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| Dedicated to my mother, Dema Savage (1932-2012) |
It is international women's day, and as such I offer this modest
proposal to heal what humans have become.
It is a gloomy aspect as we
look upon the violence plaguing us today. The poor are forced to go on Kickstarter
to raise money to buy their guns, and there is little work for them besides
enlisting to fight in seven official, and scores of unofficial, wars on
countries the U.S. empire seeks to control. Or they may be counted lucky to find
work with contractors feeding from the federal trough, building weapons of mass
destruction with which to threaten the poor sitting on resources in every part
of the globe.
I think it is agreed by all
parties, that the prodigious number of angry, and heavily armed, males, among
the U.S. population, is a grievance borne by all; schemes for gathering up
their weaponry in a general amnesty, such as emanated from Canberra these
decades since, have fallen on barren ground. Each outburst by a self-pitying
male who sees, in his power to destroy by means of machines perfectly designed
to do so, a balm to his emotional pain, perversely drives more people to rush to buy more guns. Seemingly an endless circle of cause and effect that
has presently reached a fever pitch of irrationality in the call to arm, and train,
teachers in order to protect the schools from attacks by madmen. Or perhaps not
mentally ill males, simply white males that feel they have not received their
entitlements, and are consequently lashing out, with ridiculously powerful
guns.
As to my own part, having
turned my thoughts for many years, upon this important subject, and maturely
weighed the several schemes, I have found them grossly mistaken in their
computation.
The problem we face is that of
a severe imbalance and distemper resulting from the presence of too many males
in the world. Their numbers have caused them to become disproportionately in
charge on account of sheer aggressiveness, competitiveness amongst their numbers,
and propensity for loud, self-proclaiming speech and showy possessions.
To restore the natural balance
of peace and prosperity once enjoyed by human societies that were
non-competitive, cooperative and unmaterialistic, I propose that we reduce the
relative numbers of males to females to, perhaps, 1 to 4. This may not be the
precise ratio most likely to bestow felicitous results on humankind, but it
would be a start, and it could be adjusted.
If males were in the minority,
their competitive and aggressive tendencies would be much diluted. As a
collateral benefit, their very scarceness would render them the attention and
regard that many mass shooters find so painfully elusive.
The present patriarchal systems
of hierarchy and extortion could be intelligently dismantled by networks of
cooperatively-minded women, often mothers and grandmothers, whose first care is
for the wellbeing of the young. To those who would claim that women will be not
better governors, that is perhaps so, as the bulk of women in government at
present have indeed clawed their way to the top of a patriarchal system. My
modest proposal is simply this: that women would be much less successful mass
shooters; because, to date, there is a dearth of mass shootings in the U.S. these three
score decades perpetrated by women.
Lest you think my proposal
itself calls for violence, let me hasten to assure you that it does not. Simple
demographics could be used to implement a correction almost immediately, albeit slowly, with the effect building over a generation or two to achieve a harmonious
ratio of females to males alive at any given time. Simple procedures which can be obtained easily with
household ingredients will be all that is needed to tip the scale back toward a
sustainable, sensible and sane world in which random shootings occur in all
sorts of locations.
I profess, in the sincerity of
my heart, that I have not myself promoted this necessary work, for it is an
understanding which came to me relatively late in life. I share it now, having
no other motive than the public good of my country, and my planet.
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