Today everyone agrees that we are in a period of transition. The economic differences between countries in the world have become unbearable, the economic\/financial elites are running the show, trade wars, the absurd rearmament race of European countries, the environment no longer interests anyone, let alone climate migrants, the democratic state of Israel doing ethnic cleansing, and Europe is silent. In short, the West has managed to make the rest of the world hate it and doesn’t seem to realize it.
It is hard to say where we are going to end up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We celebrated these days the Liberation Day from Nazi-Fascism. Eighty years ago it was established for the first time in history that war is a crime and those who declare war are criminals. But then we saw that beyond good intentions, wars are still going on. It will be difficult if not impossible to think that men, and in this case I really mean males, will be able to come to the overcoming of wars because they have been for centuries now immersed in a mentality, in a thinking that is based exclusively on profit, on exploitation, on usefulness, on the subjugation of the other, of women in particular, on the law of the Father, on mors tua vita mea. And even when we rebelled against all this, things did not go so well. If after ’68 and years of feminism we find ourselves in the current political situation, we have to ask ourselves a few questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The left senses that a radical change in thinking is needed, that the \u201cReason of the pater familias\u201d or if you prefer the \u201cWhite Male and Patriarchal Power\u201d will only lead us or rather keep us in a world perpetually at war. However, this right insight is steeped in so much confusion. The attempt to overcome the problem of patriarchy by nullifying the body and sexual identities in favor of gender belonging, disregards research that tells us instead about the difference between identity and image where, for example, a male identity must (or rather should) be matched by an internal female image and vice versa. It is when the man loses his feminine image that he becomes rational and violent; he must appropriate the woman and does not accept separation.
But we will certainly return to these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is hopeful and seems completely new compared to the past is the identity of the young women. They are indeed seeking a relationship with the different but in new ways because they are finally realizing a collective and solid self-assurance that undermines the identity based on Western logos and brings out with horrifying evidence the violent madness that remained hidden in some relationships considered normal until recently.
In past years we used to witness groups of women claiming their rights, pissed off at men, now instead we see confident girls who no longer have any need for the protection of the male, of the pater familias who would put things in order and instead see in these dynamics a weakness, a lack of identity masquerading as strength that now appears in their eyes for what it is, a lie only apt to hide a need for control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women have managed throughout history to keep within themselves an irrationality that until now males had managed to make them believe was madness that needed to be kept under control but now the view is being reversed and women realize that the disease to be cured is the rationality of the male. And the cure is the dialectic of rejection, forcing the other to be better. There is no annihilation of the other but dialectical relationship. It happens often to hear girls separating from an abusive boy suggest to him, with real interest, to go for treatment. There is not the idea that male identity should not exist, there is the idea that it should change. And it is in the dialectic between different people that this can come about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a non-destructive confrontation, in this period we should say at last a rebellion without weapons, so dear to the dumb males of all ages. A search for fulfillment that is not against, does not aim at submission, does not take anything away from the other-because it is not based on power or material goods-instead it enriches the other in a dialectical relationship. A radical change of thinking, of rejection of human identity based on utility, exploitation, power and possession. At this time I hear many freethinkers argue that to rebalance the planet, Westerners should \u201cgive up\u201d and thus greatly lower their current standard of living but even these progressive and intelligent people fail to do thinking outside the logic of possession and exploitation: they fail to understand, unless they change paradigm of thought, that what they call loss and renunciation, seen from a different perspective, correspond to enrichment and happiness. They do not understand that a fat child does not have \u201cso much\u201d health but is sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mind you these differences between males and females are not genetic and males are not all rapists and murderers. Murderers are very seriously mentally ill, and we will return to this issue in more detail as well. But they are also the tip of the iceberg of a clash between two modes of thinking that crudely we might call rational and irrational, which are linked to satisfaction and fulfillment dynamics, respectively. And I believe that the outcome of this clash will decide the future of human beings.
But if in this dialectic men finally manage to take off that violent rational thinking, that need for possession that they have sewn on themselves throughout history, the differences between males and females would certainly not end. In fact, far from it! But that is another matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a short excerpt from a fine interview by Elisa Liberatori Finocchiaro with psychiatrist Massimo Fagioli on gender violence, which appeared in the July 6, 2014, Fatto Quotidiano:
\u201cFeminism and ’68 thinking, however, did not produce a substantial difference in overcoming gender violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn ’68,\u201d Fagioli concludes, \u201dfreedom was experienced as negation. The myth, the ‘religion’ of those years was liberation, which, however, involved a negation of identity. But revolt without human identity is destruction, it is negation. The dialectic of denial was completely absent. It was enough to destroy. Instead in revolt you need rejection. You have to know what to reject and what not to reject. Freedom was something abstract, outside of any interhuman relationship. And with feminism we had more or less the same dynamic. Rights are fundamental, but the dialectic with the different must be there, it is fundamental. To find sexual identity we must first discover a foundation of absolute equality. We are all born absolutely equal, in life one must first discover this equality and only later bring in the man-woman discourse and diversity. In the interhuman relationship there is no relationship with the ‘thing,’ according to that monstrous logic I mentioned earlier. The human being is equal and different, and this is realized in society. In the intimate relationship difference is triggered and this feminism has not understood. In the dialectic with the different, the first year of life is recreated. Sexuality means intimate, deep, personal, unconscious relationship with the equal-diverse human being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marco Michelini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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