I present two charts of anthropological data on the Social-Behavioural Characteristics of different kinds of societies, generated in the 1960s by James Prescott, drawing on the classification work of Textor et al.
Professor James Prescott is a scholar who has spent most of his career looking at human behavioural psychology, with a focus on how adults relate to a treat children, from an anthropological and mental health perspective.
Basic Anthropology.
These charts prepared by Professor Prescott show that there is a clear association between sexual violence and the existence of hierarchies of power, and of wealth. Wealth, in this context is to be understood as any resource that is concentrated in the hands of a minority, and thus controlled to maintain power over the majority.
Wealth-as-Power as political and economic systems occurs where a minority exploit a majority to extract resources and concentrate them and then weaponise those resources to maintain the systems of exploitation.
Exploitation always causes harm.
When the harmed dissent, concessions are offered to quieten the dissent, and went the harmed resist, violence is deployed to crush that resistance.
Maintaining Power.
An adult slapping a child to force the child to meet the adults perceived needs is the same dynamic as the USA Ruling Class deploying covert and overt warfare against another state to meet the perceived needs of the Ruling Class of the USA. It is of critical important that readers understand that Militarism is psychopathy institutionalised.
In biology, it is clear that every species that thrives presents a range of behaviours, behaviours which have to be in the majority of action, healthy for that species and healthy for the shared environment in which that species thrives.
There are no Alpha Male Wolves in Nature.
We know the story of the first 'proof' of Alpha Male behaviour - Adolescent Wolves studied in captivity, by
L. David Mech, where those wolves presented hierarchically violent behaviour, and the assumption was made that this behaviour was normal wolf behaviour.
Certain ideologically interested groups then promoted the narrative to affirm the naturalness of violent hierarchy amongst human males.
However when the same scientist decided a few years later to study wolves in the wild, he found a completely different set of behaviours that were egalitarian, as in the behaviour of a wolf family was modulated to nurture the entire group, with the different dynamics of each wolves behaviour fitting into the whole.
It turns out the behaviour of the adolescent wolves in captivity, each of whom was captured and separated from their family and then transported into captivity, a terrifying traumatising experience, to say the least, mirrored that of the prison system in the United States of America.
He has spent his entire career trying to undo the damage his assumptions caused. To this date, he has failed, not for want of trying, but because the prevailing systems of wealth-as-power dominance have taken every step to affirm their natural right to dominate, and to exercise the violence they do to maintain that dominance.
Most adult males still believe in the Alpha Male falsehood.
Even if they themselves are kind, decent, nurturing adult males.
Racism.
The ideology of Racialism and Racism is similarly based on false assumptions, drawn from The Bible and the story of the the Tribe of Ham.
The "Curse of Ham" is a misused biblical narrative (Genesis 9) where Noah curses his grandson Canaan to servitude, which was historically distorted by Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions to justify slavery and anti-Black racism. It falsely associated Ham’s descendants with Black Africans and skin color, despite no mention of race in the text.
This is well explained by Jacqueline Battalora in her book 'Birth of a White Nation'.
Thrivival is not mere survival.It is abundantly clear that sexual violence is not healthy and that it cannot be accepted as part of normative or healthy human behaviour.
If it were, we as humans and as persons would have adapted to it, survivors would not present the wounds of traumatisation or the dysfunctional behavioural patterns associated with it.
Nobody adapts to being traumatised. We cope with it, some better than others, yet coping is not thriving.
The meaning of the Epstein Files.
The release of the Epstein Files is strategic - it is designed to make it impossible to form up neutral juries to adjudicate in criminal trials.
It is also being exploited to distract, to be used as a political weapon, and to erase the voices of Survivors who have already presented ample testimony under oath of their experiences, naming names.
What should have happened
What should have happened is that criminal indictments were issued for each case, arrests made, without bail (due to the seriousness of the crimes) and trials should have gone forwards.
The files should have been deployed to support those indictments, and when the accused would have been tried and convicted, the files then placed in the public domain.
We have ample evidence that every institution of Power adopts a defensive strategic and tactical stance when allegations of criminal abuse within the scope of the institutions activities - the objective is to evade accountability, retain status, image, wealth and Power irrespective of the costs to those harmed.
The manner in which The Catholic Church, The Protestant Church and others and various States and their Governments have addressed historical sexual violence against children within institutions of care that they have operated is instructive. Truth and Reconciliation processes, Statuary Inquires have all failed to address the issue in such manner as to educate society at large and thus prevent further Sexual Violence.
Survivors are all too well aware of the realities of evasion of full accountability, redress, honesty and healing and recovery.
It mirrors the lack of accountability for war crimes we are all witness to today. The two issues, sexual violence and warfare, are connected.
This is an existential issue for humanity as a whole.
I have been writing about this for two decades.
I am a Survivor of Sexual Violence and have survived extremes of Adult Physical and Psychological Violence perpetrated upon me as a child.
Sexual Violence is not healthy for our species.
Physical violence against children is not healthy for our species.
Psychological violence against children is not healthy for our species.
Sexual Violence and Militarism are part of the same behaviour set.
These two charts presented above indicate the clear association between adult violence against children and the emergence of hierarchically violent cultures, they are based on surveys of 57 different cultures, using a classification system for anthropological data generated by Textor et al in the 1960s.
Since the creation of these two charts a lot more evidence and data has emerged across a range of disciplines to expand on and confirm the basic insight laid out.
Anyone who is genuinely interested in stepping beyond dramatics, sentimentality and fear to address the issues of sexual violence and war fare ought to be well informed in the evidence base.
