all her actions and activities with unconditional love. When she cooks she adds an ingredient to all her food not found in stores; it’s called love. When she prepares a meal she envisions the effect it will have upon those whom she loves. When she does the laundry she adds love to every fold. When she makes the beds she tucks the sheets with love. This special attention is called nurturing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women who dedicate their lives to nurturing tend to be very happy, and free of severe emotional issues. They exude love and in turn they are filled with divine love. They create a loving aura in their homes that draws members of the family to it. The warm and caring environment of the home affects all who reside there and helps them to live a more relaxed, productive, and caring life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nurturing woman needs a safe and secure environment in which to function; mother’s milk can only flow freely when she is safe and secure. Family provides a secure environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately mother no longer has a safe and secure environment in which to function. Government has eliminated the authority of the natural provider of a safe environment—man. Women now are “independent” and on their own. They can work, vote, own property and provide for themselves. The children whom they once nurtured have been turned over to the state for “care,” not nurturing. Her children live in an institutionalized environment for most of their childhood and are conditioned for further institutionalization upon adulthood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These conditions make for unhappy women with the result that their primary health condition is debilitating depression. The children raised in institutionalized care aren’t doing well either. America now has the most violent boys in the world, which makes them prime candidates for penal institutions, where close to three million men now live. Three million girls now suffer from depression and close to one million grade school boys take Ritalin on a prescribed basis. The World Health Organization announced that the number one health issue of England, the United States and Canada is mental illness. The institutionalized non-nurtured world of Western society isn’t functioning very well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is only one species of human life designed for nurturing; it’s called woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only natural institution for a woman to live in is called family. Men make families. Men with authority commensurate with their responsibilities make families. Male authority derives from the natural patriarchal structure of the universe. No patriarchy—no real men. No real men—no families. No families—no nurturing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we want to change the conditions of our society we must change the thinking that caused them. To treat the differences in gender as similars is an aberration of nature that inhibits both genders from functioning as they were designed to do. Men must take the initiative and rebuild society along patriarchal lines. Any structure other than patriarchy ultimately results in strong governments that institutionalize the care of people, which dehumanizes them and enslaves them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you ready to take the steps that will provide the environment necessary for women to nurture the race? If so, then let me hear from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2613741642015771896?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2613741642015771896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2613741642015771896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/11/lack-of-nurturing-in-western-society.html' title='THE LACK OF NURTURING IN WESTERN SOCIETY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3517322589307709490</id><published>2009-10-15T12:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T12:48:04.505-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IGNORANCE WHEN EMPOWERED BECOMES EVIL</title><content type='html'>Everybody knows something but nobody knows every thing. The purpose of earthly existence is to learn and grow. To assist in this process prophets serve as teachers to help replace ignorance with knowledge Enlightened masters travel about his world teaching and training but not judging. They emit love as they go about providing enlightenment. The scriptures instruct us to not judge so that we in turn will not be judged. People don’t like to be reminded of what they are doing wrong, they respond more favorably when they are instructed in how to do right. We are all in the big classroom of life and learning at our own pace; however, when there is a collective ignorance that becomes empowered and then imposes its will upon others then ignorance becomes evil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Collective Western thought has resulted in empowered ignorance. It does not understand the purpose of gender differences or the concept of patriarchy, and it is imposing this ignorance upon the people, resulting in the mutation of the race. This empowered ignorance is evil; a very deep evil. I have become more aware of the magnitude of this evil the past couple of weeks as a result of two activities. The first has to do with the correspondence I receive from those who have chosen to use the legal system to redress gender issues in family court. Whether in California, Colorado, or New Zealand the relationship between men and women is worsening dramatically. The adversarial positions are deepening. Men and women look upon each other as the enemy. The natural relationship of gender consists of working together towards a common goal. Never before in history has there been such a corruption in gender relationships. Empowered ignorance perpetuates these conditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second activity that has honed my awareness of this evil is the video series I am making titled The Natural Woman in which I show the effects of the body, mind and psyche of women of Western thought and its environment. We are already up to part 4 of the series and I ask that you all view these videos. Women’s bodies are mutating—they are getting broader at the shoulders, narrower in the hips, their breasts are getting smaller and they bodies are becoming hardened. This is an unnatural design and not one conducive to bearing and raising children. It has come about by the gross ignorance of Western thought, which empowered is creating a great evil upon the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These physical mutations are but surface manifestation of the mutation of the female body. The common age at which menarche (a woman’s first period) occurs is when a human female is about 12 years old. Among women gymnasts the age more commonly occurs at 14 and 15 and sometimes as late as 17. A woman’s body begins producing estrogen at menarche in order to provide for the various changes that are bringing her into womanhood and preparing the body for pregnancy. The bodies of these teenage athletes are not developing properly and they are more prone to suffer from osteoporosis at a younger age. This condition exists among figure skaters as well. Did you ever see a gymnast, figure skater, or swimmer with big teats? Why not? Their bodies have mutated; they have been inhibited from developing along natural lines. Instead of big teats they all have broad shoulders. Have you ever noticed the common wearing of bandages and supports by young female gymnasts? Their bodies are being stressed to the breaking point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course these conditions do not disturb the Western mind, which supports genetic engineering. If Western thought believes it can design a better apple than God did then designing a better female body than God did is not that big a leap. The gross ignorance of this materialistic thinking has produced an evil of such magnitude that it has not yet registered on the collective consciousness of the populace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These physical mutations occurring in the female body accompany mental mutations as well. Since they have bodies no longer compatible with nurturing they are less inclined to nurture. They dump their children into pre-school programs when they are still in diapers. They not only have no remorse about not nurturing their children, they brag about how early they placed their children in these programs. The state has taken over the “care” of children (it can never nurture them) while their mothers get hooked up to the treadmill of production under the guise of self-development. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poorly nurtured children also mutate. America now has the most violent boys in the world. Three million girls now suffer from depression. Ten million women suffer from debilitating depression. The race is mutating and going mad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that it was to address this collective ignorance and the evil it produced that enlightened personages chastised the people. Jesus said of John the Baptist “There has never appeared anyone greater than he.” Yet John called the people hypocrites and snakes. Why these words of judgment from a man who belonged to the mystical and peaceful order of Essenes that foretold of the coming of the Master? Why did the loving God have Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah wander about Israel chastising the people for their unnatural behavior? I think it was to wake the people up from their empowered ignorance and to show them the evil that it created. The Koran also speaks of the evil of empowered ignorance. It states, “God’s curse is on the wrongdoers, those who debar others from the path of God and seek to make it crooked.” Paul said, “The greatest sinner of all is he who makes another sin.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most ignorant act of Western thought occurred when Western man willing turned over to the State his natural authority and responsibility for the well-being of women and children.  When historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists review Western society they will be astounded at the depth of such ignorance. Once Western man turned over to government his God given authority and responsibility he created in the government a great evil that destroyed the family, eliminated liberty and mutated the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can a man who reads this essay and understands it sit back and do nothing? Can he live in the middle of the mutation of the species and ignore it? I hope not. The making of change will require a change in thinking. Men must be reborn into a more spiritual and less material way of thinking. I hope that you are one that can no longer sit by and watch the mutation and deterioration of the species. You know where we are. The rest is up to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the bottom of this essay there is a link, which I ask that you look at. It is an essay titled Should Women Play Sports. It was written from the Christian perspective, but I feel the reasoning in it is valid in any religion. Take a good look at the expressions of the women as they compete with one another. Do you think they can naturally nurture the race?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens Page/masculine_women.htm" href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens%20Page/masculine_women.htm"&gt;http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Womens%20Page/masculine_women.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; E.G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. Don’t for get to review the videos The Natural Woman on our website. E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3517322589307709490?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3517322589307709490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3517322589307709490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/10/ignorance-when-empowered-becomes-evil.html' title='IGNORANCE WHEN EMPOWERED BECOMES EVIL'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-9220214736106397453</id><published>2009-09-17T18:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T18:24:56.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NEWSWEEK – THERE ARE NO SEX DIFFERENCES</title><content type='html'>The September 14, 2009 issue of Newsweek contains an article by its Science Editor Sharon Begley titled, Pink Brain, Blue Brain—Claims of sex differences fall apart, which she bases on the information contained in a book written by Lise Elliot titled, Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps—And What We can Do About it. The troublesome gap according to the article is believing that there are differences between men and women. You heard right. These two women want to assure us that sex differences are socialized and that there really isn’t any difference between those who have penises and those who have wombs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does one respond to such a preposterous assertion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To respond to it gives it credence. Her article did not contain one conceptual viewpoint. That alone would indicate the difference between male and female thinking. Instead of conceptual thought the book relied on 46 pages of bibliography and apparently a mountain of empirical data. I’m not going into a challenge of the article, but I’m confident that one day when historians review the collapse of Western society they will consider it to be a natural consequence of a people who did not know the difference between those who have testis and those who have teats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will, however, address two areas of activity related to that article. Firstly, two well-educated scientifically oriented women in a major international news magazine bring us this supposedly enlightening news, not some radical feminist writer published in an avant-garde publication. Do you think that the publishers and moneyed interests that control Newsweek really believe that gender differences are socialized? This article reminds me of the one written by Jodie T. Allen that appeared in the June 23, 2003 edition of U.S. News &amp;amp; World Report titled Are Men Obsolete? Do you think that Mort Zuckerman, the powerful billionaire and owner of U.S. News, and the owners of Newsweek, Time, et al, really doesn’t know the difference between men and women?  If so, why do all the major media carry advertisements drenched with sexual motivation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ads directed at women appeal to the “ME” aspect of their personalities. By going to a certain store or subscribing to a specific service a woman will become more fulfilled, desirable, and important. In the case of men the sex in advertising is more blatant; the promise of sexual fulfillment sells automobiles, cell phones, and nutritional supplements. If those who control the media believe in a genderless society how come they spend so much money to motivate the sexes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s done for financial gain and societal control. The suppression of male authority and feminine nurturing has led to the dissolution of the family and the control of society by the government. Those that support the government and control it, reap fat profits from sexual exploitation through advertising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second area of activity that I will address deals with the mutation of the race. We learned recently that the South African woman runner of recent acclaim is really a hermaphrodite. While hermaphrodites have existed since the beginning of time the mass and self-imposed mutation of the human species is a recent phenomena—if it weren’t recent we wouldn’t be here. The toxic air, water and food that we ingest accounts for a large part of the mutations developing in the race; however, the genderless philosophy and the resultant activities that it encourages lead to mutations of the body, mind, and psyche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women are getting broader shoulders, narrower hips, smaller busts, and more sinuous flesh. This is contrary to the way they have been designed, which was to have wider hips than shoulders, large busts, and soft flesh in order to bring forth life and nurture the race. These mutations are affecting women’s ability and desire to propagate the species. Since these mutations are not natural the response on women has been an incidence of depression and female disorders that is beyond epidemic proportions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What then are the women to do? What can they do? They are responsive, adaptable, accommodating and passive. The ethical standards that men established for their well-being have been removed and the family structure necessary to their secure functioning has been destroyed. Women are responding to the media and the government, there is nothing else for them to respond to—men have been emasculated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to better the lot of women their environment must be changed and only men can do it; however, the majority of men have been neutered. This leaves women and society in a quandary. What women can do is pray that the divine power will motivate Real Men to rise up and start to assume their responsibilities, obligations, and considerations to the race. The men are going to have to be reborn. They must come to the realization that providing the environment and means for women to nurture the race is their paramount concern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time to stop the whining and take action especially among the Men’s Rights Organizations and conservatives. Its time to change the focus from attacking women and defending the system, to caring for women and attacking the system that created this genderless society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In keeping with that objective I am launching a video series on youtube titled The Natural Woman, which will discuss the environment conducive for the well-being of women and the negative surroundings into which they have been manipulated and how it affects them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To successfully bring this message to the public requires your participation. If you have not yet subscribed to our website please do so now. It only takes 30 seconds and can be done by clicking on the subscribe button just under my picture on the home page. Next subscribe to my videos on youtube.com. You can find these videos listed under, mensaction, patriarchy, and Elder George. Spread the word to your friends and acquaintances to watch and subscribe to these videos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank you for your participation and trust you will enjoy the first &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTwL45YNFRA"&gt;video.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-9220214736106397453?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9220214736106397453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9220214736106397453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/09/newsweek-there-are-no-sex-differences.html' title='NEWSWEEK – THERE ARE NO SEX DIFFERENCES'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5383320399566169725</id><published>2009-09-10T06:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T06:48:58.267-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE WRONG TRIP</title><content type='html'>At a subway station in downtown Manhattan a man handed me a religious tract titled The Long Trip. The small 12-page tract contained a cartoon story illustrating the life experiences of a man named John from birth until death. He gets married, has a couple of kids and becomes deeply enmeshed in the “rat race” of modern life. They pass a man holding up a sign The Good News and his wife says “Hold it John, We need some good news.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I interrupt the description to point out that the person who recognizes the need for change is not John, the man, husband and father, but the woman, wife, and mother. Getting back to the story in the tract, the man holding the sign explains there is only one way to heaven, and that is the narrow path…and Jesus is that way. The wife and children choose the way but John hesitates. His wife calls to him, “Come on, John.” The children say, “Aren’t you coming daddy?” Daddy says, I’m not ready for this, I’ll think about it.” The story ends with the wife and two children saved and John going to hell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The religious tract skillfully promoted the modern philosophy extolled by all communications media and advertising—men are buffoons and women know best. Think of how this message resonates with unwed mothers who now comprise 40% of American motherhood and close to 50% of European motherhood. They already believe that children don’t need a masculine presence in the home and this tract adds religious reinforcement to that thinking. I wrote the minister of the church that distributed that tract and suggested a more appropriate title would be The Wrong Trip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tract illustrates the results of Western feminine and materialistic thought. The feminine psyche requires direction from outside of itself—that viewpoint is rarely challenged. The point of contention is where that direction should come from, an example being The famous Virginia Slims advertising “You’ve come a long way baby,” which implies that smoking expresses freedom from the domination of husbands and fathers. Female smoking eventually increased the incidence of long cancer in women, which resulted in the starting of a decades-long campaign against the cigarette companies and the establishing of various laws limiting or prohibiting smoking. For the government to ban smoking at a cost of billions of dollars is called freedom but for husbands—at no charge—to prohibit the mothers of their children from smoking is called female suppression. Tragically this viewpoint has received public acceptance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;European thought will always look outside of itself for solutions to its problems; therefore, it will always create institutions to deal with them. It gives these institutions complete power and eventually becomes enslaved by the very institutions that it created. Western thought has created all forms of government and all of them result in the enslavement of people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the natural patriarchal order the female attempts to mate with the strongest, most courageous, and devoted male who will provide the secure environment that will enable her to bring forth life and nurture it. The duty of the male—its paramount purpose—is to provide that environment and the means for the nurturing of the race. Western thought has turned that function over to the state with the result being disempowerment of the male, destruction of the family, loss of protection for women, and neglect of children. I have addressed these issues in other essays, and will maintain the focus of this essay on the spiritual basis of patriarchy and the Western penchant for creating institutions—including religious institutions—that destroy the family and enslave the masses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Biblical allegory of Eve being born of Adam’s rib illustrates that all things and all movement come from the masculine principle, there is no place else for anything to come from. Also, have you ever wondered why the serpent spoke only to Eve? She represented the receptive feminine entity. With the protective influence of Adam not present the serpent said, “Eve baby, I have a deal for you,” and seduced her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many centuries later when the Magi saw a sign in the heavens that a master was coming, they got on their camels and rode to Judea where they inquired as to who was born about that time. When Herod heard about this he had all the male children that had been born in the two-year period up to the time of the arrival of the Magi killed. There was no doubt in Herod’s mind that the Master would be a man, and he knew as the serpent did, that without the opposition of the male he could do as he pleased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revelations contains the story of a woman pregnant with a male child and Satan in the form of a dragon waiting to devour it. The dragon knew that with the male child and its seed out of the way, there could be nothing to oppose him. Upon its birth the male child is snapped up and brought to heaven while its mother takes refuge in the wilderness as the fight between good and evil commences. The issue between good and evil or any other aspect of control entails the necessity of isolating the masculine influence and neutering it. There is no other assertive influence in the physical universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul  states “The man is not of the woman but the woman of the man.” This truism is also contained in the Koran, which states “He created you from a single being, then from that single being He created its mate.” Both of these statements are in accord with recent scientific findings that only the male contains the Y chromosome, therefore the male cannot come from the female. The motivating force of the physical universe can only come from itself, there is no place else to come from. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the first book of the Bible to the last book and many places in between we find examples of the principle of gender and the patriarchal structure. What accounts for the clergy not understanding this truth?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The clergy, like their non-clerical brothers, confine themselves to feminine materialistic thought, which looks outside of itself instead of inside of itself, contrary to Jesus’ teachings. He said, “My kingdom is not of the world.” He further stated, “The kingdom of God is not in one place or another, the kingdom of God is within.” Those statements were not understood 2,000 years ago nor do they receive better understanding today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the 99% of the readers of this article who are of European ancestry please recognize that your personal, family, vocational, professional, and societal lives will not reach contentment until there is a realization of the inner being. It is this inner being that controls the outer world. To expect the outer world to make the inner being content is to court disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought by continually seeking to improve its lot by changing the outer world creates institutions that enslave it. The elder President Bush actively promotes the New World Order as an international government of law. Laws enslave people. The more people are in tune with the spirit the fewer laws they need. Jesus did not add laws. He gave the great universal law—love thy neighbor as thyself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through spiritual understanding people come to the realization that they have responsibilities, obligations, and considerations to give to human kind. The more these traits are practiced the fewer laws are required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting back to the tract that opened this essay, by debasing and neutering the authority of the male the woman and children had to go to another authority for their survival—the church. By debasing and neutering the authority of the male society has to go to another authority for its survival—the government. Government and church are the two institutions Western man has had to wrestle with since the beginning of European society 2,500 years ago. They are institutions of his creation to which he continually gives unlimited authority through law and then finds himself fighting to free himself of their clutches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By realizing the power within—by being reborn—man will no longer put his dependency on institutions. Instead he will realize the spiritual power within that enables him to control the world without. He will realize that it is spirit that controls the material world and not the reverse. He will come to the realization of his manly responsibility to provide the environment and the means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. The structure that enables him to do that is called patriarchy; it is based on love and understanding and does not require law for its functioning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5383320399566169725?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5383320399566169725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5383320399566169725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/09/wrong-trip.html' title='THE WRONG TRIP'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-9178796724983821049</id><published>2009-08-29T16:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-29T16:33:14.123-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE KENNEDY LEGACY</title><content type='html'>The passing of Ted Kennedy will elicit commentary from all the media regardless of their political persuasion for he lived in the public eye in many ways and for a long time. I am offering here my views as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a human being he is my brother and whatever shortcomings he may have had they represented the karma that he had to work out on his journey of spiritual unfoldment. All men and women have their imperfections yet receive God’s love. They are worthy of the love of their fellow man as well. No one wants to be remembered for his failings. I wish Ted Kennedy well wherever he is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said that, I feel that a person of prominence in society needs to be held to a higher standard than the ordinary citizen. He is remembered not as a person but for the position of prominence he held. During World War II General Eisenhower had an affair with his secretary when he was stationed in England as the head of the European Theater of Operations. He decided he would divorce Mamie and marry his secretary. When he told General Marshal of his plans his response was, “You’re a general; generals don’t get divorced.” That was the end of the matter. Ike and Mamie stayed married until death did them part. Positions of prominence had standards of conduct and living that accompanied them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Senator Kennedy had more than a position of prominence; he was an elected official. People who run for office ask to be judged; it’s the basis of their being elected. Some will say that elected officials should be judged on the issues and not on personal matters. Issues focus on material accomplishment in one way or another whereas personal matters reflect character and morals derived from ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Material considerations have come to matter most in our country. Richard L. Block, the last Chairman of Inland Steel Corp stated in a magazine article that corporations over-emphasize the importance of personal integrity in the hiring of executives. He indicated that companies can be insured to cover embezzlement but they can’t get insurance on incompetence. I guess the boys at Enron took Block’s message to heart. Inland Steel isn’t around anymore either. Nevertheless, the post World War II thinking of focusing on material accomplishment in lieu of moral behavior took root and flourished. The Kennedys—and Ted Kennedy in particular—personified this thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harvard University expelled Ted Kennedy for cheating on an exam. He had a friend take a test in Spanish in his name. Harvard later reinstated Ted probably in part because of the power represented by the immense wealth of Joe Kennedy. When each of his children reached adulthood they were given an annual “allowance” of 10 million dollars; even for rich people that was a lot of money 50 years ago&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from the blemish on his record caused by being caught cheating, and the negative comparisons to his over-achieving brothers, Ted Kennedy was an active collegian participating in sports and in various extra curricular matters. He played a big part in the campaign to get his brother John elected president and was a worthy campaigner and won handily when he ran for the Senate. However, matters of morals and ethics would plague him all of his life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mary Jo Kopechne tragedy resulted in a suspension of his driver’s license. If that incident had happened to the average person there would have been a jury trail. Again the Kennedy fortune came to the rescue and quashed any legal activity against him in addition to making a multi-million dollar settlement with Mary Jo’s parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frequently such incidents can awaken in a man the realization of the error of his ways and cause him to start life anew. This did not happen to Ted Kennedy, whose womanizing continued unabated and whose drinking bordered on alcoholism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His sexual conduct represented the norm of the Kennedys. President Jack had two women on the government payroll whose primary purpose was to satisfy his sexual desires. He shocked Prime Minister Macmillan of England at a meeting by saying “Unless I get it every day I get a headache.” It was no secret that President Jack and his brother Robert both had trysts with Marilyn Monroe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marital fidelity did not exist in the Kennedy compound. Nor did ethics. The Kennedys represented a new era in American thought; it focused on materiality and self-indulgence. It symbolized a disregard for convention, tradition, and the social mores necessary to maintain the moral standards of society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kennedy power and influence set the stage for Great Society Legislation, which Ted Kennedy strongly supported. The sum total of the effects of the legislation of the past 50 years has been a worsening in the conditions that it was designed to improve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will briefly address two pieces of such legislation. The first, called Civil Rights Legislation was ostensibly designed to give African-Americans an equal playing field in the attainment of the rewards of the American way of life. By including women’s rights in this legislation it served as a means of emasculating the male and increasing government power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 400 years of slavery and segregation the unwed motherhood rate of African-Americans reached 25%, a remarkably low figure and a testament to the inherent extended family culture in their society. After only 40 years of Great Society legislation the rate of unwed motherhood reached 70% and in some pockets such as Harlem it reached 90%. Harlem serves as an example of the de facto matriarchy that results from the emasculation of the male. Nothing happens in Harlem without government intervention either overtly or covertly; a condition that cannot be considered progress for the African-American.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second piece of legislation, known as Title IX calls for equal opportunity in education regardless of gender differences. The interpretation of this law considered males and females to be identical, a viewpoint contrary to even a rudimentary understanding of the purpose and function of gender. Boys and girls and men and women were put in the same classrooms and given the same instruction, which resulted in a drop in academic performance, unprecedented sexual activity, and an explosion in the rate of teenage pregnancies and unwed motherhood at all age levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every societal problem that existed at the beginning of the Kennedy era has gotten worse. Every one! The absence of ethics causes degeneracy; it cannot be otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethics comes from men—those men who understand their purpose of propagating and preserving the species on its infinite spiritual journey. There is no other place for ethics to come from. The government, its money, power and laws cannot provide a viable substitute for ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 50 years since the beginning of the Kennedy era the Kennedys and their contemporaries have not changed with the exception that they now own more of America. They still live the same materialistic immoral lifestyle. America has changed. Its moral fiber has been destroyed and it now lives the same debaucherous lifestyle popularized by the Kennedys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This lifestyle has among other things created a national loneliness. Allowing that some men feel the inherent desire to make multiple matings with the herd, the overwhelming reason for womanizing stems from the loneliness caused by an inadequate home life during childhood. Whether in the compound at Hyannisport or in the inner city ghettos, money and power cannot provide the love that all humans require to function properly. Ted Kennedy was a lonely man. He did not know love, nor did his brothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Kennedy era represented lonely men and confused women, which created a national angst that no amount of materialistic manipulation could remedy. The Kennedys did not create this era; they were symptoms of it. They represented the sum total of the collective consciousness of America. The passing of the Kennedy era is the passing of that consciousness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new consciousness is developing in America and in the Western world, which will become manifest in the next decade. It will understand that the natural patriarchal structure enables men to provide the environment and means for women to being forth life and nurture it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-9178796724983821049?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9178796724983821049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/9178796724983821049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/08/kennedy-legacy.html' title='THE KENNEDY LEGACY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8328299066923010640</id><published>2009-08-17T10:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-17T10:32:17.028-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE HUMAN JACKASS ERA</title><content type='html'>American history, like all history is punctuated with eras signifying personalities, ideas, and practices that define the times. It has had the Reagan era and the Johnson era, the Clipper ship era and the Railroad era. It also had the era of the Horse Soldier, which made possible the conquest of the plains Indians and added to the lore of their famous Chiefs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America and the entire Western world has moved into the Human Jackass era.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A jackass is usually kept in a barn overnight and in the morning the farmer brings it hay to eat before commencing the day’s work. The farmer provides the on the job training for the jackass, which tends to learn rapidly and becomes a reliable worker, often without use of a tether. If the animal is injured or sick the farmer provides for its healing and when necessary will call upon the services of a veterinary. The jackass normally does not mate unless the farmer brings in a she-ass for that purpose. After mating the farmer decides what to do with the offspring. Life is fairly simple for the jackass; the farmer provides for its every need—as long as it works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man now lives the life of a jackass. He has been stripped of all his natural male authority, which has resulted in the demise of the family and reduced his function to that of doing the work that some higher authority dictates. He receives medical care in a form and degree dictated by the government. The state provides for his education, which in one way or another consists of vocational training. When he does mate the state takes over the care and training of his child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western woman, once revered for being a devoted wife and nurturing mother has been stripped of her prestigious position due to the elimination of the family. What is she to do? The government has told her not to worry that she has a right to do the same work as the men, and as verification of this right she will be given diplomas, licenses, and college degrees all of which serve as she-ass certificates that will enable her to do work similar to that of men. She-asses now toil on the treadmill of production as equals to the jackasses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many people who like this beast of burden arrangement. They clamor for universal healthcare so that they will no longer have the responsibility of taking care of their bodies; they clamor for aid to education so that they will not have to prepare for their future; and they clamor for surveillance cameras and security police in an attempt to develop the safe environment once provided by men. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many she-asses are content to have the state feed, educate, and provide healthcare for their offspring, which gives it the opportunity to indoctrinate them and thus proliferate the number of people who accept the jackass way of living. By the time state-reared children reach adulthood they look upon government as the source of all things and are quite content to become beasts of burden and let the state provide for all their necessities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The human jackasses, not having families to care for them must rely upon government care when they can no longer pull their loads. Government provides retirement plans of various sorts and social security to help the aged, but eventually the effectiveness of these plans diminishes due to the erosive effect of government created inflation. No longer able to sustain themselves the aged are put in government housing and fed canned and packaged meals that have very little life-force in them. The aged develop reactions to the poor quality of nutrition, which the government treats with medicinal drugs. Eventually these aged bodies can no longer cope with the toxemia of poor diet and pharmaceutical products and they develop “incurable” illnesses attributed to their age. Since families have been eliminated, the government makes the life and death decisions for the aged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The jackass era has no culture for it was stripped of any traditional practices relating to the propagation and preservation of the species as part of its training for the workplace. Entertainment has become strictly sensation in one form of licentiousness and debauchery or another. These escape mechanisms provide only short-term relief from the boredom and un-natural life of being a jackass or she-ass. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All is not well in the human jackass community. Ten percent of the she-asses in America and 15% of those in Europe suffer from debilitating depression They are slowly learning that the government is not a good substitute man and/or husband. Mental illness has become the number one health issue in the English-speaking world. Some jackasses have begun to chafe in their stalls as they become increasingly dissatisfied with their un-natural environment.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually the more enlightened of the jackasses will look into the mirror and see that they created their environment by buying into the materialism of Western thought. The indwelling spirit causes a realization in each one that life consists of more than the acquisition of things. It awakens him to the higher purpose of spiritual growth and the importance of the propagation and preservation of the species. He comes to the realization that to consider those with testis and those with teats as being the same reflects asinine thinking and it was only natural that he began to live the life of the jackass as a consequence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Realizing his responsibility for his present situation he becomes aware that he also has the power to alter it by changing his thinking and having the courage to live out those changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some believe a new spiritual era will be ushered in by divine intervention. Such thought—the expectation that some other force will take care of things—is part of the passive feminine thinking that led to the jackass era and the institutionalization of human beings. The universe is designed to operate in a certain manner. What is in harmony with the universe endures, what isn’t doesn’t. The society created by Western thought is an aberration and is imploding. When it collapses the “opportunity” will be there for men of courage and spiritual insight to start rebuilding a more natural society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Change begins with the individual and societal change requires the cooperation of others. Like-minded men working together will break free of jackass thinking. They will unhook women from the treadmill of production and return them to an environment focused on the family that will permit them to fulfill their natural purpose of bringing life into the world and nurturing it. These few men will be known as the rebuilders and in the words of Isaiah they will rebuild on the old foundations. They will realize that the propagation and preservation of the species is the highest material calling on the journey of spiritual unfoldment and that patriarchy provides the structure that enables the establishment and support of the extended family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time is at hand for those men and women of insight and courage to rid themselves of the jackass mentality, get off the treadmill of production, and start living the lives that they were ordained to live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time to spread the word of another way of life, which can be done by sending this essay to newspapers, magazines and various organizations that have an interest in family and personal accountability. You can invest in the various information materials offered by Men’s Action and distribute them to friends, family, and associates. You can subscribe to the Men’s Action website and to its videos on youtube. No one is going to make the change for you. You and like-minded people working together can provide the change that all of humankind is thirsting for. Now is the time to start.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8328299066923010640?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8328299066923010640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8328299066923010640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/08/human-jackass-era.html' title='THE HUMAN JACKASS ERA'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3166437560468734431</id><published>2009-08-09T19:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-09T19:49:31.549-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SARAH PALIN AND THE RULING ARISTOCRACY</title><content type='html'>My readers know that I steer clear of politics in my essays and that I do not believe in having women in governmental positions. You might then wonder why I again devote an Essay to Sarah Palin. The first essay appeared on September 24, 2008 under the title Why Sweat Palin, which I recommend that you review when you finish reading this essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All aspects of the media have exhibited a frenzy of activity since the announcement that Governor Sarah Palin would not finish her term in office. She has been the butt of jokes by television comedians, news analysts, talk-show hosts, columnists, and bloggers. This essay will address why this woman unheard of by 99% of Americans a year ago, has garnered such national attention, and its relevancy to the issues facing Western society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched the ceremony held in Fairbanks, Alaska on the day that Palin stepped down and a new governor was sworn in. It looked like a small local event, as one would expect to see held for den mothers of a cub-scout troop. It appeared that no more than 35 spectators attended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same week that I watched Sarah Palin give her farewell speech I also watched Ambassador Hillary Clinton interviewed on Meet the press. These two events clearly illustrated the stark differences between these two women, what and whom they represent, and more importantly how they are perceived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hillary Clinton has advanced degrees from prestigious schools and as the former First Lady, then Senator, and now Secretary of State, has become a fixture in the elite Washington political establishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah Palin on the other hand, went to a few small town colleges before graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho. She is in essence a “country girl” who did modestly well in business and politics in a rural state. As the Vice-presidential candidate she was on the losing end of the last election and she has stepped down from her governorship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why then does the media devote so much time and space to her? Why do they debase her at every opportunity? Can she possibly be a threat to the existing power structure? Before answering that question let’s take a look at what constitutes the power structure of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A moneyed class of eastern educated people made up of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, and nominal Christians and Jews comprise the ruling aristocracy of the United States. Some of the powerful names in this establishment are the Rockefellers, Kennedys, and Bushes. They visit one another, are friends and have many intimacies between them. These people constitute the eastern establishment and they rule America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In theory America is built upon a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” which represents the thinking of the Jeffersonian wing of the Founding Fathers of the Constitution; however, in fact we have the Hamiltonian government of “the rich well-born and able.” It is natural that the Hamiltonian practice should prevail for aristocratic structures are intrinsic to Western thought. Everywhere that Western thought has prevailed aristocracies have been established. Apartheid in Africa and segregation in America are two of the more blatant examples of the Western aristocratic nature. The Founding Fathers were aristocrats; they had contempt for Asians and Africans. They owned slaves and indentured servants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nature of aristocracies is that they create among themselves more aristocracies in order to become more exclusive. In America we have educational, legal, scientific, and medical aristocracies that answer to the ruling aristocracy of the eastern establishment. The nature of aristocracies is that they think they know what is best for the people outside of the aristocracies. Usually there is no one on the outside represented on the inside, and herein lies the appeal to Palin and the threat to the ruling establishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah Palin speaks for simple folk, who believe in family, god, accountability and self-sufficiency. When have you last heard these values addressed politically? In the recent presidential campaigns neither party even mentioned family in their platforms; there wasn’t any mention of God either. Regarding accountability—we live in the era of the victim psyche—everyone is a victim of something and therefore not accountable for their actions. Regarding self-sufficiency, the ruling aristocracy does everything in its power to stifle that quality. It wants people to be on the dole so that they will become completely dependent upon the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarah Palin reflects the values of not only many Alaskans, but of those who live in the mountain states, and many of the rural areas of America. The Pennsylvania blue-collar worker who looks forward to hunting season; the shrimp boat operator on the Gulf coast; the dairy farmer in New York, and the citrus grower in Florida identify with the Palin message, as do the many middle-class wives and mothers all over America. In an article about Palin in Newsweek Roger Stone the consultant was quoted as saying of Palin, “Like Nixon, 20 percent of the country will be with her forever.” The ruling aristocracy shudders upon hearing those figures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The concern of the establishment is not that Palin has the potential to be another Nixon or the ability to rally the troops, groom herself for the presidency, or even revitalize the Republicans. The Republicans are not worth revitalizing. As said earlier, they are part of the ruling aristocracy. They controlled the presidency, and both houses of Congress and showed that they could outspend the Democrats and foster the greed, fraud, and general corruption of Wall Street. There is no viable organization that can pose a threat to those in power. The concern of the ruling aristocracy has to do with the potential discontent among the ruled that the tens of millions of people who identify with Palin’s message can create.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The entire Western world from the westernmost part of the Aleutians east to the Caucuses is tightening its grip on the populace and the people have begun to instinctively feel the noose of government control around their necks. This is especially true in the United States where Sarah Palin unknowingly is awakening the people to the encroaching evil. There are those who are against what this administration is doing, but they will not prevail. Being against something is never enough to bring about change. We are witnessing the final stages of the demise of Western society because of its feminine, materialistic, passive, and impotent thinking. Absolute government control is close at hand, and that will be followed by its demise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who survive will one way or another come to the understanding that patriarchy is the natural way of life that will sustain their survival. Men’s Action provides the seeds that will enable the living of that life. You can take advantage of this information now and start living the way you were intended to instead of waiting until you are forced to, and then under very difficult circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The clock is running out my brothers and sisters, my sons and daughters. It’s time for you to act and get involved and support Men’s Action to Rebuild Society. Don’t wait until the aristocracy has got you in its vise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3166437560468734431?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3166437560468734431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3166437560468734431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/08/sarah-palin-and-ruling-aristocracy.html' title='SARAH PALIN AND THE RULING ARISTOCRACY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3748221055086416588</id><published>2009-07-19T17:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-19T17:41:06.058-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN</title><content type='html'>The term “empowerment of women” has permeated the media, politics and education of this nation. It is a term that derives from the complete ignorance of gender abilities and relationships. The words power and empower are relativities. A power hitter in baseball gets more extra bases per hit than the average player. A powerful speaker moves people to accept a message more easily than the other speakers. A powerful car has more horsepower than most cars. To empower someone is to give them power relative to others. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To empower women relative to men in manly attributes is an oxymoron. A woman can never be empowered vis-à-vis a man in manly things. Men on the other hand, can be disempowered by castrating them, neutering them, and emasculating them, which has been done by law and their own ignorance. The result has not seen any increase in power of women—they are not hitting a longer ball nor do they have more horsepower—what has happened is that men are no longer permitted to exercise their power and the result has been a complete disempowerment of women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way a woman can be empowered vis-à-vis a man is in non-manly areas. When men’s power was unrestricted they built families. They could not do this on their own because only women had the reproductive ability. Therefore, women were sought after and they became empowered because they could do something the men couldn’t; they could bring life into the world and nurture it. This is what Professor Steven Goldberg author of &lt;em&gt;Why Men Rule&lt;/em&gt;, called a “win-win” situation for women. No man can compete with being a good wife and mother. Being a good wife and mother was empowerment not at the expense of men but as a result of the power of men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This female empowerment leveled up the entire race, because men set standards and women did their best to show that they lived according to those standards. Men married “the mother’s of their children” and were very careful as to whom they would select for that responsibility. Women were treated with dignity. A myriad of courtesies were extended to women such as opening the door for them, allowing them to go first, and having them walk on the sheltered side of the sidewalk. They were protected by their fathers, brothers, and husbands. They were not treated as similars because real men knew that women were receptive and responsive and therefore vulnerable and required protection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the current era of the emasculated male women have become completely disempowered. They have been reduced to work units. They have become automaton workers and programmed consumers. All the natural protection given to them by men has been removed and their moral conduct has degenerated. Their natural attributes of compassion and consideration have been suppressed and been replaced by a cultivation of aggressive behavior. They have been recruited into police departments to learn how to shoot people and they have been recruited in the military to learn how to kill people. The nurturers of the race are being taught to become the destroyers of the race. They are being motivated to become single mothers, dump their children while still in diapers into state run child care centers while they get on the treadmill of production. They see their children end up in street gangs, on drugs, in prison, and shot dead in the streets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result of this aberration of human behavior is that women are breaking down. The number one debilitating illness of Western women is depression. They have become so “liberated” that they are going out of their minds, and at an ever-increasing rate. Having the government act as their husband is not working in their best interests. Only men can empower women. REAL MEN who know their responsibility to the family, tribe, and human race empower women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order for men to fulfill heir responsibilities, which will result in the empowerment of women, they must understand the principle of gender and the patriarchal structure necessary to maintain the family. They must also have the courage to regain the authority necessary to fulfill their responsibilities.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3748221055086416588?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3748221055086416588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3748221055086416588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/07/disempowerment-of-women.html' title='THE DISEMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5426196843716870931</id><published>2009-07-03T04:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-03T04:18:43.829-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ETHICS, MORALS, &amp; STUFF LIKE THAT</title><content type='html'>The June 29, 2009 issue of Newsweek contained a cover story by Fareed Zakaria titled &lt;em&gt;The Communist Manifesto,&lt;/em&gt; which he subtitled &lt;em&gt;Greed is Good (to a point).&lt;/em&gt; An excerpt from the article states “What we are experiencing is not a crisis of capitalism, it is a crisis of finance, of democracy, of globalization and ultimately of ethics.” To lump ethics into the same pot as finance, democracy, and globalization indicates that he does not know where ethics come from. Furthermore, for a proponent of “greed is good” to express a concern for a crisis of ethics indicates a lack of understanding of ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quality that derives from ethics called trust received attention from Burt Ross former mayor of Ft. Lee, NJ. He spoke at the Bernie Madoff sentencing hearing where he pointed out that the major effect of the financial fraud was the destruction of the public “trust.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the same weekend that I read Zakaria’s column and saw Burt Ross on a news interview, I also saw on Meet the Press a concern expressed for the “values” of this nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These three unseen and conceptual factors: ethics, trust, and values received the attention of the major media within a span of a few days, which indicates the growing concern of the citizenry about non-material matters. Values and trust derive form ethics, a quality not understood by the media, its authors, interviewers, and producers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That ethics should be brought up in a national news magazine by non-other than Fareed Zakaria, is a travesty. If Fareed writes an article without mentioning GDP it becomes a collectors item; he is so enmeshed in the gross materialistic values of Western thought that he has become blind to the source and meaning of ethics. The making of money as an end in itself can never be ethical because it is an activity based on greed, which is unethical and self-destructive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men who devote themselves to the propagation and preservation of the species establish ethics. There is no place else for ethics to come from. Western thought—which worships the material world and developed a genderless society—is devoid of ethics. It has no sense of right and wrong. It attempts to make up for its ignorance of matters spiritual by developing laws for its societal conduct. Legal and illegal have replaced right and wrong leaving society without any meaning on which to base its behavioral conduct. Solomon said a nation without vision shall perish; we are that nation and we are perishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A report on the internet also this past weekend indicated that a growing proportion of our youth feel that they will not live long. Research has shown that youth who do not believe they will live long are seven times more prone to contact AIDS and other illnesses, use drugs, and become involved in negative issues than youth who have a longer life expectancy. Our youth have no purpose; they are perishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The race is perishing. The source of values, leadership and virility has been removed from society. In its place there is a constant barrage of anti family propaganda being promulgated to the public such as Sandra Tsing Loh’s article appearing in The Atlantic describing the end of her marriage. Titled &lt;em&gt;Is It Time to End Marriage?&lt;/em&gt; Sandra not only has no inhibition about sharing her infidelity with the whole world, but also challenges the institution of marriage itself.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No society has ever survived the loss of male authority and its virility. One would think that Western man would have learned from the fall of Greece, Rome, Spain, and France, but he remains as ignorant of the cause as ever. He hopes that somehow the law will set things right even though the laws of Draco, Solon, Justinian, Napoleon, and the Constitution have failed to do so. He so desperately wants to find some legal precedent that if adhered to will make things all right again, or that failing, perhaps an aspect of his religion that if properly implemented will change things for the better. There aren’t any laws or institutions that will make things better. Only men can make things betters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men make families. They also develop the ethics necessary to hold them together. The law is an ineffective substitute for manhood just as money is an ineffective substitute for fatherhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time for men to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b0IXPSBwh8"&gt;assert&lt;/a&gt; themselves, re-establish the family and reinstitute the ethics necessary to maintain it. There are no other options for positive change.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5426196843716870931?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5426196843716870931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5426196843716870931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/07/ethics-morals-stuff-like-that.html' title='ETHICS, MORALS, &amp; STUFF LIKE THAT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5058893542975153651</id><published>2009-06-26T03:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T03:45:25.468-07:00</updated><title type='text'>FATHERHOOD IS NOT A JOB DESCRIPTION</title><content type='html'>Fathers received attention this week as a result of President Obama’s message appearing in Parade on Father’s Day entitled “We Need Fathers to Step Up.” There was also some media attention given to the letter he wrote to his daughters two days before his inauguration. Whether they were his words or those of his writers they conveyed the impression that he is pro-family and understanding of the responsibilities of fatherhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His message might have had more credence if he had not chosen as his vice-president the sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act, the enforcement of which has resulted in the increased incarceration of men, removal of fathers from their children, and the further breakdown of the American family. It might have had more credence if he did not wax eloquent calling it a “wonderful day” at the signing of his first piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you question what these two pieces of legislation have to do in addressing the issue of fatherhood, they were both designed to usurp the authority of men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the Lilly Ledbetter Act, its focus was on equal pay for women. I am a former owner of a small manufacturing business and during the 23 years that I ran it I paid people according to the contribution made to the company. I paid them fairly, a policy that at least partially accounts for never having been approached to unionize. I made the decision as to what constituted fair pay, not some bureaucrat in Washington, the state legislature, or city administration. Since the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Act the judge of fair pay will come from a source outside of the business owner and will further erode the authority of men to conduct business according to their own judgment and ethics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A fundamental of all organizational operation requires that authority be given to those with responsibility. The president has a cabinet and every member in it has the authority to run his department as he sees fit as they strive to attain the goals set by the president. There is no organizational structure that can long endure without giving those with responsibility the authority to do what is necessary to fulfill that responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Put another way, every organization has its head, whether a business structure or societal grouping. Every corporation has a president and every herd has its buck. There can only be one leader and that leader must have authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government has destroyed the family structure by usurping the authority of the male; therefore, it no longer refers to the family in domestic relations but instead speaks of fatherhood and motherhood, reducing both activities to job descriptions prepared by the government. In keeping with the ever-growing emphasis on a genderless society, motherhood and fatherhood are being increasingly referred to as parenthood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fatherhood is not a job description; it is a function of developed manhood. The process of fatherhood begins with the development of men—real men—who understand that their primary function in life consists of providing the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a real man decides to start a family he seeks a woman who has what he considers the desirable attributes to be the mother of his children. When he finds her and she in turn decides he has the attributes that will provide the environment and means that will enable her to nurture a family, they agree to mate. This mating agreement is formalized to the community in a ritual known as the rite of marriage, in which the man and woman are making a commitment to the community to bring forth life and raise it to the best of their ability. After this ritual they become known as husband and wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As husband and wife they begin preparing the nest in which they will raise their offspring. This nest or home will vary according to the social mores and customs of the husband and wife, and their particular economic strength. After the first child is born, they will become known as mothers and fathers. The progression of fatherhood is from man, to husband, to father. Real men make good husbands, and good husbands make devoted fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This progression applies to women as well. A good woman makes a good wife makes a good mother. To think that it is possible to be a good mother without providing the child an environment containing a good father represents fallacious thinking at best. 90% to 95% of our prisoners come from homes in which there were no fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government has removed all male authority; consequently there can be no family. There will eventually be no free enterprise either. The elimination of family has left society without a cohesive bond. Government attempts to administrate the relationship between men and women, mothers and fathers, and parents has resulted in a national angst caused by a lack of belongingness. Fatherhood in that arrangement becomes a job description such as carpenter or stockbroker. It becomes devoid of any obligation towards the propagation and preservation of the species including its spiritual development. Government has no spirituality; nor does it possess any ethics. It has replaced moral and immoral with legal and illegal. It is this thinking that enables President Obama to take a pro-abortion stance while publicly proclaiming support for fathers. He does not see any tie in with abortion-on-demand and the usurpation of male authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only men make families. Only men make any organization. The disempowering of males leads to the collapse of society. Women cannot be empowered vis-à-vis men any more than the earth can be empowered vis-à-vis the Sun. The Sun can be disempowered, that is, its energy can be diminished, it can lose its pull of gravity, and eventually as it becomes more like the earth the Solar system will fall apart. The earth on the other hand, cannot in any way become more like the Sun. So too in the relationship between men and women, men can be castrated, neutered, and emasculated, but the woman can never become empowered. A sex change will never occur in which the new male can be empowered with virility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What this society calls the empowerment of women is the disempowerment of men by law and the usurpation of this power by the government reducing men and women to automaton workers and programmed consumers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having reduced fatherhood to a job description our children will continue to do poorly in schools, teen pregnancies will remain the norm, ADD will increase among our youth, the rate of marriage will decrease, and the rate of divorce will increase. These conditions do not bode well for women since 10% of them already suffer from debilitating depression in America, as do 15% of European women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until such time as men retake their authority and re-establish themselves as head of the family government will continue to extend its tentacles into every facet of society reducing it to a huge ward of the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fatherhood is not a job description. Don’t accept it as such.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5058893542975153651?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5058893542975153651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5058893542975153651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/06/fatherhood-is-not-job-description.html' title='FATHERHOOD IS NOT A JOB DESCRIPTION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8900498605289441941</id><published>2009-06-14T19:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T19:26:13.481-07:00</updated><title type='text'>COLBERT’S NEWSWEEK SATIRE</title><content type='html'>Comedian Stephen Colbert guest edited the June 16, 2009 issue of Newsweek, and except for two introductory pages and a few obvious satirical comments, the issue seriously addressed the issues facing the nation and the world. Or so it seemed, and that was the satire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Top-notch writers and media personalities such as Jonathan Alter, Dahlia Lithwick, Sharon Begley, and Newsweek’s Asian honkie Fareed Zakaria commented respectively upon education, the domestic prison issue (a true rarity in mainstream media), health care, and the war in Iraq. I felt that all these articles supported the satire and parody that represent the core of Colbert’s comedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These writers of national if not international fame, addressed effects and not causes, an activity that represents great philosophical and metaphysical satire. They actually believe that effects can be changed by a reorganization of material activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan Alter indicates in his article that president Obama and his educational team understand that the key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can’t. That statement comes from gross ignorance and the satire is the belief that this ignorance can correct an educational problem. When children have fathers at home school dropout rates decline, the rate of unwed motherhood is cut in half and scholastic performance increases. Not once does Jonathan Alter even hint at manhood, fatherhood, or family. Yes, the key to learning is better teaching and that is found in the home, not outside of it. It comes from observing the deductive reasoning and problem solving that parents utilize in maintaining the home. However, a given in all of the Newsweek articles is that family is unnecessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next we have the article by Dahlia Lithwick titled &lt;em&gt;Our Real Prison Problem.&lt;/em&gt; I have considered our high prison population the number one issue in America since I wrote my book and first began activities discussing gender and promoting patriarchy. The prison population in America doubled every eight years from 1976 to 2000 going from 250,000 to two million. It leveled off somewhat during the Bush administration reaching 2.4 million in 2008. Ms Lithwick’s article pointed out that the United States has 5% of the world’s population and close to 25% of its prisoners. She could have added that 90% to 95 % of the prison population comes from broken homes, and 95% percent of street gang membership comes from broken homes. Every night 24 million American children go to sleep in a home without a father in it. The prison population has climbed for 35 years; no solution is in sight because family is taken off the table of discussable items when addressing this issue. The satire and parody of articles written by persons of acclaim in news magazines in particular and the media in general are that they ignore fundamental causes and consequently can never reach solutions to issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sharon Begley’s article in which she addresses the administrative delay in bringing new “cures” to the market is another case in point. Scientists do not invent or develop “cures” to anything. All medications developed by the pharmaceutical industry treat symptoms not causes, which is a major reason the industry has grown so rapidly. A major growth in the pharmaceutical industry is in the production of drugs to treat depression and attention deficit syndrome. One million school children are now administered Ritalin, and the number of people taking anti-depressants numbers in the tens of millions. Those children who come from broken and dysfunctional homes are the primary users of medicinal drugs, and single, and divorced women account for the preponderant use of anti-depressants. The breakdown of family leads to the breakdown of society, but this concept cannot be readily understood by the feminine materialistic thinking of Western thought and hence did not receive Sharon Begley’s mention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly we come to Zakaria’s article titled &lt;em&gt;Victory in Iraq&lt;/em&gt; in which he states the following: “Most observers—especially many in the U.S. military with whom I have spoken—believe that the cardinal errors of the occupation of Iraq were to disband the Iraqi Army, de-Baathify the country and shut down all state owned enterprises. In doing this America engineered not simply regime change but the total dismantling of the state and a massive social revolution as well, all in the space of two months.” Why doesn’t Fareed Zakaria—who has absorbed Western thought down to the marrow in his bones, and can’t write an article without referring to productivity and employment—understand that those activities were not in error, that they were planned to destroy the family structure and cultural practices of the Iraqi people? This destruction has succeeded. Part of the plan for a New World Order is to destroy the patriarchal structure of the Islamic world. That plan has succeeded in Iraq, and a contingent of U.S. soldiers will remain in Iraq to be sure that they do not revert to their previous culture, just as American soldiers are still in Japan 65 years after hostilities ended to be sure that they do not revert to their previous culture. The destruction of the family remains a paramount goal of those who want to establish the New World Order and they are succeeding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The four articles described above and the other articles contained in Newsweek predicate their pseudo intellectual reasoning on gross materialism, a lack of spirituality, and the destruction of the family. To imply to us that the government is working on a resolution to issues that have been with us for decades is satire and parody. The very belief system that they employ has produced our problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unseen God produced the physical universe and the unseen conceptual thing of men produced the material world that sits upon it. Just as there can be no universe without God, there can be no society without men. By destroying the natural gender balance called patriarchy government with the help of the spiritually myopic media is taking over control of every fundamental aspect of our environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To counter this governmental destruction of the natural order of things requires your awareness and your action. My sons and daughters who are reading this essay you can subscribe to my future essays and join with the many who have already done so by clicking on the subscribe button under my picture. It will take you only 60 seconds to do and it will assist in promoting our message significantly. Once you are accustomed to receiving my essays you might get a friend, acquaintance, or co-worker to do likewise. That could lead to investing in my book and booklets, and eventually becoming active with Men’s Action. At the very least you will be contributing to a concentration of thought that will eventually break through the materialistic confines of Western thought and pioneer a return to a natural way of life.         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our message is gathering strength and it will not take much longer—a year at the most—before we begin to make significant inroads into our impotent society. No one can make this change alone; all of us can do it together. I thank you for your interest and look forward to your support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8900498605289441941?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8900498605289441941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8900498605289441941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/06/colberts-newsweek-satire.html' title='COLBERT’S NEWSWEEK SATIRE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8000825135144918856</id><published>2009-05-28T05:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T05:31:43.834-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OPEN ADVOCACY OF TORTURE</title><content type='html'>As I watched interviews and panel discussions concerning the use of torture and the fate of prisoners at Guantanamo I became increasingly uncomfortable, annoyed, and saddened to see in the American government open advocates of the torture of human beings. These advocates came primarily from the conservative element of the Republican Party that also receives significant support from the “religious right.” These advocates of torture are proud of their religious affiliation and can usually be seen in church on most any Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder as they worship, pray, and listen to sermons what causes their difficulty in understanding the fundamental tenets of their religion. What part of  “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” and “Turn the other check” do they not grasp?  Is the meaning of “Love one another as I have loved you” so deep that they cannot comprehend it? Apparently it is and always has been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The corruption of spiritual truth by Western thought has existed from the beginning as has the torture of those who would not accept its ignorance. From the earliest days of the Christian influence in Egypt, through the Crusades, Middle Ages, and the present time, there have been those who persecute and torture those who think differently than the “enlightened” group in power. The early immigrants to this nation such as the Quakers, Pilgrims, Puritans, Huguenots, Mennonites, Jesuits, and Lutherans were victims of severe persecution in Europe. There are among us today those who would welcome the return of The Inquisition provided of course that they were the inquisitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other side of the spectrum of political Western thought are the liberals who believe that if the resources of the material world could be redistributed societal happiness would prevail. What part of “Man does not live by bread alone,” “My kingdom is not of this world,” and “What does it suffer a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul” do they not understand? These liberals who rely upon academic learning, material considerations, and governmental power apparently have no grasp of the meaning of the words of Jeremiah “ Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, nor the valiant of his valor, nor let the rich man boast of his riches.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, liberals and conservatives alike unite in their focus on matters material and in their aristocratic attitude towards those who do not see as they do. It was because of this European thinking that prevailed at the time of Jesus that he uttered near the end of his earthly sojourn the words “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” They still don’t and that is why Western society is in its death throes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every segment of Western society is in a state of decline and its political activists are scurrying about trying to find something in their institutions that will “fix” the mess that 2,500 years of gross materialistic thinking created. It is not fixable. Nothing will change until the thinking changes. The time has come for Western thought to reflect on the meaning of “Lest a man be born again.” A change in thinking must occur within the individual man, and then he will begin to change society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men will begin to make change for the soul has begun to regurgitate the toxicity produced by the diet of gross materialism. The indwelling spirit is rousing man from his somnolence. Real Men of courage will rise up and re-establish the patriarchal structure necessary to sustain human development and spiritual growth. Patriarchy is a spiritual structure wherein men expressing the love of God within them dedicate their lives to the propagation and preservation of human existence. It is a structure that enables women to dedicate their lives to the nurturing of the race. It is a structure in which men and women working in accordance with their unique attributes grow spiritually.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Be ready my sons and daughters, you are witnessing an event that has already begun that will transform society to a degree beyond your wildest imagination. You are witnessing the implosion of a grossly materialistic, aristocratic, and monolithic government that is frantically extending its influence into every facet of our personal lives in order to maintain its control. As we see it tightening its grip by the enactment of onerous laws against the family, increasing the use of surveillance cameras, manipulating the economy to financially disempower ever-larger segments of society, and using the media as a huge propaganda vehicle to justify its actions, it appears that it is approaching complete control of our lives; however, it is decaying from within.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This decay will continue until the whole aberrant structure collapses and makes way for the only natural societal structure of the universe—patriarchy. Such a society loves its fellow man and does not devise ways to torture its brothers and sisters.  It doesn’t keep them in prison without a trial either.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8000825135144918856?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8000825135144918856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8000825135144918856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-advocacy-of-torture.html' title='OPEN ADVOCACY OF TORTURE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5322842437396198241</id><published>2009-05-14T04:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T04:44:08.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT</title><content type='html'>This past Mother’s Day I visited the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx and from the moment I entered the grounds the sight of the colorful flowers and lush green foliage produced an exhilaration in me that lasted long after I left. I attended a lecture and demonstration given by one of the staff on the care of tulips and in listening to her I realized that she was describing how a segment of the world that God had created functions, and that the entire Botanical Garden was God’s creation in action. Insects, birds, animals, plants, trees, and minute organisms went about their respective tasks of propagating and preserving the species in an interdependent community operating in accordance with universal laws and design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I compared this activity to life in our modern civilized society with its emphasis on what man has made. Raised in an environment almost devoid of nature (see my &lt;a href="http://www.mensaction.net/blog/2007/06/cubists.html"&gt;essay&lt;/a&gt; cubists) and schooled in the works of man, increasing numbers of people have been cut off and insulated from the natural environment they were designed to live in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The vocational and career training of our children focuses on occupations created in response to the negative effects of our un-natural lifestyle. Social workers deal with the breakdown of the family; occupational therapists deal with job-induced stress; physicians deal with the effects of the pollution of our air, water, and food; and lawyers deal with our inability to relate with each other. An increasing proportion of societal activity focuses on “fixing” the damage wrought by the ignorance of its un-natural lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his book The Holy Science, Sri Yukteswar defines ignorance as the perception of the nonexistent, and the non-perception of the Existent. He goes on to explain that &lt;em&gt;man believes that this material creation is the only thing that substantially exists, there being nothing beyond, forgetting that this material creation is substantially nothing and is a mere play of ideas on the Eternal Spirit, the only Real Substance, beyond the comprehension of the material creation. This ignorance is not only a trouble in itself, but is also the source of all the other troubles of man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sri Yukteswar’s comments were in essence an explanation of Jesus’ statement “My Kingdom is not of this world.” At the time of Jesus, the focus on the material world and ignorance of the spiritual world was the source of all troubles, as it is today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gross material focus of Western society, especially Anglo-American society is upon material possessions and accomplishments. I had a blogger say to me, “Just look at what we have done,” referring to the accomplishments of Western man. I emphasize the word “look” for the results of Western man’s efforts can be seen. The skyscrapers, airplanes, automobiles, highways, bridges, dams, home appliances and communications equipment serve as visual examples of the results of Western man’s productivity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blogger, however, did not “see” our children suffering from a lack of nurturing due to the breakdown of the family; nor did he see the ever-expanding prison population and explosive increase in mental illness. He did not see the utter defilement of the female beginning in grade school where 10 year-old girls participate in sex clubs; continuing to adulthood where streams of women journey to the California, the world’s Mecca of pornography, to serve as interns in X rated films in order to build up resumes necessary to obtain work in big city strip clubs; to the unprecedented rate of unwed motherhood, which spawns juvenile problems and creates stress induced depression upon their mothers. These conditions are not readily seen, but they do exist and evidence the collapse of society caused by its focus on the seen and its ignorance of the unseen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My pleasure in the Botanical Gardens derived partially from what I saw, but also from what I didn’t see. Looking at the tulip bulbs caused me to reflect on how they produced the offspring that would be the next generation of flowers. I was aware that flowers follow the path of the sun and that trees reach their branches out to it. I realized that the roots of plants and trees unerringly grow towards the source of water and nourishment. Birds always seem to know just where to build their nests and bees know which flowers to pollinate. Unseen forces guide the movement of the entire community of the Botanical Gardens, which provides the environment for the interplay of gender called patriarchy. Everything seen and done at the Botanical Gardens derived from the unseen and its harmony with universal vibrations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This interplay of the unseen and the seen to produce life and sustain it is not limited to plants, animals and insects, but occurs in greater depth among humans. The indigenous peoples of all continents except Europe based their communal existence on unseen principles. All rites, customs, rituals, traditions, and religious practices derived from their efforts to propagate and preserve the species while it grows spiritually. Their farming, fishing, gathering, and hunting were in harmony with nature and the unseen forces upon which it depended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man calls these societies primitive because they had not exploited their resources to construct material things. These “primitive” societies did not have orphanages, foster care, old-age homes, prisons, and insane asylums. They had no need for social workers, therapists, police, or parole officers, and they didn’t have to take vacations or anti-depressants. They had a high regard for matters spiritual, lived in harmony with nature, and were happy.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “ME” orientation of Western society focuses on the accumulation of material things and a self-indulgent lifestyle. The American Constitution emphasizes the right to health, wealth, and the pursuit of happiness; there’s nothing in it about the propagation of the species, family, universal love, or spirituality. Freelance writer Wendy Dawn’s article titled &lt;em&gt;Wealth, Wealth and the Pursuit of Happiness &lt;/em&gt;that appeared in Associated Content described the growing emphasis on material accumulation in America and the resultant decline in fundamental values.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Published on November 20, 2007 Wendy’s article reflects a growing awareness on the part of Americans that the emphasis on gross materialism is creating negative effects on society and is un-natural. At the time of her article there was little recognition of the cause of this materialistic emphasis, namely the imbalance of gender in Western society. However, I have noticed an increasing awareness of gender issues in the past six months along with an increased realization that men and women are different not only in appearance but in attributes. Eventually people will come to realize that these different attributes were designed for different functions and that a genderless society is an aberration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This trend is encouraging, especially when I consider that the establishment and all the institutions under its jurisdiction such as education, law, and especially the media has a grossly materialistic focus that it projects to the populace on a continual basis. However, what the establishment does not recognize is the existence of spirit and that it works through all people. This spirit provides the truth that eventually prevails over material ignorance. The spirit that causes plant roots to seek water, flowers to follow the sun, and bees to pollinate is always at work. Adversity tends to motivate us out of our somnolence and get back in touch with the spirit and the harmonious life it produces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are at the threshold of great societal change. This decade will witness a return to a more natural way of life and the survival and growth of those who embrace it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5322842437396198241?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5322842437396198241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5322842437396198241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/05/awakening-to-spirit.html' title='AWAKENING TO THE SPIRIT'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-61212260062390472</id><published>2009-05-04T05:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T05:33:55.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>EXPANDING OUR OUTREACH</title><content type='html'>The essays I have written under A Message from Elder George address the negative conditions of Western society with an emphasis on their cause and resolution. I will continue to write such essays but at a reduced level, as expanding our outreach collectively and individually requires an increasing amount of attention. This website already contains an abundance of material addressing the adverse conditions under which we live, its cause, and the message of Men’s Action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sixty-six of my essays precede this one and can be reached by clicking the last title shown at the bottom of this page, and then the last title on the bottom of the page it brings you to, and so on until the last essay is reached. If you log on to google.com and search for “&lt;a href="http://mensnewsdaily.com/author/elder-george/"&gt;Elder George&lt;/a&gt; – men’s news daily,” you will locate an archive that holds about 125 of my blogs. These blogs together with my essays, home page information, and streaming videos contain approximately 30 hours of continuous viewing and reading for people interested in our message. Anyone logging on to our website for the first time can spend a month exploring it—an activity that I believe would be interesting and rewarding; however, I feel no compulsion to supplement these archives by adding variations to the subject matter they contain. The time has come to advance and address issues that we can control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The implosion of Western society has accelerated and cannot be reversed. Our activity must focus on what we can do during this implosion to prepare for its aftermath. What kind of society will we establish? Will we continue with the gross materialistic thinking that has caused our present downfall or will we move on to a more natural and enlightened way of thinking? Will we work to fulfill the mission statement of Men’s Action “To foster a natural way of life for humankind?”  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will we recognize that the purpose of human existence is spiritual growth? Spirituality is the recognition that there is more to the human being that the physical body and more to life than the material world. The continuance of this growth requires the propagation and preservation of the species, humankind’s natural activity and highest calling. The natural interplay of gender called patriarchy establishes the family as the focal point of society and makes possible the propagation and preservation of humankind. Men and women are not the same—they are opposites. Our goal is not to compete with each other but to come together and become complete as we work to fulfill the purpose of human existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These values are contrary to Western thought, which has made a god of the material world and does not recognize the purpose of existence and the interplay of gender necessary to fulfill that purpose. Here lays our challenge—to live a more natural way of life in the midst of the collapse of a grossly materialistic society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A portion of my future writing will describe the activities of the men and women who promote our message and recommended lifestyle. It will recognize the man who distributes fliers to his friends and acquaintances as a means of spreading our message. It will recognize those who send our message to local radio and television programs. It will recognize the man who invests in five books and distributes them to his friends and family. It will recognize the first $1,000 donation, which most likely will come from a woman. It will recognize those who promote our message to other websites, who send leads to me, who meet with others in their home to disseminate our message, and who on occasion give me moral support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides this promotional activity we can also put forth effort on living our lives differently. We can change to more natural diets and also prepare more of our own food. We can practice home economics and teach it to others. We can share more of our time, talents, and treasures with others in the development of a more friendly and cohesive community. Most of all we must enlighten and empower men so that they can fulfill their responsibility to women and children by providing the environment and means that will enable women to nurture the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is much to do, and I plan to write more about what needs to be done and those who do it. News of these activities will be published under Men’s Action News rather than under A Message From Elder George. In a few days I will publish an article there about the promotional internet activities of one of our supporters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our comatose society has begun to stir. As it awakens it will begin to seek change. Men’s Action will through its active supporters provide the message for that change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-61212260062390472?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/61212260062390472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/61212260062390472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/05/expanding-our-outreach.html' title='EXPANDING OUR OUTREACH'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-787556701623455438</id><published>2009-04-22T06:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T06:16:29.424-07:00</updated><title type='text'>DEVASTATION OF WESTERN WOMEN</title><content type='html'>Feminists have taken deliberate overt action to destroy the value structure of women in order to motivate married women to leave the home and single women to avoid the institution of marriage altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Removing women from the marriage environment served as the vehicle for fulfilling the ostensible purpose of giving them independence and equity in society, including entry into all organizations that men made. This goal of parity masks a more sinister objective the effects of which have produced devastation among the ranks of women and a deleterious effect on society. The time has come for the unmasking of this sinister objective and then for a return to a naturally functioning society that cares for women and children. However, we first need to determine the reason for the creation of the institution of marriage along with related institutions that have become subject to attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mating ritual of most all life results in the forming of a reproductive structure that supports the propagation and preservation of the species. Among humans that structure has become known as the institution of marriage and it existed long before the enactment of any governmental laws to sanction it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women bring life into this world and provide its nurturing through their natural attributes such as adaptability, responsiveness, and visual thinking. They can only fulfill their function in an environment that provides them with safety and security. The highest order of activity for men consists of providing the safety, and security that enables women to bring life into this world and nurture it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The attributes of constancy, assertiveness, and conceptual thinking enable men to provide the environment conducive to nurturing through the organizations they create and by the ethics they develop. These organizations and their ethical foundations interweave into the development of cultural mores and religious rites that in one way or another relate to the propagation and preservation of humankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By removing male authority from the home the institution of marriage has crumbled resulting in high divorce rates, low marriage rates, and an explosive rate in unwed motherhood, which in 1950 hovered between 1% and 2% in America and has now reached close to 40%. The same increases have taken place on the European continent with unwed motherhood near 40% in England and 50% in France. The negative effect on the children of unwed mothers has far reaching consequences such as high drop out rates in school, increased likelihood of a relationship with the law and prisons, and the prospect of their daughters becoming unwed mothers as well. The effect on women of unwed motherhood and the efforts of the government to deal with it such as promoting birth control pills, condom usage, and abortion, has been devastating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By destroying the institution of marriage women also lost their prestigious positions of good wives and mothers. All through history women who were raised to be good wives and mothers were sought after by men and revered by society. Women dressed and acted in a manner to be attractive to men and men dressed and acted in a manner to be worthy of having such a woman as his wife. Women lived in a “win-win” situation. No man could compete with a good wife and mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women no longer have that prestigious position because they are no longer considered to be women. They have become persons instead. What is a person? What does a person do? How many ethnic groups have the word person in their vocabulary? Most of the world refers to its members as men and women. The Bible states that God created men and women. What part does a person play in the propagation and preservation of the species? Persons do not desire to become attractive to other persons; their dress and behavior reflects this lack of desire. The attire of men has become slovenly and that of women runs the gamut between dressing as a street person or a porn queen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women do not naturally feel any joy in being a person. The motivator of a woman’s life is the ME aspect of her personality. The ME factor motivated a woman to become a good wife and mother. How does personhood satisfy the ME aspect of a woman? It doesn’t; other criteria have been developed in an attempt to satisfy the ME aspect of the female psyche. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls are now taught to go to school, get and education, get a job, and make some money, so that they can be somebody. A big step towards becoming that somebody requires obtaining a piece of paper that indicates completion of certain areas of rote learning. That paper will serve as a pass to do what ex-men do (relieved of their former authority they have now become jackasses on the treadmill of production).  These pieces of paper that women receive entitle them to join the jackasses on the treadmill. Regardless of the name given to that piece of paper—whether degree or license—it falls under the greater heading of what I call “she-ass certificates.” These “she-ass certificates” serve as the primary criteria for hiring and admittance to the treadmill of production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part of the requirement of utilizing these she-ass certificates necessitates turning over to the state the responsibility of all aspects of child rearing. The state now sets the requirements for health, education, discipline, food, and dress for children. If these requirements are not met the child is taken from the custody of the she-ass certificate holder and given to other persons that the government deems qualified to raise children according to their standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since men have been removed from all levels of authority and their organizations and institutions weakened the meaning and purpose of life has become obscured and ethics have disappeared as is evidenced by the removal of restrictive laws on incest in Europe. Three European Union nations -- France, Spain and Portugal -- do not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following suit. It will soon become the norm in the Western world to conduct sexual relations between mother and son, father and daughter and brother and sister. Livestock raisers know that this type of inbreeding weakens the herd, but in a genderless person society apparently this fact has little significance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The establishment of a genderless society had nothing to do with the liberation and benefit of women; on the contrary, women have lost out on all fronts. They are being used and abused and consequently suffer from mental, physical and spiritual deterioration. Feminists served as dupes of a sinister conspiracy to have government control all of society. By neutering the male all institutions designed for the propagation and preservation of the species were weakened or destroyed, which enabled the government to step in and take over the administration and control of every aspect of societal activity and in the process has reduced men and women (or persons) to the role of jackasses and she-asses on the treadmill of production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government can provide substitute authority but it cannot provide substitute ethics, which can only come from men; consequently we are witnessing the complete moral decline of the Western, genderless, person oriented world, which is responsible for the devastation of its women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-787556701623455438?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/787556701623455438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/787556701623455438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/04/devastation-of-western-women.html' title='DEVASTATION OF WESTERN WOMEN'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2231719539588273695</id><published>2009-04-16T18:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T18:55:17.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'>UNDERMINING THE NATURAL PATRIARCHAL STRUCTURE</title><content type='html'>One of our supporters forwarded me an excerpt of an evaluation of patriarchy in India, which I have posted below. I received his Email the same day that I sent an Email to Henry Makow of savethemales.ca concerning his &lt;a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/130103.html%20Articles%20%3E%3E"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; Helen Gurley Brown: “How to be a Whore.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will address patriarchy in India further in a subsequent essay. This essay will address the significance of Henry Makow’s article as it relates to the material Emailed to me and the action that Western man has taken about this matter, or more correctly, the action he hasn’t taken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The excerpt follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The focus of this paper is domestic violence among rural women in India. The question asked by this study is: How do regional, family, and personal characteristics of a woman affect her likelihood of being hit by her husband? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Contrary to predicted results, however, being in a nuclear family structure, having greater decision-making power, and labor force participation increased the risk of women beingassaulted by their husbands. These surprising findings, taken together, suggest that the relationship between patriarchy and violence is not a clear-cut one.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A deeper understanding of the conditions under which violence is used by patriarchal families to control recalcitrant women will enable feminists and researchers to more fully comprehend the ways in which patriarchy controls women’s lives.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conclusion reached in this study indicates that women are less likely to receive physical abuse in patriarchal environments than in Western nuclear family arrangements. Keep in mind that this study focused on patriarchy in Asia, a continent that has a gender imbalance just as Europe does except that in Asia the imbalance tilts towards the masculine, whereas, in Europe it more than tilts towards the feminine. In both cases women suffer. In Europe the suffering results from neglect by the masculine presence and in Asia the suffering results from abuse by the masculine presence. Nevertheless, we have a confirmed study that Asian women are less likely to suffer from abuse in patriarchal structure than those in the Western nuclear family arrangement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet the intent on the part of feminists and liberals will be to debunk this study. We have only to look at the opening paragraph of Henry Makow’s article to learn why. He writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, said that a housewife was "a parasite, a dependent, a scrounger, a sponger or a bum." She didn't call them whores because she teaches them to be whores. Her sister-in-arms, Betty Friedan, compared homemakers to "concentration camp inmates" because of the lack of stimulation and opportunity for advancement in concentration camps.   &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two women along with contingents of other feminists and an army of liberals attacked the very foundations of human existence. These were Western women, working through the governments of Western nations. And what did Western man do about it? What did the religious right do? What did the Catholic Archbishops do? What did the Imams here and abroad do? What did real men do? What did anybody do to protect humankind from the self-inflicted scourge of Western society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say self-inflicted because feminism did not develop from some organism found under a rock or in the trunk of a tree. It did not come from an asteroid crashing into the earth’s atmosphere and spewing out a virus. Western man created feminism. Not only did he create it but, but he brags about his enlightenment—how he gave women equal rights in all things. Why is that considered an achievement? What is the benefit of treating dissimilars as similars? By bringing women into the organizations that men create—and which women on their own cannot create or maintain—causes the weakening of the organization and the defeating of its ultimate purpose, to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture the race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the more than forty years since Helen Gurley Brown expressed her degenerative opinions the lot of the American woman has done just that—degenerated. The number one health issue of the American woman is debilitating depression. Close to 10% of the adult female population suffers from this malady. In Europe where feminism has taken stronger root 15% of its women suffer from depression. Do those figure indicate progress for women?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What were the men doing as this monstrous attack on human life progressed? We can say that we didn’t know, that we were busy earning a livelihood and raising a family. Really? From the earliest days of television “family entertainment” such as “The Honeymooners” depicted men as buffoons and women as the stable and dependable homemakers. Didn’t we all see that? Didn’t we see the end of all male educational institutions and clubs? Didn’t we see our sons taught physical education together with girls? Didn’t we see the teaching of promiscuity taught in the schools and all the media? Didn’t we see pornography and smut develop into accepted businesses? Didn’t we read articles such as Do We Need Men Anymore, which appeared in US News and World Report, or witness Oprah expressing the same sentiments to millions of viewers? Did we miss all that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have witnessed an overt attack on the fundamentals necessary to maintain human existence, and it has been and still is overwhelmingly successful. Right now conservatives are introducing legislation in various state legislatures calling for equal rights for men. The feminists must roll in the aisles with laughter every time they read of such activities. I find the very thought of men asking a third party to treat them equally with women, repugnant, especially when that third party is responsible for the usurpation of their manly authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can no longer claim unawareness to the degenerative conditions around us. In addition to savethemales.ca there is rense.com and books by David Icke describing in detail the conditions caused by deliberate attacks on natural value systems. Videos can be seen of these conditions on nmatv.com, on youtube, and on a host of other websites. Whoever does not see these conditions does not want to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time to take action is at hand, and Men’s Action to Rebuild Society offers a vehicle through which to do it. It has a mission statement, essays, videos, information materials, and most importantly a message. It calls for a patriarchal way of life to be conducted outside of the mainstream of society. It calls for an understanding of the purpose of human existence—the propagation and preservation of the species while on the path of spiritual growth. The only thing required for it to succeed is a collective will. Do you have the will to make change? If so, then subscribe to our website, and join with others in spreading the word.&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;The time for action has arrived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2231719539588273695?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2231719539588273695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2231719539588273695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/04/undermining-natural-patriarchal.html' title='UNDERMINING THE NATURAL PATRIARCHAL STRUCTURE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4904304023874334994</id><published>2009-04-13T03:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T03:14:54.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GENDER AND RELIGION</title><content type='html'>Newsweek’s cover story for the April 13th issue entitled The End of Christian America, provided me with the motivation to address religion from a gender perspective—something I had intended to do for a long time. However, as I started writing this essay I realized that the Newsweek story came out during Easter Week. For an international news magazine to promote its lead story with the words The Decline And Fall Of Christian America written in large red letters on a black background of its cover during the holiest week of the Christian calendar was an “in your face” attitude of disrespect by the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This blatant public disregard of the feelings of the Christian community in essence proved the point of the publishers. What would or could the Christian community do about it? The article—like most that appear in major news magazines—covered both ends of the spectrum that they addressed in an effort to show fairness; however, the headline and title of the article delivered the message. This attack on religion by the media and the powers that control it is part of a planned effort to destroy religious influence in society. I have addressed this issue in other articles and will now continue with the original intent of this essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Newsweek article expressed little understanding of the reasons for the waning of religious and non-governmental institutional influence. I will comment on both of these conditions, as one bears upon the other. The reader familiar with my message will see gender woven into many paragraphs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religions are feminine in nature and reflect the materialization and personalization of unseen spiritual truths. They also represent the understanding by the local populace of matters spiritual and its resultant method of worship, which accounts for the same religion having dissimilar practices in different parts of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religions represent the common understanding and interpretation of the unseen by a particular group of people. This understanding might be based on scripture and/or from the sayings of prophets and other categories of “holy men.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Changes in religion are not changes of the truth, which cannot be changed, but in the understanding of the truth, which continually changes. The Christian religion had its first change in understanding when Eastern Orthodoxy broke away from Roman Catholicism. The next major change came with the Protestant Reformation, which ushered in several different denominations.  Every major religion has its various offshoots or sects, which represent groups of people with a similar understanding of matters spiritual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The practice of considering religions as synonymous with scripture reflects erroneous thinking. Differences—sometimes vast—exist between religious practices and their sources. Christianity in particular was formed by a feminine materialistic culture more than three hundred years after the death of Jesus and spearheaded into acceptance by a Roman emperor who worshiped the Sun god. All liturgical Christian denominations derive their liturgy from the ritualistic worship of the Sun god for which there is no basis in the vast spiritual compendium called the Bible. Significant remnants of the European culture in the Middle East during the time of Mohammed influenced the interpretation of the Koran and the practice of Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The spiritual understanding of a religion and its ability to communicate it varies inversely with the authority required to maintain its influence. The more that a religion can teach, guide, and train its members, the less authority it needs. Religions that preach blind obedience to dogma require complete authority over their members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As spiritual awareness of people grows they become less inclined to have religious authority imposed upon them and instead seek to increase their understanding of themselves and their world. On the other hand, people want a certainty and constancy of matters spiritual. They want religion to be authoritative without it becoming authoritarian. The European influenced religions have never offered much enlightenment to its members and now that they have lost their authority they are rapidly losing their influence in society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The societal structure in which religions function also affects their influence upon that society. Religions little influenced by European thinking offer great enlightenment and seemingly hold little authority over their members even though vast populations operate in accordance with their teachings. These religions function in a patriarchal society, which by definition has authority. There is respect for the father, the mother, for elders, for ancestors, for everybody and everything. Religions do not need added authority in patriarchal societies. Society IS the authority and all activity centers about the well-being of the family—the core of all patriarchal societies. You can be sure that the gurus, swamis, and enlightened masters that now offer their enlightenment to the Western world did not do anything without the blessings of their fathers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We do not have such a society in America or the Western world, hence the Newsweek cover article indicating the decline of Christian influence in America. Indeed it has declined, and for two significant reasons. It has failed to provide enlightenment of the true meaning of Biblical scripture and instead relied upon fear to maintain its hold on the people. Secondly, all institutional authority in America and the Western world has collapsed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While all religions are feminine in nature, the structure in which they function is masculine. Men build organizations; an inherent trait that manifests early in childhood. Boys form clubs, teams, and gangs. They know the abilities of each of their members: who can yell the loudest, run the fastest, lift the most, spit the furthest and even pee the furthest. These traits are utilized when it comes time to accomplishing a task that requires the participation of all members. As the boys grow into manhood the purpose of forming groupings becomes manifest—to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it. Whether to form a sailing crew, hunting party, or defensive detachment, the objective remains the same: the care of women and children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that Western governments have done a comprehensive and thorough job of legislating away all male authority, all organizations and institutions have lost their virility. Civilizations decline when virility declines. All institutions and organizations in the Western culture have declined in influence and now rely on government support and involvement in one way or another as it attempts to become the substitute male.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The institution of the Church requires the same masculine leadership as any other institution. Its failure to provide this leadership is self-imposed. Focus on the Family for example, in its three decades of existence never extolled the virtues of manhood. It believes it can build families with fathers but without men. It does not understand the patriarchal structure of the universe. This thinking permeates all of Western society and consequently the influence of all its institutions are declining including its religious &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxfGin_Rkzk"&gt;institutions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As humankind continues its quest for spiritual meaning, the trend to meditation and an awareness of unseen forces increases; however, a new spiritually oriented world will not come about without the development of natural gender relationships called patriarchy. Enlightened or not, people need the patriarchal structure in which to function. Chanting OM, Amen or praying the Rosary will not sidestep that need.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4904304023874334994?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4904304023874334994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4904304023874334994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/04/gender-and-religion.html' title='GENDER AND RELIGION'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-8919966517209252251</id><published>2009-04-07T04:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T04:11:35.279-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SHIFT IN WESTERN THOUGHT CLOSE AT HAND</title><content type='html'>In my frequent referral to the gender imbalance of Western thought it might be perceived that I do not appreciate all that it has accomplished. To the contrary, I am well aware that the industrious nature of Western thought has literally moved mountains and produced an unprecedented amount of material development. The feminine principle reflects industriousness; therefore, feminine, materialistic, Western thought will by its nature produce great quantities of material product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man has exhibited an almost superhuman intensity of thought and physical activity in his efforts to produce more goods and services for the world. Whether climbing frigid mountains with 100 pounds of belongings strapped to his back in order to enter the Yukon and search for gold, or forging a path through mosquito infested tropical forests of Panama to build a canal, he has endured severe physical hardship to reach his goals. His prodigious mental achievements exhibit similar stamina. Authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev wrote their voluminous works in longhand in pen and ink. John A Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge designed every component of the bridge himself. Superhuman efforts and their resultant achievements permeate the history of Western man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, for all his industriousness, pioneering efforts, and inventiveness, and the huge material accumulations that they have produced, Western man has not found truth or peace—the ingredients for happiness. He has looked in the wrong places. The following parable will shed some light on his misdirected efforts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man searched every corner of his garden for his keys. After a few hours of this activity his wife came to the window and calling out to him asked what he was looking for. He told her that he had misplaced his keys. When she asked him where he had seen them last he replied that he last saw them in the house. She then asked why he didn’t look in the house and he replied, “I see better out here.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought functions best in the material world that it sees; therefore its activities relate to external pursuits. Truth and peace however, reside within, and cannot be found through the external searches of Western thought. Unable to find truth, even after diligent search, Western man developed theories, which are guesses as to what the truth might be. He especially likes to develop economic theories, which he hopes will give meaning and justification to his material pursuits. Keynes, Friedman, Malthus, Galbraith, Smith, Marx, and Veblen have all espoused economic theory and their names have migrated into the common Western lexicon. None of these economic theories ever work, and as I write this article an international meeting is taking place to determine what to do about the deepening world economic crises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought creates theories about all observable phenomena and academic disciplines. Some of the more famous are Einstein’s theory of relativity and Darwin’s theory of evolution, but there are psychiatric, medical, nutritional, and political theories as well. All theories eventually pass away as new observations are made along with the development of supporting data.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point my sons and daughters I interject that my message about the universal principle of gender and the patriarchal structure is not a theory; it is a truth. It does not require proof, only understanding. Western thought has difficulty with understanding because it has made a god of the material world and has developed a belief structure based upon what it can “see.” A collection of what it sees has been given the fancy name of “empirical data” and is used as “supporting evidence” for its theories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting back to the thread of this essay, there are two approaches that the man in the garden can use to find his keys. He can start to look inside the house where he would more easily find the keys, or he can increase the intensity of his search on the outside. He can pull out all the weeds, then the flowers, and then every bit of vegetation until he leaves the garden completely barren. He will then deduce that if the keys are not on the outside they must be on the inside where he last had a glimpse of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western man has chosen the latter option. He will develop one theory after another, as he continues to exploit the material world in his quest for peace and truth. Only after he has significantly disrupted the natural order of things without coming any closer to peace and truth, will he come to the realization that maybe he has been looking in the wrong place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is close to that point now as he sees the earth deteriorating from the ravaging of its resources and his own life suffering from increasing economic exploitation and environmental pollution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once he decides to go inside he will find the keys that will unlock the door to peace and truth; which will enable him to get on the road to happiness. The inner quest requires the same diligence and passion that accompanied his material accomplishments. It will require service, devotion and an expression of love in all that he does. He will come to the realization that just as everything seen outside the house in the parable—its color, state of repair, type of garden, and condition of the property—depends upon the unseen thinking inside the house, so does all that he sees in this world come from unseen influences. He will come to realize the necessity of maintaining a balance between the inner and outer, between the seen and the unseen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As he changes his direction and begins to spend more time looking within he will come to the further realization that he couldn’t be on this new path if he wasn’t here; therefore, in order to make it possible for others to gain access to the same path the primary activity and objective of humankind must be its propagation and preservation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The propagation and preservation of the species requires the efforts of a receptive adaptable, responsive, and caring entity that will bring forth life and nurture it. In order to function properly that entity requires a secure environment and the means with which to conduct its nurturing. It is the responsibility of man to provide the environment and means for this function to take place. It can only be done through the interplay and balance of gender called patriarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s the truth.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-8919966517209252251?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8919966517209252251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/8919966517209252251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/04/shift-in-western-thought-close-at-hand.html' title='SHIFT IN WESTERN THOUGHT CLOSE AT HAND'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-1628443809685074960</id><published>2009-04-03T06:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-03T06:36:11.173-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE CHANGE MAKERS</title><content type='html'>Who will bring about change in society? Who can we look upon to leave the beaten track and pioneer the different? Who will stand up and take the abuse and face the ridicule of others who want to maintain the status quo? To answer those questions we also need to ask why and when people seek change. Dissatisfaction with themselves or their surroundings causes people to seek change. People might be dissatisfied with their appearance, locale, employment, health, negative habits, or relationships. When the dissatisfaction reaches a point that they can no longer tolerate—when they hurt enough— then they begin to seek change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will address who will make change in depth; however, another area to explore before discerning who makes societal change is to determine who won’t make change. Those who depend upon the existing structure for their livelihood in one way or another will resist change. Those who receive government doles will be loathe to make change and destroy the hand that feeds them. Our government provides increasing supplements to people’s services in order to maintain their dependency upon it (government) and quell any thoughts of change. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The professional class will express the same conservatism towards change as people on the dole, for the system has made it possible for them to prosper; to change the system puts their livelihood in danger. You will not see doctors, lawyers, educators, and corporate executives supporting change unless they have left their chosen fields. People with a vested interest in the system cannot muster the courage to change it; they want to work inside of it. They want to “fix” it. Those people will not make change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately it is from these ranks that Men’s Rights Organizations (MRO) draw their support. Oh, how they love to put on their letterhead advisory boards containing prestigious names that will add authenticity, stature, and renown to their organization. These prestigious people represent the system and they will not support any change to it. The MRO’s have not built a following because they have not reached out to those who want change, and they have not done that because they are part of the same aristocracy they complain about. They want to “fix” things, not change things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that we have identified those who won’t make change we can more easily determine who will make change. The disenfranchised, minorities, unemployed, disenchanted youth, the frustrated, the outcasts and the misfits of society will make change. Those who earn their livings from their individual efforts such as house painters, photographers, limousine operators, carpenters, small business operators, musicians, painters, writers, blue collar workers and white collar workers who feel that life offers more than routine labor will also step forward to make change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These people will readily give of their time, talents, and treasures. They do not consider that they are giving anything up, but on the contrary they feel they are investing in a message and way of life that they believe in and want to propagate. They give out of proportion to their worth because they believe the life they live under the present system has become increasingly worthless. The true fanatics necessary to materialize a movement come from these ranks. They want change and will go to great lengths to make it happen; in their eyes all that exists is garbage, and they see no sense in reforming garbage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The above description applies to people who want to make change at most any time in history. The characteristics of those who want to make change in our specific environment will also be discussed, but first I take this opportunity to express my elation that the supporters of Men’s Action come form this group and I am grateful to them for their support. They have demonstrated the characteristics that I have described. Some have voluntarily ordered three, five, or a dozen or more of my books to give to friends, family and acquaintances. They have done the same in distributing my information booklets. Recently the first order arrived for a packet of the fliers The Raw Truth, which one of our supporters will distribute to his friends and acquaintances. Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to receive a donation of $100 through our website. Outreach on the part of our supporters has begun to increase. My essays and videos are being placed on other websites. The message has taken root and is now gradually expanding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the specific dissatisfaction of those who seek change today, they have become keenly aware that men have lost their natural authority, that the family has been destroyed, standards have deteriorated, and that it requires more labor to earn enough to pay for the essentials of life. They have become aware of a government that has expanded its reach into every aspect of their lives and is putting forth efforts at solidifying and expanding this reach under the guise of benevolence. They have become aware that they no longer have authority over anything and are being reduced to automaton workers and directed consumers. Maybe they just didn’t enjoy living in a home without a father and with a stressed out mother. Maybe they didn’t like being treated the same as girls in school and women in the workplace. This group has expressed frustration with the impotence of existing political institutions and has come to a realization that fundamental changes need to be made and that these changes can only occur outside of the system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These men and supportive women will spearhead the change that will come about in order for society to survive. On the one hand they are fighting what appears to be tremendous obstacles, a firmly entrenched materialistic aristocracy that controls the media, political structure, educational system and the economy. On the other hand they are up against an enemy that has no purpose other than self-aggrandizement. Its members lack both virility and spiritual understanding. Eventually the entire system will implode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To all who have accepted my message I say that the task before us is not to attack a decaying entity, but to prepare ourselves for a better life. The Men’s Action mission statement calls for fostering a more natural way of life for humankind. The first step in doing that calls for the rebuilding of the family. We have to enlighten and empower men so that they can once again handle the responsibilities of being a husband and a father. All systems, procedures, rituals, and societal structures will evolve out of that understanding and purpose.&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;Now that you know who will make change and if you are one of them, I offer a bit of advice. Welcome into your ranks those who tried to make change through institutions of their choice but failed. Whether liberals or conservatives, democrats, republicans, independents, and others of various persuasions, welcome them into the fold. Give them a new vehicle and a message. Work together to create a life outside of the system. Keep spreading the word, handing our material, and referring people to our website. Be a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3l24ggM4Ag"&gt;change maker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-1628443809685074960?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1628443809685074960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1628443809685074960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/04/change-makers.html' title='THE CHANGE MAKERS'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-3216681199861479943</id><published>2009-03-29T19:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T19:37:33.827-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE</title><content type='html'>In my first attempt at writing an opening paragraph for this essay I referred to the materially oriented aristocratic way of the life of the West. As I proceeded with the essay I reflected upon my readership, which consists for the most part of people of European extraction, and realized that some might be annoyed that I belabor the description of Western society as materialistic and aristocratic. I empathize with their feelings, as both of my parents were of European origin and I am not comfortable with people criticizing my way of life either; however, as I see it crumbling about me if someone were to point out why, I would become receptive to their criticism. It is with this thought in mind that I will expound upon the feminine, materialistic, and aristocratic nature of Western thought and its societal effects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my last essay I referred to author David Icke’s alien reptilian conspiracy theory in which he claims that reptilian aliens have infiltrated the earth primarily through the European culture. He speaks of their concept of royalty and aristocracy and refers frequently to their worship of the mother goddess. An independently made conservative film titled Indoctrinate-U contains a segment in which a liberal white professor says that whiteness is oppression and racism is an example of it. He goes on to say that to do away with oppression is to do away with whiteness. These were strong terms that I will come back to. However since my mind was focusing on the term aristocracy it motivated me to check The Republic and in it I found that the one form of government that Plato liked is the Aristocracy. Here we have the post Socratic and truly European thinking of the Greeks—which I believe began with Plato— admiring the aristocratic form of government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether Elder George though his understanding of the universal principle of gender, or Davis Icke with his reptilian theory, or the political science professor in the film Indoctrinate-U, or Plato, the observation is that Europeans develop aristocracies. They do, and there is a reason for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before addressing the reason for Western aristocratic thought I refer to the comments of the professor in Indoctrinate-U who refers to racism as white oppression. I consider racism to be one of many examples of the Western aristocracy. Even in an all white environment the aristocratic thinking presents itself in the form of religious, ethnic, educational or economic exclusivity. This aristocratic thinking is evident in both conservative and liberal attitudes. The very professor that complained about white suppression was himself an oppressor in the academic profession in which non-liberal thought was ostracized, persecuted, and rooted out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Western aristocracy is evident all over the world, although it frequently goes unrecognized, especially by Americans who have an extreme naiveté when it comes to understanding other cultures. All of South America is one huge European aristocracy. Those Hispanics that we see in our country are of Indian or black extraction and are not welcome into the aristocracy. I have seen this first hand in my travels to Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Panama, and in my marriage to a member of the Cuban aristocracy. General Batistia the dictator of pre-Castro Cuba was never invited to the Havana Yacht Club because he was not a member of the aristocracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I worked on this essay I learned through the internet that Brazilian President Lulu de Silva blamed the world financial crises on “white and blue eyed bankers” and indicated that there weren’t any black bankers in the mix. Eventually there will be, but first their thinking will have to be in accord with the governing aristocracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now in finally getting to the reason for aristocratic European thinking we must first determine where this thinking originates and why. In the relationship between males and females the male represents the masculine assertive influence and the female represents the feminine receptive entity. In the human mating process the female (woman) has to make herself attractive to the male (man) so that he will select and pursue her. She focuses on the ME aspect of her personality in the hopes that the man will choose her over other women. She tries to be better than the other women in the attributes that the male considers worthy of mating. Even after she mates she tries to show that she maintains the expectations of men better than other women do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the primary classification of women was called housewife or homemaker, women would frequently have tea parties or café klatches in each other’s homes. These activities gave them an opportunity to evaluate how the other women took care of their home, children, and husbands. Those who did not meet the standards of the inner group were drummed out of the circle. Those who did the drumming out were members of the clique. Among females cliques begin in pre-kindergarten, continue through the school system, and in all organizations containing women throughout their entire lives. The formal name for clique is aristocracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aristocracies have their benefit for they tend to level people up. The activity of tea parties and café klatches leveled up the entire social strata. The housewives made sure their homes were shinny bright, their children well behaved, and their cooking and/or serving flawless when the women came to visit. Aristocracies tend to level up all areas of activity, which is fine provided that it takes place within the environment of the tempering effect of the masculine influence. Left to their own accord women will ultimately exclude themselves completely—there is only room for one Oprah in any grouping of women. In the larger sense all aristocracies will ultimately collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that we have seen the genderless society (which means the suppression of the masculine influence) firmly established in America and Europe and in growing areas of the world, women no longer have standards to uphold. As a consequence marriage has faltered, unwed motherhood has mushroomed, chastity has disappeared, and moral decadence has grown. People indulge themselves in various forms of behavior that in essence provides escape from the un-natural way of life imposed by a ruling materialistic aristocracy. Consequently mental illness has taken over as the number one health issue of Western countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All aristocracies will ultimately collapse because they lack purpose. Aristocracies represent the feminine “ME” aspect of life and become almost devoid of the masculine “I” aspect of life. The masculine principle provides direction and purpose; without it society collapses. Solomon wrote, “Where there is no vision, the people shall perish.” Of course they will perish. Vision gives purpose, and purpose provides the structure and functioning of society. Western thought has created a purposeless self-indulgent aristocratic society that is collapsing before our very eyes. The solution requires a change in thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That thinking has to come out of its narrow materialistic paradigm and expand into a more gender balanced value structure with an awareness of the purpose of life, which is the propagation and preservation of the species while on the journey of spiritual growth. To attain that objective there will be an evolvement into patriarchy, the natural societal structure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether we go through a cataclysmic change, a mass spiritual enlightenment, a revolution against the tyranny that is building up in our government, or individuals and small groups starting to live their lives differently, the end result will see the re-establishment of patriarchy. As Solomon also said, “There is nothing new under the Sun.” Other forms of government will rise and fall, but patriarchy will always return. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The future society will be patriarchal. We can prepare for it now or deal with it when it is thrust upon us. In either case we will have to adjust our thinking to properly live in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my next essay I will describe those who will bring about change in this society and spearhead the development of patriarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-3216681199861479943?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3216681199861479943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/3216681199861479943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/society-of-future.html' title='THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5794295489545467642</id><published>2009-03-23T19:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-23T19:11:46.892-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE DEMISE OF WESTERN SOCIETY</title><content type='html'>Most people know that something fundamental is wrong with society; they don’t know what it is, how to replace it or who will replace it. This essay—the first of three—will explain what wont work. The second essay will explain what will work, and the third essay will describe who will bring about change. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every institution created by Western thought will collapse as they are all built upon an aristocratic and materialistic foundation. All aristocracies ultimately destroy themselves and all things material eventually disintegrate.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western society cannot be fixed—it cannot be changed—it is imploding. The fathers of the Constitution such as Madison, Jefferson, and Adams realized that it would eventually lead to tyranny and rued that they had taken part in creating it. Democracy has never worked anywhere. None of the institutions created by Western man are effective. They all lead to control. The nature of Western thought is to control. Ecumenism, universal healthcare, and no child left behind are all vehicles of control. Increasing numbers of those associated with our government now openly call for a one-world order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nature of our political leadership works to strengthen governmental control. We have a governing aristocracy that functions well in any political organization and it gravitates to one party or another as opportunity and necessity dictate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New York City has a mayor who belonged to the Democrat Party but obtained his current position by running on the republican ticket. General Clark belonged to the Republican Party but ran for president on the democratic ticket. Senator Kerry, presidential candidate of the Democrat Party tried to influence republican Senator McCain to run as vice-president. Democrat Senator Lieberman ran for re-election as an independent and supported the presidential candidacy of Senator McCain. It is common knowledge that the Bush’s and Clinton’s visit each other. Our new president who campaigned on the promise of change has an administration made up of democratic and republican regulars. The same group always runs our country regardless of which political label they wear at the time. How then can we expect government to make change? The government created an out-of –sync with nature system; it will not change it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my lifetime from the beginning of the Great Depression to the present there has been a continuous growth of government and a breakdown of the family. There has not been a resolution to any problem and all problems have increased in magnitude. Let’s take a look at the more pronounced issues facing this nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have the world’s largest prison population. The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners. We have 2.4 million of our brothers and sisters rotting away in cages, and this figure does not include those in local jails, on parole, and on probation. Our prison population has increased 15 fold since 1930, and we call our country the land of the free. If we challenge this statement about our freedom we are called un-American. Oh how we love our oppressors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unwed motherhood rate has during that same period of time increased from a little over 1% to 30% today. That should come as no surprise as children raised without fathers provide 90% of the prison population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The number one debilitating illness of the American woman is depression with upwards of 10 million suffering from that disease, and the number one health issue of the United States is mental illness. Suicide causes more deaths in America than does homicide. We are a nation that is literally going out of its mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American boys rank as the most violent in the world. They provide a growing field of recruitment for street gangs and prospects for future incarceration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The educational system continues to deteriorate. A test given to high school graduates in the 1950’s when given to college seniors 50 years later resulted in lower scores by the college seniors. John Taylor Gatto—a distinguished public school teacher—in his book Dumbing Us Down, felt our youth would be better served if public schools were shut down altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The very core of our society has been in a state of continuous decline, especially during the past 50 years. This decline has seen the tentacles of government reach into every area of our private lives. It has grown in size and influence. It has destroyed the primary institution of humankind—family—and rushed in to institutionalize the care of every aspect of societal activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have said many times in my columns that the thinking used to create a problem cannot be used to solve that problem. Last week I came across the following statement from Albert Einstein, “Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” That’s just another way of stating the same truth. Western society will not change until it changes its thinking, and it shows no proclivity to do so. On the contrary it is digging in and hoping that its impotent institutions whether political, religious, educational, or professional will find some miracle that will somehow change everything.&lt;br /&gt;It will not happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps it cannot happen because of the set feminine, materialistic, and aristocratic basis of European thought. In his tome The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy (and how to end it), David Icke espouses a theory that reptilian aliens have infiltrated the earth primarily through the European culture. He speaks of their concept of royalty and aristocracy and their obsession with ritual and hierarchy. That’s pretty much the description I have used these many years and I never heard of David Icke until a few months ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not speak in terms of theories but in terms of truth that has been revealed to me. Nevertheless, the conspiracy groups that Icke refers to whether tri-lateralists, Bilderbergers, Jesuits, Masons, Zionists, or a host of others, are all Europeans. They created the Federal Reserve and the global banking systems that are exercising increasing control over us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Western thought cannot change the issues confronting us—it created these issues. It’s over. It’s done. Bye-bye Western society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those concerned people who know that something fundamental is amiss in our society and who try to make change through the institutions they are familiar with are becoming increasingly frustrated. Whether conservative or liberal, democrat, republican, or libertarian, religious or non-religious, their energies are being dissipated through impotent institutions that will not change. It’s time to direct those positive energies into another venue, into another paradigm of thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That other paradigm is patriarchy. It focuses on the family—the only natural institution—and is in harmony with the universal vibrations.       &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;I will be writing about that in my next essay The Society of the Future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until then, I ask that you take a good look at society as it continues to crumble before your very eyes. Are you going to just &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCZyrCbXjo4"&gt;watch&lt;/a&gt; it happen or will you do something to prepare for your survival and a return to a natural way of life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5794295489545467642?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5794295489545467642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5794295489545467642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/demise-of-western-society.html' title='THE DEMISE OF WESTERN SOCIETY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-5756534383119650127</id><published>2009-03-15T17:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-15T17:01:43.151-07:00</updated><title type='text'>REAL MEN DON’T RUN AWAY</title><content type='html'>Two of my readers, one from the East Coast and one from the West Coast alerted me to Henry Makow’s article The Men Who Ran Away, which appeared on rense.com as well as his website. I normally don’t comment on other people’s articles, as I have my own agenda as to what I will write about, as they have theirs. However, since my readers felt that this article was germane to my message rather than comment on it other than to say it clearly reflects upon what has happened to the males of society, I decided to write about what it triggered in my mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, I will briefly narrate an event that occurred on the New York City subway about a year ago. It was in the afternoon on the elevated section of the #1 train when two teenage boys, one black and one white started giggling and screaming and running up and down the car. They had apparently seen a mouse running under the seats along the length of the car.  They made such a commotion that I finally told them that they were acting like girls and to keep quiet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That incident provides further evidence of what has happened to the males of our society. They act like females. In a genderless society the males will always tend to act like females because females can’t act like males. Males can be neutered by castration. To the best of my knowledge there has never been a testes implant to females. Male characteristics can be removed but they cannot be transplanted; therefore, in a genderless society the government will attempt to substitute for the male. Thus we have in our genderless society big government and none of the positive attributes of the male.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In our modern world men are not physically castrated but they are mentally and legally neutered. They are raised in homes without competent fathers, educated in schools that cater to female understanding, told that they are no different from girls, banned from having men’s clubs, and removed from all familial authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boys and girls need training to fulfill their natural obligation to the family and tribe. They need to be trained for the responsibilities of parenthood and their obligations to the greater good. By removing male authority we have reduced men to be nothing more than workers—jackasses on the treadmill of production. The women wanting parity have become she-asses on the same treadmill. They no longer need males. They do however, want security guards, surveillance cameras, and locks, gates, and fences to provide for their protection. Somehow these devices didn’t work at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Canada, or at Virginia Tech and Columbine High School in the United States. No amount of security can protect people against a society that does not have ethics and the moral behavior that results from it. Men develop ethics and moral standards. Real men have courage to stand up and protect women and children. The function of the male is to provide the environment and means for the female to bring life into this world and nurture it. No men—no ethics, morals, or protection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When family served as the focus of societal activity the ritual of marriage signified a commitment on the part of both people to fulfill their obligations to each other and to the greater society. In the selection of mates the female looked for the strongest most powerful male to protect her—especially during the time of pregnancy when she was most vulnerable—while she went about her nurturing activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that marriage has gone our of style and being a loyal wife and devoted mother are no longer held in high esteem we have developed into a society of workers—jackasses and she-asses—who are measured by the loads they haul. The government attempts to provide protection by onerous laws against men and a multitude of security measures to protect women from those evil men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently the system doesn’t work very well as 10% of the adult female population suffers from debilitating depression. Maybe they are beginning to realize that being a she-ass isn’t as secure and self-fulfilling as being a wife and mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only hope that they have of getting out of their un-natural and debilitating lifestyle is to pray that somehow a few real men will rise up and make the changes necessary to provide a natural way of life. Real men don’t run away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the interim increasing numbers of women will have to settle for taking tranquilizers and anti-depressants while working under surveillance &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpt6iteavsU"&gt;cameras&lt;/a&gt; as they pull their loads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-5756534383119650127?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5756534383119650127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/5756534383119650127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/real-men-dont-run-away.html' title='REAL MEN DON’T RUN AWAY'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-1610766416295722042</id><published>2009-03-09T11:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T11:23:59.385-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIME TO PREPARE FOR CHANGE</title><content type='html'>Upon the creation of the physical universe gender came into existence. An understanding of and attunement with gender—the source of all movement—results in harmony with universal vibrations whereas, ignorance and/or a disregard of gender results in disharmony, which in societal structures leads to chaos, decline, and dissolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I will address the causes of the disharmony that engulfs our society and what to do about it. Author David Icke attributes the negative conspiracy theories that Henry Makow covers so well in his essays on savethemales.ca to be a result of an alien reptilian influence manifested primarily among Europeans. Whether the actions taken by these conspirators are the result of an alien influence or the result of ignorance (which is the source of all evil) the method used to control society is the same; it calls for the breakdown of the family structure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An event that had significant worldwide implications concerning the breakdown of the family but which the media all but ignored was the 4th International Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995. This conference called for the elimination of gender in all societal activities, and for the elimination of religious influence as well. The United Nations sponsored this event and supported it with its huge financial resources and international political influence. It should be noted that Hillary Clinton and Bella Abzug were but two of the heavy hitters of the feminist movement that attended that conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This event sought the destruction of the family through the noble sounding goal of equality for women, which translated meant equal authority in the home. No organization has two heads because it cannot survive with two masters; a truism that applies to the family as well. The removal of male authority from the family results in its destruction and makes the government the arbiter of relationships between people. All modern marriage and divorce laws now focus on the relationship between people, not families. The almost 14 years that have elapsed since the conference in Beijing, has seen an extensive attainment of its goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “liberation” of women was a cruel hoax used as one of the vehicles to destroy male authority and put the population under control by government. Women have suffered horribly since their so-called liberation, especially Western women. Whatever the conspiratorial organization, whether the Illuminati, Bilderbergers, Trilateralists, Zionists, Jesuits, or Satanists, or others, the primary method of control consists of the removal of male authority, the destruction of the family, and the elimination of all standards. Government control cannot occur without the destruction of patriarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To remedy this influence of centralized government control does not require an attack on the perceived enemy. Evil is the absence of good just as sickness is the absence of health. Diabetes, cancer, autism, and arthritis do not exist as entities unto themselves. They are symptoms of poor health caused by the pollution of air, water, food, or thinking. When the causes are removed the symptoms will disappear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we walk in the light the darkness disappears. Part of the light is an understanding of gender, the importance of family, and the patriarchal structure that makes it possible. Family is the only institution necessary for the development of humankind. All the manmade institutions were designed as substitutes for the patriarchal structure and eventually became means of control. We now have government institutions controlling, education, health, employment, business, and societal relationships. We are almost completely controlled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The un-natural control upon us will eventually self-destruct and all its institutions will come down with it. Only one institution will survive—the original one—the family. The propagation and preservation of the species is the focus of universal activity. All of nature revolves about the family and the extended family, which we call the tribe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the collapse occurs spiritually based and gender oriented men who know that their responsibility requires them to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture the race will start the rebuilding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The collapse of our society is near at hand and now is the time to prepare for the rebuilding. However, it must come from outside of the conventional thinking and activity of our society. Men must realize the power within themselves. They are part of the Adam power of the world, which is the only power and it is manifested in men in the form of virility. Institutions are not virile. The only power they have is the power that men give to them or that men let them have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On our website I have a streaming video titled Vagina Vocational Centers in which I call upon men to leave college. Sometimes the men ask what will happen to them. Nothing will happen to them. They will still have their manhood; the universities won’t, and there is no institution that can survive if in someway it is not connected to men. Men have built every institution. If they were all to crumble men could rebuild them. It is the institutions that will be in trouble when men leave them—all of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not concern yourself with the institutions that men have made or corrupt organizations. Concern yourselves instead with the power within you, for it is the unseen power within that controls the material world that is seen. I realize that for most Western men this is a difficult undertaking because the approach of Western society has been to address all issues through institutions ever since the Greeks first turned over to the city-states the care of society while they pursued material interests. The forming of institutions is a feminine reaction that wants to associate with a strong external entity. This focus on institutions has caused many modern writers to address all issues on an institutional basis without even thinking about what individuals can do to make change. It has caused people to be dependent upon the certificates, degrees, and licenses that institutions bestow upon those who have given the proper recitations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the most successful people of our time did not have any institutional recognition. Bill Gates and his VP dropped out of college, as did Steve Jobs and his VP. Bronson of Virgin Air is a high school dropout. Edison was a grade school dropout as was Premier Krushchev of Russia. Most of the famous African-American bandleaders and musicians could not read music—neither could the Beatles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The power of men does not require authentication by an institution. Men authenticate institutions. It is only necessary for men to realize the power within and utilize the universal will to translate this power into action. Patriarchy is a spiritual concept that provides the vehicle for the manifestation of this action. Spread the message of patriarchy far and wide and you will find increasing numbers who understand and are willing to step forward and live the life they were ordained to live by providing for the care of women and children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say to yourselves upon arising I AM A MAN, I AM A MAN, I AM A REAL MAN. Say it as you are walking down the street. Say it whenever you have doubt about what you can do to change or build a better society. There is no power on the face of the earth that can withstand the collective assertive power of the masculine principle. Not one!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-1610766416295722042?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1610766416295722042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/1610766416295722042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/time-to-prepare-for-change.html' title='TIME TO PREPARE FOR CHANGE'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-4205399518948506234</id><published>2009-03-04T05:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-04T05:22:00.929-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE DECLINE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST</title><content type='html'>The March 2nd issue of Newsweek contained an article by Joel Kotkin entitled Death of the Dream, which focused on the decline of the technological, political, and environmental leadership of California, which I thought would be of interest to you because the fundamental reasons for this decline—while not addressed in the article—are germane to our message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before writing an essay critiquing Joel Kotkin’s article I decided to check his area of expertise. He is executive editor of newgeography.com, the author of six books, a fellow of urban affairs at Chapman University, and a Senior Fellow at The New America foundation. He also writes in a pleasant non-adversarial manner and strikes me as a person who would be a friendly neighbor.  He is obviously a learned man in the area of Western thought and therein lies his limitation in assessing the problems of California or of America, which he addresses on the on the homepage of joelkotkin.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joel Kotkin’s Newsweek article opened with the following paragraph: “For decades, California has epitomized America’s economic strengths: technological excellence, artistic creativity, agricultural fecundity and an intrepid entrepreneurial spirit. Yet lately California has projected a grimmer vision of a politically divided, economically stagnant state.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Kotkin laments the decline of technological, political, and environmental leadership in California and attempts to explain this fall from leadership in economic, ideological, and demographic terms. He addresses all issues as though they occur in a finite materialistic arena. He seems to not understand that all materialistic events are effects of unseen actions and unless the unseen changes, the seen will continue to deteriorate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one unseen area of influence that he touches upon gingerly and refers to as “its own culture of self-regard” and “an evermore inward-looking form of narcissism,” he tends to treat as a mild character flaw rather than as a part of a lack of fundamental values. The California psyche does not understand the universal activity of the propagation and preservation of the species including its spiritual growth; consequently, it has little regard for the family or the patriarchal structure necessary to maintain it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its laws focus on civil arrangements rather than spiritual values. It promotes the sameness of sex and homosexual unions while simultaneously enacting laws that breakdown male authority in the home thus destroying the family. A manifestation of this disregard for family is reflected in the soaring rate of unwed motherhood in California. It is reflected in the pregnancy of unwed congresswoman Linda Sanchez. The flaunting of female independence by becoming unwed mothers creates a class of males that will be underachievers and potential gang members and prison inmates. California’s governor symbolizes its lack of gender understanding having played the role of a pregnant man in the movies. Those that have eyes, let them see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While referring to the many material accomplishments of California such as its high tech companies, the film industry, and environmental leadership, Kotkin does not mention that California is the pornographic capital of the world. Thousands of women journey to that state each year to participate in pornographic movies and not for the money, for they act as interns or apprentices in order to build up a resume that certifies them as whores so they can perform in “adult” clubs around the country. I often wonder what that interpretation of “adult” has on our youth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has never been a society that did not implode once men lost their authority. There has never been a society that did not sink into moral decadence once the ethics created by men was removed. There has never been a society that long prospered after it abandoned as its primary focus the natural activity of the propagation and preservation of the species. There has never been a society that has survived the destruction of the family.  &lt;br /&gt;As mentioned earlier, Joel Kotkin is a learned man and surely knows that the above statements are true, yet he does not address the fundamental unseen issues that have led to the decline and eventual demise of California in particular and to our nation and the entire Western world in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Kotkin, like so many of his contemporaries, attributes changes in societal activity and performance to the institutions that Western man has established. He writes about political parties, educational systems, economic developments, religious organizations, social strata, and financial policies. His works are easy to read and follow, but they serve more as historical perspectives rather than studies of cause and effect. Unfortunately this approach is the norm of Western society. Women complain about what is wrong; men are expected to take action. Since men have been neutered in our society everybody writes and talks about its problems and no one offers solutions. The hope is that somehow institutions will fix things. If nothing works, the institution of last resort—the government—is called upon to “do something.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We live in a society incapable of resolving its problems. No matter what the problem, it never goes away; it gets talked about and talked about as it festers and grows. The thinking used to create a problem cannot be used to resolve that problem. Western feminine materialistic thinking has created its problems; it cannot resolve them. Only a change in thinking will bring about the action necessary to bring about resolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The change in thinking necessary in Western society requires an understanding of the universal principle of gender and a change in focus from maximum freedom for self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement to a life dedicated to the propagation and preservation of the species. From this objective ethics will develop that will create the moral atmosphere conducive to mental, physical and spiritual growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;California and the Western world put their faith in matters material. When the material world became unraveled, whether in the form of the bursting of the high tech and real estate bubbles or the collapse of the stock market, society began to decline. What needs to be understood is that society did not decline because of the collapse of the material entities, but that the material entities collapsed because of a lack of ethical standards and moral behavior.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Civilizations die when they lose their virility and ethics. Only men are virile. Only men develop ethics. No men—no virility. No men—no ethics. No virility and ethics—no society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time for a change in thinking, not only in California but also throughout the Western world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-4205399518948506234?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4205399518948506234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/4205399518948506234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/decline-of-california-and-west.html' title='THE DECLINE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2138254841372444822</id><published>2009-03-01T17:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-01T17:06:34.041-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE NOOSE TIGHTENS</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our federal government has a noose around the neck of individual responsibility and authority of society. The actions of the present government taken before and immediately after its inauguration have tightened this noose considerably. It has taken overt and covert steps to remove any vestiges of patriarchy thus leaving the functioning of society completely dependent upon government fiat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prior to the inauguration this administration had already begun its contribution to the continued attack on family by choosing Senator Joe Biden as Vice President. The ostensible reason for the selection of Senator Joe Biden was because of his foreign policy experience, which other than his time as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee was rather limited. He does however, have a significant credential towards governmental control of the family in his authorship of the Violence Against Women Act. This act removed familial authority from the male and put it in the hands of the government making it the arbiter of relationships between men and women living together. That action destroyed the family; it also increased the prison population and caused more children to live in a home without a father present.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama’s first legislative act signed into law the Landbetter Act, which calls for equal pay for women. This act serves as intrusion by government into the running of private business. As a former business owner I can say that most business owners pay people according to what they contribute to the enterprise, they really don’t care about sex, race, ethnicity, or religion. Those few who have genuine prejudices ultimately pay the price in reduced productivity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women challenge how anyone can oppose violence to women. People are not opposed to violence against women; they are opposed to the Violence Against Women Act, which aside from not taking into consideration the fact that it does take two to tango, this law destroys the family, and makes children wards of the State. It is a cleverly named law that hides its sinister intent and with its specific gender designation, it along with the Landbetter Act creates a schism between men and women further destroying any remaining natural gender (patriarchal) relationships and solidifying the power of the government over both sexes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A third step towards complete government control is the effort to enact universal health care, which has nothing to do with health just as the much-heralded Hillary Clinton Health Care Plan had nothing to do with health. Her plan had to do with sickness and how to pay for it, and that in essence is all that the present administration’s proposals deal with. I am a veteran and receive care at Veteran’s Administration hospitals, which I find to be reasonably good care. However, I am always defending myself against their attempts to have me take flu shots, medication, or invasive examinations. If universal health care becomes enacted people will either do what the government says or they won’t be treated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another step in the governments move towards complete control of all aspects of societal activity is its increased influence in education. The Los Angeles Times reported, “The government proposes to take on a greatly expanded role in making college affordable and in ensuring that students earn degrees or credentials. Pell Grants would be tied to inflation for the first time since their inception, providing annual raises for recipients. The grant program also would be turned into an entitlement program with guaranteed funding, like Social Security or Medicare. The government proposes to take on a greatly expanded role in making college affordable and in ensuring that students earn degrees or credentials.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government desires to take on this expanded role in education so that it can influence the thinking of greater numbers of people and also keep them in debt to the government. It conducts a combination mind control and financial control operation. By eliminating family and at the same time making the government the provider of all services it cultivates in people the belief that all issues must be resolved through governmental action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scope of the government’s efforts to destroy family and entrench its powers cannot be over-estmated The activities mentioned here have to do with the efforts of our new administration, which has been in office a little over a month. However, there are those who feel these efforts to further destroy the famiy were manifested the day after the present administratin came to power. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, described those policies on his Web site the day after the inauguration. “Minutes after Obama took the oath of office, the transfer of power was made complete on the White House Web site. The page, once home to a host of family values, now welcomes an extreme collection of anti-life, anti-woman, and anti-family agendas. Under the caption "civil rights," Obama pledges to fight for nationwide civil unions [for homosexual partners], repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, homosexual adoption, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, expanded "hate crimes," and over 1,100 costly same-sex benefits. He promises to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" [in the military] as well as block a federal amendment to preserve marriage. In exchange for the support of groups like Planned Parenthood, the abortion business is also due for a rich payoff from the 44th president, including his support of abortion-on-demand, more funding for "family planning" programs, embryonic stem cell experiments, and tax-funded abortion.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, the march of the government to greater control of our lives continues, and the present economic crises serves as a diversion that enables it through the enactment of seemingly innocuous legislation, to strengthen its hold on all aspects of our lives&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The noose around our individual initiative continues to tighten. What I find particularly disturbing is the willingness of a large part of the population to have this noose around them. It gives them a sense of security. The way to enslave people is to get them to want to be enslaved and there are many who clamor for this enslavement whether by calling for universal health care, universal aid to education, for surveilance cameras, or for an infinite number of laws to protect them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are very close to the establishment of complete tyranny. When that happens essays such as this will not be permitted on the internet or anywhere else. The time to step forward and do something to protect yourself and those who think as you do has arrived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been said that when people hurt enough they start to look for change, but I wonder if by the time they desire to make change from government control the noose will be so tight that it will be impossible to get out of it. What seems more likely is that the majority will have been so indoctrinated that they not only won’t hate their oppressors—they will love them. They will be comfortable in the noose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is the time to stand up and start living the patriarchal life as best as you understand it and as best as you can. The longer you wait the tighter the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9LXjp0kOdw"&gt;noose&lt;/a&gt; will become.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E.G.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5179801092026613892-2138254841372444822?l=mensaction.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2138254841372444822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5179801092026613892/posts/default/2138254841372444822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mensaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/noose-tightens.html' title='THE NOOSE TIGHTENS'/><author><name>Elder George</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08974023215186292532</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KLrk6rhnuGA/SSxfDuMhZtI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q0zVDeDF2Y0/S220/logo-300x300.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179801092026613892.post-2507520629865490349</id><published>2009-02-25T18:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T19:01:00.757-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A TIME FOR RE-EVALUATION</title><content type='html'>As I skimmed through the 2009 Personal Finance Issue of US News &amp;amp; World Report and reflected on the disproportionate emphasis placed on matters material by the media, all levels of government, and our societal institutions I became motivated to write this essay on the true needs of people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrary to 
