incidentally, this issue to which I allude in my little analysis of one of Jordan Peterson's diagrams—this issue of where Daughters are supposed to come from, if there's only one Father who only wants a Son—is central to the fundamental *absurdity* of #Christian monism.

(1/x)
the scheme is oversimplified to the point of inanity—so fixedly insistent upon the primacy of masculinity to the point that there's *no room* for more than token representation of femininity, as one sees with reactionary expulsion of the Blessed Mary from #Christian canon.

(2/x)
even the #Catholic Church, the Church of the @Pontifex, would rather not that Catholics talked too loudly about the Blessed Mary. they've guiltily permitted some folk worship of Mary, in various aspects—otherwise their dour, manly faith would have had little mass appeal.

(3/x)
and needless to say, the intellectual and spiritual degeneracy of #evangelical #Christianity, as seen in the grotesque careers of right-wing grifters and scam artists like @dalepartridge and @PastorMark and @pastorlocke (and @jordanbpeterson), has made matters far worse.

(4/x)
the shrivelled, collapsed "#faith" of @PastorMark &c. has no room for most of humanity—their own eschatology predicts a global purge, winnowing the human populace down to a small gang of Elect. #Christianity *specifies* a future of genocide and extinction. it's intrinsic.

(5/x)
know this.

when Dr. @jordanbpeterson or Mr. @MattWalshBlog or Rev. @Franklin_Graham, or any other #Christian or otherwise Jesus-flavored blowhard in public life, spout their blather about how #globalwarming is a Commie plot or whatever...

...they are *cheerleading*.

(6/x)
Dr. @jordanbpeterson is not wholly ignorant of #globalwarming (probably...it's tough to tell with him.)

but he can *never* be convinced that it's a problem worth solving, because it's not a problem he wants solved.

he wants death and destruction. he WANTS Hell on Earth.

(7/x)
and there's a very good reason Dr. @jordanbpeterson wants Hell, so very very badly.

he's already there, and he needs company.

~Mona Drafter

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how does the locked-in rigidity of the social structures established by #Christianity and #capitalism play out on an *individual* level? face-to-face, person to person?

Western society applies the values of *social dominance* to individual interactions and conversations.

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the central principle is very simple: whenever two people interact, one of the two is *socially superior*, and the other is *socially inferior*. person A, interacting with person B, is in some unspoken way "better" than person B: they are the *socially dominant party*.

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what is a #matrix, anyway?

there's lots of answers to this question, especially in these dismal days of runaway #capitalism, which uses *everything* for #marketing and #branding, even things like elementary particles and prepositions.

it's a movie franchise, for one.

(1/x)
there's some chat protocol called "Matrix" that we know basically nothing about. "Matrix" is a character in the movie "Commando". Martin Gardner (peace be upon him), who once wrote a popular mathematics column for @sciam, created a fictional "Dr. Matrix", a numerologist.

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(3/x) illustration of a 4 x 4 mat...
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there's so much that can be said about "The #Matrix". so much *has* been said--most of it has been utter garbage.

that's not a simple Sturgeonesque lament about how most things are crap. (I don't agree with Sturgeon anyway.)

it's *malicious*. it's willful misinformation.

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(2/x) publicity photograph of Elo...
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all physical sensations are blunted, one's memory is seriously impaired, and people call you "absent minded" and "clumsy" a lot.

(3/x)
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