I think there is a “patriarchy” of sorts. It’s that almost all forms of communication are masculine. Scalable technologies force the medium to become the message. E.g.
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“I love you” as words, audio, or TV does not carry the same meaning intended by the speaker. The masculine aspect is more proficient (perhaps forcefully forced to be) at manipulation of these tokens.
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The problem with communication via say “vibing” with someone is that it’s not scalable and not precise. Messages like “Evacuate from the wildfire” need low-fidelity high scale communication.
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The issue w/ replacing all forms of communication with these “better” ones is that yes, you’ll survive better. Yes, you’ll more effectively coordinate in large scale behaviors like war, resource extraction, innovation, etc... (anything w/ scale)
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But the cost is that you lose the individual touch. The “Love” message is lost.
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It’s hard to communicate this because the communication channels are masculine. E.g. most women probably do not want to debate Jordan Peterson live on TV The debate will revolve around winning/losing rather than understanding.
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In that sense, the feminine communication is invisible because it happens outside the public sphere. That makes its “power” hard to measure but IMO it’s equally if not more potent.
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I suspect socially, status seeking behavior on say instagram seems degenerate because it makes this power visible. It’s like showing off “Look at how much invisible influence I have. I’m the puppet master pulling the strings.”
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Lots of things lose their power when made legible. Political moves, jokes, seduction, etc... their intrinsically dark/invisible/subtle. They slide between the pieces of your ego’s armor and either cut or tickle you.
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(Ego is the armor though, it can die, but what it protects cannot. Once it realizes its uselessness it allows “you” to fully see and appreciate the invisible without having to throw it into the light.)
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There’s a yin/yang dynamic to legibility/illegibility. The legible/illegible distinction is probably more effective than the order/chaos one because chaos has such negative connotations.
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However, the downsides of forced legibility are becoming increasingly understood.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/ …
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There’s great power in the illegible. But the way to unleash it is not to make it legible. That would defeat the purpose. The comfort of cool shadow does not survive the searing judgement of the sun.
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If women are to save the world, I suspect it won’t be with a flaming sword leading a loyal band of Avengers. It’ll be the courage to stop pretending to be happy.
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If men are to save the world, it won’t be a Final Solution that cleanses the world of disorder. It’ll be the courage to accept unhappiness.
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The world cannot be saved by either yin or yang alone. Total victory by either leaves no space for the other. The loneliest thing is to dance alone.
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Most people don’t have a good enough relationship with themselves to dance with themselves. There’s an aspect of self-hatred to loneliness since there’s a rejection of someone who has been and always is there for you.
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