Laurens Buijs
Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team
Artwork: I, Pet Goat II, Heliophant
Androgyny-Based Gender Theory (ABGT) states that humans evolved as a matriarchal species on the Savannah some 300,000 years ago, and that humans suddenly became patriarchal 12,800 years ago as a result of collective trauma caused by a large comet impact (see also AGTRT-BA1, AGTRT-BA3, AGTRT-BA4).
This comet impact is described in the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), a hypothesis in geology that has long been controversial but is gaining momentum due to recent breakthroughs. More and more scientists are coming to the conclusion that the hypothesis is proven, and it is likely that the hypothesis will soon gain the status of “proven theory” throughout established science.
This is an absolute breakthrough, because it means an end to a powerful and influential frame of mind that can best be described as “gradualism”: the idea that change on Earth in a general sense is gradual and incremental, in small steps, and that all those small steps taken together over a long period of time lead to big changes. This thinking is ingrained in Darwinian evolutionary theory, for example, and in Hutton’s geological principles.
Broad embrace of the YDIH breaks with that idea of gradualism, and sets a new frame of mind against it: catastrophism. This is the idea that the great changes on earth are not gradual, but sudden, with great global disasters. For a long time this thinking has been dismissed in established science as pseudoscientific, and something that would stem from the sensationalist uneducated. It would echo mythical and unscientific folk tales of lost civilizations, Atlantis and the Great Flood from the Bible (see also AGTRT-BA10).
For exactly this reason, the YDIH has also long been dismissed as unscientific. But since 2016, an organized and international team of scientists has come together under the name Comet Research Group (CRG), and they have set the crowbar on gradualism, and forced space for catastrophism, with a series of compelling scientific interventions.
Because catastrophism can be seen as diametrically opposed to gradualism, and because both frames of thought involve many interests and fields of study, it is to be expected that embracing catastrophism will lead to a scientific revolution, as described in the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (1962). That book had an enormous impact on the philosophy of science, changing the way people thought about scientific progress.
In his book, Kuhn introduced the concept of paradigms and paradigm shifts. Kuhn argued that scientific progress is not so much gradual accumulation (accumulation or expansion) of knowledge, but rather jump changes that occur when an old way of thinking (paradigm) is replaced by a new one. Scientific progress goes with dam breakthroughs: a current paradigm persists until so much evidence is accumulated to the contrary that the paradigm finally “breaks through” and a major shift in collective thinking occurs.
Such a great revolutionary change now awaits humanity in embracing the YDIH. This is relevant to ABGT because in ABGT it is assumed that the comet impact had a devastating effect on human coexistence that we struggle with to this day. ABGT argues that humans suffered patriarchal trauma from the comet impact: humans, by nature a sensitive, empathic and equality-loving being, switched to the functions of the reptilian brain out of trauma. Those functions were driven by fear and stress, leading humans to live in vertical, authoritarian social structures in which cognition and rationality became more important than emotion and intuition.
In AGTRT-BA24 uses insights from Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, among others, to describe how patriarchal trauma has altered our consciousness: masculinity and femininity are seen as two different forms of knowledge that in patriarchal humans have become embroiled in an internal struggle, rather than complementing each other symbiotically, as in matriarchal man (see also AGTRT-BA9).
Thus, in ABGT, the terms patriarchy and matriarchy are not defined in terms of whether men or women are in charge, but in terms of how masculine and feminine knowledge are structured in the SGI. If these two forms of knowledge are organized vertically and in conflict with each other, people will organize patriarchally. If these two forms of knowledge are organized horizontally and in symbiosis with each other, then people will organize matriarchally. A patriarchal culture floats on fear and is authoritarian in nature; a matriarchal culture floats on trust and is reciprocal in nature.
That patriarchy originated some 12,000 years ago has long been embraced in fairly broad scholarly circles. Thus, the idea that humans are simply born as an authoritarian species and that authoritarian fear reflexes are always intrinsic to human coexistence has long been shaken. But with the embrace of the YDIH, the patriarchal system will receive the final blow: then will come the understanding that patriarchy is not only recent and out of step with the nature of our species, but also that patriarchy is a destructive system that drives on trauma and oppression.
Patriarchy is unraveled in ABGT as a very evil system at its core, leading in many ways to a “pathocracy.” This is a term of Polish psychologist Andrzej Lobaczewski, which he described in detail in his book Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (2006), in which he describes the phenomenon of political systems and regimes dominated by psychopaths and people with antisocial personality disorder. Lobaczewski describes how psychopaths use lies, manipulation and double lives to overwhelm ordinary, naive people and seize power.
Psychopathy is referred to in ABGT in Jungian terms as a personality disorder in which the Anima is entirely repressed from the personality structure (see AGTRT-BA14). This is an extreme outgrowth of patriarchal trauma, and the result of growing up in a heternormative nuclear family where masculine and feminine roles are strictly separated and highly hierarchically ordered offered to the child. This leads to serious disruption in secondary gender identity (SGI, see AGTRT-BA24), the place where things like power and libido are regulated and from which the reward system is controlled.
This is the reason that psychopathy is usually associated with a variety of serious sexual disorders, which can lead the individual to turn to serious sex crimes such as rape, sexual exploitation and pedosexual abuse in later life. Although the percentage of psychopaths in a patriarchal culture is very small (estimated to be around 1%), they can easily climb to the top in a culture driven by fear and control. This is why psychopaths are often found in the upper ranks of patriarchal cultures, which are intrinsically pyramidically organized and fear-based.
ABGT states that humanity is in the late patriarchy from about 1960 to 2024. This is the last piece of the 12,800-year-old patriarchal cultural evolution, marked by all kinds of waves of feminism and sexual emancipation, but also of far-reaching development of individualism, specialist knowledge and high-tech. In this last piece of patriarchy, patriarchal pathocracy is under high stress.
The patriarchal system has made an ultimate attempt at a totalitarian power grab in recent decades (see AGTRT-BA27), and humanity is thus collectively confronted with what Carl Jung calls the Shadow: evil in its purest form (see also AGTRT-BA28). However, it seems that this power grab is failing miserably, as authoritarian and totalitarian philosophies (such as woke) and institutions (such as WEF) around the world are losing influence and credibility.
The Economist wrote this week about the impending implosion of the global liberal system: an entirely new world order is coming, in which the excesses of patriarchal pathocracy (such as imperialism, warfare and oppression) will play less and less of a role. The patriarchy came into existence with a sudden thump, and will also fall over with a sudden thump. That moment has now come.
What is needed now is the emergence of a group of wayfarers who fully understand the nature of human consciousness, based on knowledge of the conditions under which humans can return to matriarchal coexistence after 12,800 years of patriarchal repression (see AGTRT-BA19). It is high time for humanity worldwide to reorganize into matriarchal forms of society in which the nuclear family is broken open (see AGTRT-BA4 and AGTRT-BA5), monogamy is abandoned (see AGTRT-BA22) and the tribe is reinstated. Only then will the gentle androgynous core of man regain its space, and the foundation can be built for a whole new kind of civilization: the high-tech matriarchy.
But to get there, we must now first look the beast in the mouth: we will not get out of patriarchy until we have looked at the evil on which it thrives in its fullness (see AGTRT-BA28). And there is only one way to do that: by courageously expressing our repressed female anger, which, after 12,800 years of repression, yearns for a valve (see AGTRT-BA26).
Stages of patriarchal cultural evolution
- Unity and decay (14,000 – 12,000 years ago)
- Late matriarchy: cracks in tribe structure, unrest in (hypothetical) matriarchal world civilizations, increasing decadence, far-reaching challenge of non-duality
- Shock and survival (12,000 – 10,000 years ago)
- Early patriarchy: comet impact, crisis and shock, short-term survival, first patriarchs seize power. The masculine and feminine principles are torn apart through the rise of the nuclear family. Beginning of the Young Dryas: last tail of the Ice Age
- Hierarchy and agriculture (10,000 – 8,000 years ago)
- Rise of large-scale agriculture: emergence of hierarchical settlements
- Rationality and technology (8,000 – 6,000 years ago)
- Emergence of instrumental rationality: wheel, metallurgy, irrigation
- Kings and cities (6,000 – 4,000 years ago)
- Rise of the king and emergence of urban civilizations: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, Indus Valley. Through trade networks, ideas, technologies and cultural practices spread. Bronze Age
- Empires and religions (4,000 – 2,000 years ago)
- Emergence of empires: Akkadian, ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian. Also emergence of world religions. Iron Age
- Philosophy and duality (2,000 years ago – year 2020)
- Restructuring and consolidation of world civilizations, classical antiquity, Middle Ages: philosophical and spiritual development. Emergence of high-tech: renaissance, enlightenment and industrial revolution. Late patriarchy: rise of individualization and feminism. Rise of neoliberalism: increasing decadence, growing gap between rich and poor, totalitarian tendencies. Crisis in the anthropocene
- Transition and confrontation (year 2020 – year 2040)
- Interwar. Transition from late-patriarchy to early-matriarchy. Social unrest, confrontation with the Shadow, polarization, global crisis. Fall of the first patriarchs, cracks in the patrix. Ultimately: integration of opposites, non-duality
- Balance and unity (from year 2040 – 4,000 AD)
- Commencement of early matriarchy. Rediscovering Gaia: balance man and planet. Reorientation in the cosmic order. Spiritual renaissance, non-duality science and religion, sexual revolution and opening up the nuclear family. Start of the Novacene
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