One paragraph in an article by Tom Morgan, The Great Betrayal, landed very well with me.
As a culture, we have disrespected and systematically undervalued the “archetypal feminine.” Not only do we tend to pay caring or creative professions less, we’ve largely eliminated the role of the intuitive from our rationalist culture. But the “call to adventure” comes from each of our feminine sides, what Carl Jung called the anima. It offers new life, reconnection, love.
And I am pleased to see a man promoting our feminine side. Women have come a long way, but the journey is not over. Claudia Dommaschk and I will have more to say about Exploring the Fourth, and possibly Final, Wave of Feminism at Limicon 2024.
Tom writes,
Our masculine side often gets to the cusp of surrendering some control, usually in the form of money, then it retreats. We fear the chaos and lack the certainty that there’s anything better for us on the other side. Our Darwinistic and Newtonian worldviews situate us in an indifferent box of dead stuff where our primary task is to outcompete the other guy then die.
As men, we need to face the fact that we have built a civilization that is unsustainable. But more and more people are using more truthful phrasing. We are bordering on collapse.
My life’s work has been getting more people to trust the power of their own curiosity, simply what they love, as that guiding force. I’ve spent the last few months compressing ten years of research and personal experience into a twenty minute presentation. As I compiled the evidence, I felt it’s truth.
If you’ve been reading any of my work over the last few years you’ll have noticed I’ve been exploring a single core idea from as many different angles as I can.
This is because I believe that this idea can change the world.
An idea that holds the potential to shift our collective worldview will necessarily sound unusual to a lot of people. The purpose of my work has been to find a way to distill this idea into something that can be understood by the most people with the least loss of meaning. I jokingly call this “Minimum Viable Woo.”
To be more specific, I believe we have collectively become disconnected from something. I’ve spent the last couple of months distilling 10 years of work into a 25 minute presentation. It’s my attempt to explain why, and what that thing might be.
Tom envisions a very different world.
The global population of accountants would drop by 98% overnight.
Tom does not know that my career was being an accountant, but I do not disagree with him. I had a mediocre career in Game A, a system that I have lost faith in. In retirement, I have zero interest in preparing financial statements and would rather indulge my curiosity by exploring fourth wave feminism.
Hey- there’s 2% or much more that actually enjoy it ;)
Thanks for the comments and I’m glad my thoughts resonated.