The first seven editions of History In The Making have brought us from Leo Varadkar to Leonard Cohen (via Leonardo di Caprio).
Now seems like a good time to pause and take stock.
Here is a quick canter through what I have written so far.
For over a year, government has repeatedly warned the public that “the spread of Covid-19… pose[s an]…exceptional and manifest risk…to human life and public health”. Not only can I find no objective evidence that this is true, but a growing number of signs indicate the opposite, i.e. that we are being deceived.
This leads us into the thorny topic of “conspiracy theories”. However, little digging is needed to unearth several officially-sanctioned conspiracies to deceive the public. We know about them because the perpetrators were publicly exposed. While we await a similar exposé in the case of Covid-19, numerous theories as to what’s really going on are doing the rounds.
Simon Elmer argues that the clampdown on human rights was imposed by greedy capitalists and ruthless politicians to steal wealth and power from the rest of us. The result, he believes, is “a technological totalitarianism which…will make those of the Twentieth Century look like crude prototypes in comparison”.
Kevin Galalae claims that the pandemic is a desperate plan hatched by the United Nations to halt climate change by locking down societies across the planet. He accuses the UN and its constituent governments of using fear and deception to coerce people into sacrifices they would not make voluntarily.
While these two theories may be true, they do not explain fully the vast scale of the crisis facing us. What we see going on around us is the culmination of a war between good and evil that has been raging for millennia. This conflict intensified during the last 2,000 years and has now reached a climax. The world we know – our culture, our civilisation - is in the grip of “the ruler of this world”. Those who oppose him have a choice to make.
Whether through chance or design, Homo sapiens has developed faster and better than all other fauna. Reinforced by what the Bible and other ancient sources have told us, we believe that our species is entitled to dominate the Earth. We automatically equate our fortunes with those of the planet, its other inhabitants, and its resources. So are we “the ruler of this world”?
Or is it just men? Our world is designed and run by men, for men. So it would be wrong to allot responsibility for humanity’s sorry history of pillage and persecution equally between the two sexes. We have been conditioned to believe that women are inferior to men - but they are not. Perhaps that is the greatest and oldest conspiracy of them all.
Would women do a better job than men? Of course we cannot know what the world would be like if the female aspect of humanity predominated. But could our plight be any worse than it is now?
Our past is a history of male domination. Yes, from time to time individual women rise to the top. But female political leaders like Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher were not the vanguard of some new matriarchy. They achieved supremacy by beating men at their own game. Those prime ministers could be said to have achieved the status of honorary men. And their male colleagues and counterparts recognised that reality when they described each woman as “the only man in the Cabinet” or “the Iron Lady”.
In my last post I cited a radical feminist who demanded “a full-on revolution… a cleansing fire”. Maybe that is what is needed. But whether they were successful or not, previous revolutions (sparked by men) left only winners and losers.
William of Orange beat James II.
Robespierre beat Louis XVI.
Lenin beat Nicholas II.
That sort of revolution changes nothing. It simply transfers power from one puppet to another and the “ruler of this world” carries on.
But what if we accepted that his latest plan to lead humanity into Nirvana would, like all his previous schemes, plunge us deeper into Hell? What if we turned finally to the only authority that can now save us and him?
Or, to put it another way…
What if men willingly cede the reins of power to women, not because we think it is their turn, but for the sake of all humanity, now and to come?
And, instead of relegating men to the secondary status previously theirs, what if women were then to invite men to join them as equal partners in creating a new world?