Here's a few recent thoughts uncluttered with world affairs and ongoing resistance and recovery...
Honesty is Science. When Scientific data is wilfully mis-interpreted, it ceases to be Science. You can quote me on that.
Here is Charity debunked, gracefully yet with such gorgeous vehemence!
"True
compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes to see
that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
What an elegant use of words, nothing wasted, each word full of meaning, of maturity and empathy.
I think of the amount of work, care,
commitment, 'sacrifice' and energy the 'average' Mum and or single Mum's life; all that they do, to nurture, to stick with and submit to the reality of the child, to consistently assist a healthy child to
grow up into a healthy human being, to pursue his
or her own life in turn. That ain't charity!
I often think on the un-natural poverty of Societal
support for this most vital of human activities, this work of love, and of the willingness of some
ideologists to isolate and identify 'single mums' as a 'problem', all too ready to dehumanise them by stereotyping certain lone parents as
'benefit scroungers'.
I think about the willingness of others, ideologists and propagandists and religious zealots, to assume to INSTRUCT Mums, quite often to go against the Mothers own deepest instincts and feelings...
These are not nice thoughts. The experience of those at the receiving end is many, many times worse. It's more than thoughts. It's lives.
The Bureaucratic fig leaf of 'parental leave' .. what a dull phrase that is in our lexicon. Such a small amount of time, given as a concession to the economy. How meagre! How cruelly efficient!
I was watching Kangaroo Dundee. A very busy man.
Yes, this man has become a 'Mum', albeit
of adopted abandoned Kangaroos... fluffy animals makes us coo.
Men CAN mother.... when we really WANT to.
Benefits Addicted Mums make us scowl. Check the comments section when ever the Guardian ' Comment is Free' column starts a thread on this subject in response to some Government Minister pronouncing on the next 'plan' to deal with the 'problem'.
Yes, the public - actually, the wolf that calls itself the media, pretending to represent the public 'opinion' - will happily let the Government scowl at the Mum. As if it were ALL her 'fault'. Transferring the problem.
LOOK AT WHAT IT TAKES. TAKE IT
IN. BE HONEST.
THAT'S a work load. Huge amounts of all kinds of energy required. For a LONG time!
Especially during infancy. The slow segregation of Mother and Father into discrete 'roles'
as full-time caretakers and breadwinners, separated from their extended family and their community looks more and more like a culturally
induced avoidance strategy. Conditioned slacking.
Irrespective of what primates may or may not do, our biology functions at it's best, in context, when the load is shared by a community of people who probably love each other to one degree or another. Oxytocin is a molecular expression of that reality.
Historically, - read the literature, don't take my word for it - Kings (and most
Queens) never seemed to like the messy WORK of parenting.
We
Industrialised Peoples live like Kings, in relative terms, with our gadgets, resources we use, land we use .... relative
to biology, anthropology, culture.
It is that work, care, commitment
and energy that is the core of a healthy functioning human community, it does take a village to care
for a child, indeed all the children of the community, at optimum biological state. A village in a natural setting, naturally.
Until
Motherhood/Fatherhood and community parenting are at the very core of
this Society, informing it's long term decision making processes and
behaviours, it will remain selfish in it's core psychology. And
unsustainable.
And it doesn't have to be that way.
We have brains.....
"The idea that the brain can change it's own
structure and function through thought and activity is, I believe the
most important alteration in our view of the brain since we first
sketched out its basic anatomy and the workings of its basic component,
the neuron.
The neuro-plastic revolution has implications for,
among other things, our understanding of how love, sex, grief,
relationships, learning, addiction, culture, technology, and psychotherapies change our brains.
All of the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences, in so far
as they deal with human nature, are affected, as are all forms of
training. All of these disciplines will have to come to terms with the
fact of the self-changing brain and with the realisation that the
architecture of the brain differs from one person to the next and that
it changes in the course of individual lives.
While the human
brain has apparently underestimated itself, neuro-plasticity isn't all
good news; it renders our brains not only more resourceful by also more
vulnerable to outside influences."
Norman Doidge "The Brain that changes itself"
We as people all have this capability, it is innate. And each of us needs an appropriate environment and experience for it's healthiest expression. We continually change and grow. Self healing. Solving problems. Then we die.
And what is innate in us, as individuals, must also be innate in a healthy functioning human community. Our optimum biological state. Where individuals live and die, and the community is sustainable over many millennia. Kinda state I'd
love to live in.
How we get there is a very interesting journey.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe
