The Difference between the Matriarchy and the Patriarchy

A young man approached the Pook and asked, “Monsieur Pook, tell me, what is the difference between the Matriarchy and the Patriarchy?”

And the Pook replied, “What do you think it is?”

The young man sniffed and said, “It is power of gender. Matriarchy has women in control. Patriarchy has men in control. Perhaps we need a third option where no gender has power.”

“No. It is either-or. There is no middle ground.” “So what is the difference, Pook?”

“I will tell you. The ‘touchstone’ of civilizations has been debated for centuries. Some measure their technology, others measure their ‘culture,’ yet other measures them through what form of government. The defining moment of civilization is how TIME is measured.”

“Why not money? Why not power?”

“It is because Time is finite. We can make more money, obtain more power, but no one can ever create more Time. From the Maya to the Egyptians to the ancient Greek to the Babylonians and to every ancient civilization, Time was sacred. The Calendar was sacred. To them, monsters were creatures that upset Time and had to be thrown out. The hero arises to ‘set time right’ and dispose the monsters. These are the mythologies and legends of Mankind.”

“What does this mean? You say mythologies are about Time?”

“Civilization, then, was obsessed with Time. Virgil saw the Virgin constellation rise in the sky and the lion constellation sink in to the hemisphere. The Pisces constellation rose overhead. This caused Virgil to write the prophecy of a drowning lion, the rising Virgin which the sun passes through, and the age of the fishes. Virgil could not know the Church would adopt that Virgil’s passage as prophecy for the Christ nor could he have predicted that the first Christians would live under the sign of the fish. We cannot ignore the interpretation of time. Egyptians would construct pyramids aimed at where the Orion star once was. Plato would create philosophy from these tales. Aristotle would mourn their passing from the world at his time. Consider that our calendar month’s names come from the Roman Empire and the Church. Consider that our time line is split with B.C. being Before Christ.”

“What does any of this have to do with the difference between Matriarchy and the Patriarchy?”

“Everything. The difference between the Matriarchy and the Patriarchy is the interpretation of TIME. In the Patriarchy, time flows upward. This means the older one gets, the better one gets. People study, grow wiser. Christ gave his Parable of Talents where people plant a seed of talent and make it grow. ‘You will know the tree by its fruit,’ He would say. Elderly are revered in Patriarchy.”

“But TIME flows downward in Matriarchy?”

“Correct. Civilizations, especially the Western ones, have been completely cut off from those cosmological roots that created our timeline, our calendar, and our heroes. Hamlet, echoing the ancients’ heroes, said: ‘Oh, Time is out of joint, and cursed spite! That I was ever born to set it right!'”

“So in Matriarchy, the young is worshiped and aging is seen as a disease.”

“Yes. Women are pinned to the Wheel of Nature. Round, round, she goes. What makes a woman attractive if not her baby fat? Alas, that will melt over time. Women place all her chips on her appearance. She may be a goddess in her 20s, but the 30s face sharp decline, and the decline does not stop. A man, on the other hand, does not place all his chips on his appearance. He places it is his talents and mind which grow, plant like, over time. So a man may be a loser in his 20s, but in his 30s he faces growth, in his 40s faces major growth, and time keeps getting better to him.”

“Some men will choose to live like women. Do they experience time as women do, as getting worse as time goes on?”

“Yes.”

“So a Matriarchy would worship the young, discard the old, praise beauty, despise talent and intellect, and perceive life to be a series of short exciting bursts of energy which must not be missed out on. And the Patriarchy would worship the old, not take the young seriously, not take beauty seriously except in its mathematical proportions, praise talent and intellect, and perceive life as a growth.”

“Well done! Now, consider the Family in how Time is interpreted.”

“A Patriarchy would have blossoming after blossoming, a growing Family Tree. A Matriarchy would not care about the Family Tree and, instead, create many ‘now’ experiences which are more intense than the Patriarch’s family. Yet, these intense experiences are like novas. They flash and are gone. The Family Tree will endure and grow.”

Pook nodded. “Consider the seasons. Men begin in Winter, go to Spring, then Summer, and at the end have a Fall. Women, however, begin in Spring, then go to Summer, then Fall, and end up in the misery of Winter. Women have one summer. Men have endless summers.”

“What do you mean?”

“It is another reason why the 95-5 rule doesn’t work. Women are pinned to that Wheel of Nature that slowly rotates as they age. In their late twenties and thirties, they have ‘baby rabies’ and want babies. Women are confined to their geography as well. She cannot separate herself from The Way. When it is ‘time’ to have babies, she will be looking for a sucker. If she is hungry for a boyfriend, she will look in her immediate surroundings which include work and college and any friends one of her girlfriends can toss up. Many women go to university with the intention of getting a wedding ring on her finger. She does not have much time to do this.”

“So women are more confined by time than men are.”

“Yes. As a man, your wealth and status will grow which will attract more and more women. However, women are *melting* and do not have the time.”

“This might explain why the countries with the lowest birth rates are the most feminized.” “Yes.”

“So the Matriarchy began by somehow having time flow the opposite way? How did this come to be? Could it be through technology since the young get technology so much faster than the old do?”

“The values of Pro-Youth, Anti-Talent, Anti-Family Tree, Pro-Bursts of Experience became established by forgetting and dismissing the old Time orientated rules (today, scholars say ‘Before Common Time’ instead of saying ‘Before Christ’). The values of an animal-eating, hunting, and sex- have been hailed as the greatest of values a person can have. The values of building a family tree or planting your talent has become frowned at or turned into liabilities. There is a reason why we call it Mother Earth and Father Time.”

“And all the ancient civilizations have been re-interpreted as fertility rites and goddess worship instead of time worship.”

“Yes. The ancient civilizations that did appear to worship the woman were more wedded to the lunar sense of time. Even in those places, men became in charge since they grew better in time while women do not.”

“Man, it sounds like God’s cruel joke.”

“Yes. It as if Men and Women are exactly the same except they experience time differently. Men start low and get better. Women start high and get worse. Someway, in the middle, they meet and it is never exact for any two people. Women are obsessed with looking YOUNGER and all their products are designed to stop time or make it go backwards (at least, in appearance to their bodies). Men are obsessed with getting BETTER. ”

“So how do we return to the Patriarchy?”

“For yourself, plant your seed of Talent and grow it. Follow your passion in life. Pursue your dreams. Get better, every day. But for the nations, it would be to discard the values that prop up animal values as ‘noble’ and raise the hated ‘noble’ values back to their true place. Let Wisdom, not Beauty, wear the crown and let Time and Talent, not Money or fun, hold the guiding scepter.”