AI, Patriarchy, Cognitive Warfare, Matrianarchy. A choice.

Artificial Intelligence is being developed from within a Wealth-as-Power Patriarchy system. Any tool is dependent on the way the user uses the tool. A shovel or a garden fork can be used to build a house or to till the land, and either can be used to kill someone and bury the body.

Choice matters.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and patriarchy intersect when automated systems adopt, repeat, and grow old social inequalities, specifically male dominance in the tech industry and historical gender biases in data and is deployed as a weapon system in combat operations and in Cognitive Warfare.

Artificial intelligence and cognitive warfare combine generative algorithms, big-data analytics, and psychological manipulation to target the human mind, erode trust, and alter behavior without using physical force.

What is Cognitive Warfare?

Cognitive warfare is an unconventional strategy that treats the human brain as a battlefield, using disinformation, artificial intelligence, and psychological manipulation to alter attitudes, behaviors, and societal cohesion without traditional kinetic combat.

Cognitive Warfare is psychological abuse. 

Cognitive warfare is the deliberate application of data to accomplish goals by influencing, degrading, or manipulating the mental processes of individuals or groups. Cognitive warfare uses psychological tactics instead of physical force. It uses lies, propaganda, and psychological operations (PSYOPs) to achieve its goals. Cognitive warfare encompasses a broad array of tactics designed to exploit cognitive biases, manipulate emotional responses, and alter the collective memory and identity of target populations. It goes beyond mere information warfare.

It should be criminalised.

Online social media is being exploited as a platform for Cognitive Warfare.

AI is being weaponised to enhance Cognitive Warfare.

Imagine an AI developed within a Matri-anarchy system? 

A social, economic and political system where power is shared as a collective responsibility. A societal system that centers the shared care of all our children as the core of a societies organisation and administration. A societal system that nurtures the shared environment into which the children will grow as adults, adults who will continue to do the same. Natural Child, Natural Society. The core theme of this blog.

Every societal system is a choice.  

Every line of computer coding is a choice.

In Patriarchy winning is always about domination at any expense to the dominated. That is always a choice.

13th Amendment to the US Constitution.

The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution is a choice. Slavery in USA’s prison system is one example.The prison system makes a profit at the expense of the imprisoned in a system that targets African Americans with long term sentences to ensure there is a substantive guaranteed workforce that can be exploited.

Sex Trafficking is a choice.

Sex Trafficking as a mult-billion dollar global operation that is ‘sucessful' is another. It is more successful than any attempts to erdiacte it. Andrew Tate is small fry in that ‘industry’, Esptein was small fry too, just aimed at a richer consumer base. The bulk of that industry is undeterred, and continuing at pace. The men who use that 'service' do so by choice.

Militarism is a choice.

I always preface any discussion on militarism with an axiom. Militarism is psychopathy institutionalised.

The Warfare of USA, Israel and its allies, of Russia and Ukraine is another example, where the shareholders of the Military Industrial Complex win, entire countries civil infrastructure is destroyed, millions of people are slaughtered, millions of people are irrevocably harmed for life, and the home populations have severe poverty issues, and where rampant misogyny, Racism and other forms of bigotry are curated as a political weapon to divide the population and prevent solidarity emerging …. so that billionaires can amass more wealth, more political power and evade accountability.

What is Patriarchy?

Patriarchy is a system of wealth-as-power where wealth was originally retained and controlled through male lineage inheritance which has developed into a global system of wealth-as-power where some women are permitted to assume the highest positions as long as they perpetuate that system of wealth extraction. Feminism seeks to dismantle that system precisely because it causes so much avoidable harm to women, to children and to men.

AI bubble?

AI is failing to deliver to its investors the kinds of profits they believed they would accrue and the Stock Market Bubble is potentially close to bursting.

I think that part of the reason behind this lack of return is that the drive to enhance AI was more about enhancing the political Power of Wealth-as-Power than it was about developing tools to help work solutions to problems we face as a culture and as humanity. The lure of the promise of useful tools for humanity was just that. A lure to investors to pump in funds so that AI proponents such as OpenAI, Grok, Google and others could gather the funding for their investment into the AI infrastructure that is necessary to enlarge cognitive warfare and battle field aspects of AI to outpace growing resistance to warfare and militarism.

The lure was a lie, the the lie is now failing to deliver the returns on investment, and the AI proponents are seeking more funding for more infrastructure which it an of itself cannot generate profits. And so the bubble is vulnerable to a burst.

However, the vast wealth that wealth-as-power holds is more than capable of absorbing that shock, wealth-as-power still controls most Western Governments at policy level, and the objective of wealth-as-power is domination at any expense to the population.

That is what Climate Disruption is showing us.

Bordeaux is being threatened by wildfires and there is no move to hold the fossil fuel shareholders and industry accountable.

Why is it that the Frence Military, roughly 115,000 active ground army personnel, alongside 47,000 reservists is not being mobilised en masse to take on the task of dealing with these wildfires?

A better choice is always available.

Imagine a society that runs as a Matrianarchy system? A social system where economic and political power is shared as a collective responsibility.

A societal system that centers the shared care of all our children as the core of a societies organisation and administration. A societal system that nurtures the shared enviornment into which the children will grow as adults, adults who will do the same.

It is possible. Every societal system is a choice.

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Patriarchy, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia : Bigotry is a Weapon of Wealth-as-Power aimed at all Egalitarian Humanity

Patriarchy

Patriarchy is, in my view, an institution of Wealth-as-Power that creates dynasty lineages, to hold onto wealth through generations, through male power and entitlement.

Misogyny

Misogyny is a bigotry curated by Patriarchy, through religion and culture 'values', indoctrination etc to divide the working men and women so that we don't stand in solidarity, when clearly we should.

Bigotry is an offensive weapon.

Every bigotry is curated by Wealth-as-Power, no baby is born ready to be bigoted, there are no bigotry genes or innate bigotry neurological pathways....it is all taught, with purpose.

The history of the invention of Racialism and Racism is clear on this. 

White Supremacy(Racism) is a bigotry explicitly curated by The British Oligarchic Patriarchy, the Plantation Owners, the ruling class of the Colonies on Turtle Island. It was carefully crafted, funded and organised campaign working through religion, culture 'values', indoctrination and specific legislation to divide the working men who were comprise of Europeans, Africans, Asians and Native peoples of the colonies so that they would not stand in solidarity, when clearly they could (Bacons Rebellion) and should have ( the working people were very much oppressed and exploited by the Oligarchy).

Children's Liberation

Our children bear a large part of the costs of all of this, and are routinely weaponised to fit into the systems of oppression, and as yet there is no Children's Liberation Movement.

The weaponisation of children typically refers to the manipulation of children by adults to achieve personal, political, religious or military goals, often causing profound emotional or physical harm to the child. 

It's quite a shocking experience to fully take on board just how much avoidable suffering all of this causes..

The grief that arrives upon recognising this and then understanding just how much has been lost to innumerable persons down the last 12,000 years of Wealth-as-Power cults is immense, as is the outrage that comes with the grief.

Bio-Logic Thrivival

So too the determination to do the work to dismantle these oppressive systems is a matter of immense love, a quest fuelled by awe and appreciation for what it is to be a truly egalitarian species by evolution, as a deep spirited drive to restore healthy relationships to one another as the core of human society, so that we live to thrive within and as integral participants in our shared environments.

"We are what we eat

we are the waters, we are the air,

we are the mountains,

we are the soil,

we are the trees whose shade is shared.

The creatures are our neighbours,

we are theirs,

we all start out as babies,

babies need nurturant care."

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Bears, Women and Men : internalisation of cultural values, development of affective state self-regulation.

A Bear in the Woods.....

Image by Erik Mandre via Shutterstock

Historically, for the major part of the existence of Homo sapiens, the people who lived in forests and woodlands were largely formed of egalitarian cultures.

The peoples that lived in forests knew and understood bears because they had lived together for many tens of thousands of years. The bears knew them. They knew each other well.

In egalitarian cultures rapes are rarer than bear attacks. And bear attacks are exceedingly rare. When they do happen, it is usually due to an accident rather than a deliberate intentional common action, a standard behavioural pattern.

So the issue raised by the bear question is a cultural issue.

No baby is born with a bigotry already in place.

There are no misogyny genes, there are no warrior genes, there are no racism genes, there are no xenophobia genes.

Our behaviour, is this regard, is learned within a cultural context. Hierarchically violent cultures curate bigotries.

We learn to walk, we learn to talk. We are taught to speak. Language is learned. Take an infant born to a mother in one language, and place that infant within another language group, and the child will learn the language of the secondary language group. There is no gene for any specific language.

Our learning of behaviour as we grow up occurs in and is influenced by the culture within which we live.

We internalise the values of the culture in such manner as to feel them as part of our core sense of self, our very identity. 

The invisible brain?

I have posted a link to an interesting (quite dense) lecture by Allan Schore on the neurobiology and neuroendocrinology of the development of emotional or affective state self regulation, with regards to the potential impacts of living conditions, environment, cultural practice upon these processes.

What goes one in our brains has been invisible, and is now being revealed as technology improves in examining brain development with empirical science tool kits.

There is the matter too of sex brain development, much of which occurs early in gestation, which is highly vulnerable to environmental influences, coming from and through the mother. we now know that brain sex dimorphism is much more complex with a greater range of variables and outcomes which indicate that the trans experience - of sensing oneself as being of the other biological sex - is indeed a natural part of human variability. For now, though, we are addressing the meaning and implications of The Bear Question.

The Bear Question.

The issue then, with regards the Bear Question, for women, is that within the dominant cultural setting on Earth is it stands today 'our lived experience is that many, many men are dangerous to us, and we cannot reliably predict when meeting men which ones are dangerous and which ones are not, in that the majority of men do seem to operate with a sense of entitlement to our bodies as sexual objects to be used, owned, possessed, exploited and discarded as a medium of the Mens Power in this culture and that there is no way to tell in advance as to which adult males are safe and which are not, and the tension of living with that is intolerable, not to mention the actual harms caused....."

And the only people who can change that are the men who call themselves allies of women.

Specifically the genuinely safe men MUST take a stance of confronting the unsafe attitudes that unsafe men hold, within this culture, and that means confronting them directly, robustly and without equivocation. All the time. Until the problem is no longer a problem. It also means confronting every structure of social power that extolls the values of the hierarchy of power, wealth and phenotype.

It is a problem with and of Men who internalise the patriarchal hierarchy cultural values in ways that are a life threatening and life altering problem for Women. Women are correct to point it out.

As a man, I understand the problem is a cultural problem, and I am part of that culture, to the extent that I have and carry any internalisation of the dominant cultural values and then express them in my thinking and my behaviour.

I have a responsibility to confront that culture. To myself, to all women, to all children. Just by being alive and aware of the problem.

It is not about 'me' and I cannot take it personally, even if my confrontation with other men on this is personal, as in one to one. 

It is about us, all of us. 

Men, women and children.

I was sexually assaulted, brutalised, psychologically abused and mistreated as a child, on a daily basis, and that abuse was mostly perpetrated by adult men. That is my lived experience.

Nuance required.

All our sons: The neurobiology and neuroendocrinology of boys at risk.

Allan Schore gives a detailed lecture on what was known in 2017 about the neurobiology and neuroendocrinology of boys at risk. 
His work on the development of emotional self regulation, on the development of the systems within the brain that handle emotional state self directed management helps us understand that there are dynamics that start in utero, and that continue throughout life, that mediate the ways in which we process and handle our emotional states healthfully or otherwise. The developing brain is extremely sensitive to the environmental condition of the mother.
The nuance here is that each child grows up within a cultural setting, a socio-economic condition, a familial environment where many variables come in to play in the formation of formerly invisible neurobiological processes that underpin our behaviour. When we are looking at behaviour, it is important to take this new information into consideration. This helps avoid stereotyping, categorisation and other dehumanising attitudes so often embedded in discussions of adverse behaviour patterns. We are all human, we were all innocent babies. 
In this lecture Allan Schore explores what happens for boys at risk, that is to say boys who for reasons outside their control or responsibility are exposed to trauma, neglect, maternal distress, familial distress in regards the maturation of biological systems undermining emotional development and learned behaviour.
This does not form a basis for absolving adults of accountability for harm causation, and it does offer a way to respond that is more concerned with prevention, health and safety than punishment. 
For my purposes I have included this here as an indicator of preventative measures that can be taken, informed by current and developing knowledge of neurobiology and neuroendocrinology, to reduce the incidence of male distress, male psychopathology and male violence as part of the overall work to meet the challenges of the bear question.
A friend responds.
I asked a friend of mine to read over this, and she made these comments, which I publish here with her permission.

“some excellent points and thoughts there.

Reading it reminded me of my other experience yesterday in a charity shop…..found a beautiful Italian leather evening style handbag in a stunning shade of turquoise…

was checking out its suitability for my needs in terms of pockets etc. it looked like it had never been used….I felt something in a pocket and thought it might be a lighter but couldn’t find which pocket it was in and the shape was a bit different so I excitedly thought it might be a small roll of cash

NOPE it was a penknife

I then took it up to the ladies at the till who were shocked and apologetic, I made a comment along the lines of whoever previously owned the bag was like me because that’s the sort of thing I’d feel the need to carry on a night out - the shop assistants and other shoppers then had a open conversation about women having such items in their bags for protection…..age range was about 20-75 years old - we all admitted to having done this, we all also agreed knife crime and carrying knives was bad.”

This anecdote, as I wrote previously was provided by a good friend of mine, a woman I respect and admire every much as a friend and fellow humane being, who describes herself as a “handbag granny :  as I am a fine example of how strong and determined women become after a life time of having to be tough….yeah it would be lovely to have become old and still be floating around without a care in the world having experienced no trauma or hardship but reality isn’t like that and life makes women tough”.

She also wrote this : “I’d say between the ages of 18 and about 45 I’d regularly carry something in my bag that could easily double up as a weapon if needed when I was going somewhere that I didn’t know was 100% safe, so 99% of the time I had a weapon in my bag and at times that would be in my hand if I was walking somewhere dark etc even if that was just a rolled up umbrella or a large set of keys. For women I think this is just instincts now, it’s not even something we think about - we just do it. Even a heavy overloaded handbag swung in the right way can knock a man off his feet, I think a granny recently took out a jewellery store thief in this way… 

She posted this link... https://youtu.be/ySBxMMidbEg?si=6czEfjh5Xd9A4FM_

Culture

Have you ever looked back on a moment and wondered if you made the right choice? Professor Robert Sapolsky has, but he believes that there was no actual choice at that moment. 

Professor Sapolsky has staked out an extreme stance in the field: we are nothing more than the sum of our biology, over which we had no control, and its interactions with the environment, over which we also had no control. Explore what it looks like to reject the notion of free will and how doing so can be liberating rather than paralyzing and despairing.

However , he points out that the kind of culture into which we are born, and the kind of culture our mothers were born into, which sets the conditions of their lived experience, has profound impacts upon us in utero, impacts that remain largely invisible yet present as behavioural patterns and dynamics. Because culture is the setting that is created by human interaction, there is room for the possibility of change. And that is exactly what this blog is all about.

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Corneilius

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