Swarthmore being one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.
What I am becoming more and more conscious of, however, is not so much the confusing state of women's 'self-identities' within society - which is definitely real enough - but the subtle changes in male iconography.
It used to be that one of the quiet, slightly folkloric items of scuttlebutt inside of mainstream intelligence and counter-intelligence communities, was that some operatives could 'beat the lie-detector.' This was based on authentic research about neural networks and their operation, and the idea that when someone consciously understands how a thing operates inside the whole brain, it is possible to divert response nerves with deliberate distracting measures you take that others cannot see or detect that you are employing.
Well things have moved a long way down the road from those days and frankly, I don't think it is possible anymore to deceive a full-suite 'lie detector' screening.
Why this is important - is that it is bad policy to try and fabricate things to the CIA if you are in any way engaging with them. And that also means in turn, that the people there have a massive responsibility to do the right thing at all times.
It is utterly critical in today's world, to align behind some positive forward direction intended to provide a beneficial and functioning, functional, legacy for the future.
This has got to emerge as a broad social phenomenon.
It cannot be, that people accept it is possible to cut any moral corners 'just' for the sake of seeming security goals.
One possible slogan could be 'don't cut any moral corners, ever.' We become the thing we are claiming to stand against -, to be fighting against, when we cut those corners ourselves in the name of some specious overriding objective. There are none. There are no 'overriding objectives.'
It's possible to not like some process or procedure that is unfolding because we live in an imperfect world. But that is not the same thing as making a pretense of creating 'perfection' by just 'slightly' getting a little bit pregnant!
This is where the UK has gone, this is the road it has taken recently and I don't think it will easily find the way back.
John Brennan is an operative of people centered in Luxembourg, not Washington. There are many words to describe him and I don't feel this is the place to use them...
Brennan currently works for something known as the 'Global Strategies Group.'
Social 'movements' have become, these days, all 'global movements,' and that is because they are part of a 'global strategy.'
I have been slowly learning what would be easily identified as a 'woman' projecting authentically in a woman's mindset in the middle of a contemporary social (meaning also in a multi-gender work environment too) context. The proposition that has been put to me - and which I accept - is that there is and has been very much in evidence, such a thing as 'the false feminine.'
But what is the authentic masculine? Now? Nowadays, as opposed to the days of my and your fathers?
Dale Brisby is the correct answer.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a quality answer.
ReplyDeleteFor sure. Urbanism is devoid of positive masculine role models. They are either criminal rap thugs, or fey soy drenched limp wristed white dudes who wear their jammies to Starcucks. Meanwhile out in the real world there is a horde of roughnecks, wranglers, loggers, miners, who walk the talk on a daily basis. Pop culture does not represent them. For a reason.
ReplyDelete'Pop culture does not represent them. For a reason.' Great point. I'm going to give this the stage next article.
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