The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Feminism would seem to be a good starting point. Our brave new overly 
connected world, however, is showing signs of big changes with 
uncertain consequences. For example, women are enrolling in college at 
higher rates than men, and female graduation rates far surpass those of 
males. All the statistics show that those with college degrees out-earn 
those who do not graduate. This is bound to shift the balance of 
economic power toward women, despite the continuing disparity in 
male/female wages for the same job.

The traditional male professions: medicine and law, will soon be held 
by a majority of women. Engineering and some other graduate programs 
still lag, but the gap is shrinking. The chairs of most departments are 
still held by men, but this cannot last.

It's not that men will never relinquish authority to women, it's that 
they are ceding the field(s). What this signifies for the future is 
uncertain. It has always been a biological fact that society, 
especially in times of stability and peace, needs far fewer men than 
women. How many paratroopers or navy seals do we really need? What the 
world will be like with more aimless under-employed probably alienated 
men is difficult to say, but I'm not overly optimistic. Can you say, 
Oxytocin?

Despite this, in certain parts of India, for just one example, female 
fetuses when detected by ultrasound are routinely aborted in favor of 
males.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion

The problem is inherent in our cultures and our genes, but it must be 
faced for what it is.



-----Original Message-----
From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, Dec 16, 2012 12:03 pm
Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)


The idea, of course, is feminism.  The problem is that on Planet Earth, 
men will
not relinquish authority to women.  So women have to make their 
personal
bargains with the devil to survive. Feminism is not going to gain 
traction via
Facebook posts and online petitions.  It's not going to take hold 
because a few
more women are elected to the Senate.  The sexist outpourings from 
progressive
men alone, during the Obama versus Hillary primary, was as offensive 
and
repellent as it gets.  Men will never relinquish power to women, unless 
there's
no power to relinquish (i.e., when it's obvious to everyone that 
Congress is
just a corporate subsidiary, then they can afford to have some cute 
girls
hosting it).  The strategy for relegating men to a long-term equal or
subordinate role in governing hasn't been invented yet.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: bandwraith at aol.com
>Sent: Dec 16, 2012 4:51 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
>
>Demonizing the shooter's mother is the wrong way to go. It may come 
out
>that she deserves some blame- just buying the guns in my rad-liberal
>brain (despite my testosterone)- is not a good thing. But there is an
>exponential difference between buying, collecting, target shooting at 
a
>range and the horrendous random killing of twenty innocent children.
>
>The burden should not just fall on the shoulders' of mothers: to be
>both the familial counterpoint to the inherent violence of their male
>children (and mates), as well as, too often, the victims of it.
>
>Men and women are not equal when it comes to the underlying
>psycho-physical tendencies to commit mass murder. This needs to be
>acknowledged and dealt with- not necessarily by hiring more cops with
>more glocks. Got any ideas?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
>To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 11:23 pm
>Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
>
>
>And according to friends, the shooter's mom was a gun freak who
>encouraged her
>sons to go to the shooting range with her.
>
>Laura
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>>Sent: Dec 15, 2012 11:08 PM
>>To: bandwraith at aol.com
>>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)
>>
>>Women will promptly hand those guns over to some man,  either "Mr.
>Right"  or a
>son or a brother - someone.   The Sandy Hook killer's guns were
>registered in
>his mom's name.
>>
>>Bekah
>>
>>On Dec 15, 2012, at 4:15 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Adopt "Smart Gun" technology for all new guns.
>>>
>>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Gun
>>>
>>> 2. After a grace period, all new ammunition must be smart gun
>specific- i.e.,
>will only work in smart guns.
>>>
>>> 3. Women can legally buy as many guns, bazookas, rocket launchers,
>etc., as
>the like.
>>>   3a. Men cannot and are not permitted to own guns of any kind.
>>>
>>> Because actually, the problem is not guns, its testosterone. Women
>occassionally go nuts and drown their kids, or drag them into a suicide
>scenario, but this is rare. There are, to my knowledge, no documented
>massacres
>of innocents by women in the U.S. All of them have been perpetrated by
>men. We
>need to acknowledge this fact and deal with it accordingly.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>> To: Amany Rocco Kaiser <amanyroccokaiser at hotmail.com>
>>> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 2:14 pm
>>> Subject: Re: NP Misc.
>>>
>>>
>>> I heartily agree. Twain spoke to it a hundred years back, to the
>effect that
>we ignite a bunker and throw each other into the flames. Let's see,
>how'd he put
>that.... "We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the fire
>department
>to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then
>innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that sweeps the land
>as a
>consequence." - Speech, between October 5 and October 17, 1907. We feed
>psychotropic drugs to people whose minds are already weakened and
>deluded into a
>perspective that sees slaughter as common and who are living 
hopelessly
>at the
>edge, then we sell them guns. All the guns they want.
>>>
>>>
>>> Al queda won, exposing the greatest terrorist network ever devised.
>And we
>are that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A Dionysian age is in its full frenzy, taking innocents by the
>score. The
>Apollonians have work to do. I think few generations have been called
>upon to
>rebuild on the ruins of such a society as reigns today, but the coming
>generation is tasked with just that. My question is how can we help,
>now that we
>have let so much that is bad take root? There's work to be done, that
>much I
>believe.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Amany Rocco Kaiser
><amanyroccokaiser at hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> We must consider what is behind it.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly
>sick
>>> society.<<
>>> If it is a matter of "guilt," the people will not be the great 
judge
>of this
>court. Because the indictee here is the people themselves ...
>>>
>>>
>>> ARK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:48:49 -0500
>>>> Subject: Re: NP Misc.
>>>> From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
>>>> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
>>>> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>
>>>>
>>>> considering what's happened in Connecticut today, a very heavy
>feeling
>>>> weighs one down. suppose thats what u were referring, too
>>>>
>>>> Hartford Courant @hartfordcourant
>>>>
>>>> One entire classrom is unaccounted for outside the school, sources
>>> said
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> > "The tragic is above all a property which we observe in events,
>>> fortunes,
>>>> > characters and the like, wnd which actually
>>>> > exists in them. We might say that it is given off by them like a
>>> heavy
>>>> > breath, or seems like an obscure glimmering that surrounds them."
>>>> > ---On the Tragic, Max
>>>> > Scheler, 1954
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