Sublime

Our patriarchal, warmongering, growth-and-domination-based culture has caused runaway climate change, the mass extinction of species, and the ongoing destruction of wild and natural landscapes in the unstoppable pursuit of progress. At

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patriarchy mystifies technology, casting it as a domain beyond the possibility of comprehension for all but certain experts. Mystification hides the economics of accumulation that technologies serve, turning people’s attention to a marvelous innovation instead of the extraction it enables.

Chaos, the eternal feminine, is also the crushing force of sexual selection. Women are choosy maters (unlike female chimps, their closest animal counterparts39). Most men do not meet female human standards. It is for this reason that women on dating sites rate 85 percent of men as below average in attractiveness.

But humanity has perfectly mastered artificial reproduction, without the need for mating or males. So, for the first time in human history, the end of the male gender is a real possibility.

Western anthropologists have long insisted that there are no real matriarchies, if by ‘matriarchy’ we mean the opposite of ‘patriarchy’. But if patriarchy begins with the dominion of the father over his family and ends with the ruler over his subjects, as Robert Filmer wrote centuries ago in his Patriarcha, it’s hard to argue that matrilineal and m