Romance and Its Discontents
Feb. 27th, 2013 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nebris..this is going into of the rewrite of Part Four: “Building a New Matriarchy – Grand Strategy”..
"There is the popular saying that we are 'not Human Beings having a Spiritual Experience, but Spiritual Beings having a Human Experience'. That is not exactly accurate. What we are is 'Spiritual Beings having a Biological Experience'. And it is our biology that drives us.
The modern concept of Romance is less than two hundred years old. It was created by a mostly upper class English aesthetic elite in the early 19th Century, the Romantics. [of course] But was very much in keeping with the Bourgeois sensibilities of the period, a faux-Naturalism that was in fact anti-Nature, a world view that has come to strangle us here in The West.
What is labeled Romantic Love is really a mostly biological mechanism that helps propagate the species and usually lasts about eighteen months or so, long enough to produce a pregnancy and bring it to term with a Male to 'stand guard'. The Male will be driven to dominate and impregnate, whether they are aware of that or not [usually not] any Female their subconscious sees as good breeding stock and their need is to 'possess' said Female until she has produced their child. This is a deeply embedded Survival Drive, one which Females have as well, the 'tick tick tick' of the Bio-Clock, one that gets louder as thirty draws nigh.
But the Romantics envisioned it as Grand Emotion State, one which they deeply fetishised. Though they largely eschewed Christianity, they had been steeped in it and this construct was founded upon their subsumed Christian rejection of the Flesh, which was seen as Base, and the accompanying drive for Purity. Much of the Romantic world view is asexual while being driven by Great Passion, which in turn is intensified by the suppression of sexual [biological] urges.
That is the anti-Nature aspect of the thing. The survival of the species requires sexual intercourse. And of course the Romantics did fuck like bunnies though mostly within the state of matrimony, which 'sanctified' all that fucking within a 'romantic' paradigm, the 'til death do us part' paradigm, which is also labeled 'Undying Love'.
Of course Modern Society has taken that paradigm and run with it for all its worth. Modern Corporate Marketing Culture has turned it into a mechanism of Emotional Enmeshment of vast Marketing Potential and it endlessly churns out songs, movies, novels, cards, 'how to find a perfect mate' books, and so on ad nauseum, all based upon an Ideal that is almost entirely fictional.
It can be exciting and intoxicating, but it always ends with a crash, because it is a 'high', and the higher you go, the harder the crash. It is perfectly crafted for Dreams, but very harsh in real life. Play in it if you like, but never live there. It will wreck you.
The way in which this creates a form of mass mental dis-ease is that we ignore or out right reject our biological nature and strive to make what is usually a temporary state into a permanent one. This level of culturally validated delusion leads to pain and frustration on a massive scale. It also leads to unplanned pregnancy, murder and suicide.
I suspect you, my Sisters, will rebel against all this Biological Destiny as it runs counter to nearly all of Modern Feminism, which has a very strong anti-sex foundation. But keep in mind that said paradigm also springs out of Patriarchy, which itself suppresses the Biological as a determining factor, at least for the Male. 'The Mind must Rule at all times' is a Male conceit, as is the need to transcend the Flesh, the Domain of The Feminine. The flip side of that conceit is that the Female is 'totally' ruled by Biology.
But there is great power in that Biology. The Feminist Writer and Divine Madwoman Valerie Solanas wrote about men, "he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him." As has been stated earlier, we shall take advantage of that drive."
"There is the popular saying that we are 'not Human Beings having a Spiritual Experience, but Spiritual Beings having a Human Experience'. That is not exactly accurate. What we are is 'Spiritual Beings having a Biological Experience'. And it is our biology that drives us.
The modern concept of Romance is less than two hundred years old. It was created by a mostly upper class English aesthetic elite in the early 19th Century, the Romantics. [of course] But was very much in keeping with the Bourgeois sensibilities of the period, a faux-Naturalism that was in fact anti-Nature, a world view that has come to strangle us here in The West.
What is labeled Romantic Love is really a mostly biological mechanism that helps propagate the species and usually lasts about eighteen months or so, long enough to produce a pregnancy and bring it to term with a Male to 'stand guard'. The Male will be driven to dominate and impregnate, whether they are aware of that or not [usually not] any Female their subconscious sees as good breeding stock and their need is to 'possess' said Female until she has produced their child. This is a deeply embedded Survival Drive, one which Females have as well, the 'tick tick tick' of the Bio-Clock, one that gets louder as thirty draws nigh.
But the Romantics envisioned it as Grand Emotion State, one which they deeply fetishised. Though they largely eschewed Christianity, they had been steeped in it and this construct was founded upon their subsumed Christian rejection of the Flesh, which was seen as Base, and the accompanying drive for Purity. Much of the Romantic world view is asexual while being driven by Great Passion, which in turn is intensified by the suppression of sexual [biological] urges.
That is the anti-Nature aspect of the thing. The survival of the species requires sexual intercourse. And of course the Romantics did fuck like bunnies though mostly within the state of matrimony, which 'sanctified' all that fucking within a 'romantic' paradigm, the 'til death do us part' paradigm, which is also labeled 'Undying Love'.
Of course Modern Society has taken that paradigm and run with it for all its worth. Modern Corporate Marketing Culture has turned it into a mechanism of Emotional Enmeshment of vast Marketing Potential and it endlessly churns out songs, movies, novels, cards, 'how to find a perfect mate' books, and so on ad nauseum, all based upon an Ideal that is almost entirely fictional.
It can be exciting and intoxicating, but it always ends with a crash, because it is a 'high', and the higher you go, the harder the crash. It is perfectly crafted for Dreams, but very harsh in real life. Play in it if you like, but never live there. It will wreck you.
The way in which this creates a form of mass mental dis-ease is that we ignore or out right reject our biological nature and strive to make what is usually a temporary state into a permanent one. This level of culturally validated delusion leads to pain and frustration on a massive scale. It also leads to unplanned pregnancy, murder and suicide.
I suspect you, my Sisters, will rebel against all this Biological Destiny as it runs counter to nearly all of Modern Feminism, which has a very strong anti-sex foundation. But keep in mind that said paradigm also springs out of Patriarchy, which itself suppresses the Biological as a determining factor, at least for the Male. 'The Mind must Rule at all times' is a Male conceit, as is the need to transcend the Flesh, the Domain of The Feminine. The flip side of that conceit is that the Female is 'totally' ruled by Biology.
But there is great power in that Biology. The Feminist Writer and Divine Madwoman Valerie Solanas wrote about men, "he'll swim through a river of snot, wade nostril-deep through a mile of vomit, if he thinks there'll be a friendly pussy awaiting him." As has been stated earlier, we shall take advantage of that drive."
