“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
Maybe I don’t know my history but I can’t think of a single war the United States has been involved in over the last 200 years that was started, escalated, or encouraged by a woman. War is a male mindset, fueled by testosterone, pride and ego. If we were to eliminate those three toxic ingredients all over the world there would be no more war. Would there be absolute peace? Probably not, but rather than using bullets, bombs and blood to solve our disagreements I would suspect, if the world took a more feminine approach to resolving conflicts, our planet would be a much more hospitable place.
So why don’t we? Why don’t we make more effort utilizing, as Tolstoy noted, the two most powerful tools available for peaceful resolutions “patience and time”? Because all of the conflicts, all of disagreements, all of the hurt feelings and slights are driven by testosterone, pride and ego.
We have all seen the old movies with images of “savages” or bandits attacking the homestead or wagon train. The females are huddled in a corner shivering and shaking from fear while the men take-up arms to “protect the womenfolk”. This is the romantic portrayal all males have grow-up believing, we are the protectors, men are strong, women are weak. I am here to tell you as a son, brother and father this is a myth, nothing could be further from the truth.
At 56 years old testosterone doesn’t surge as potently through my blood stream as it once did. My pride will at times rear its ugly head only to be reminded but the beautiful women in my life that what I should be most proud of can’t be taken away from me or threatened. And my ego, well it is kept in check by these same beautiful women who remind me that I am not as smart, or as clever, or as good-looking as I think I am.
The escalation, hate and fear this world is currently experiencing have one source, men, men driven by testosterone, pride and ego. What is most amazing to me, despite all the advances humans have made, we really haven’t evolved much beyond the knuckle dragging Neanderthals who used rocks and sticks to beat each other silly. The difference today, we use bigger rocks and more potent sticks.
I hope, for the sake of this planet, and for the sake of my children and future generations that we will at some point very soon neuter the majority and dominate male influences in government. Men have proven we are incapable of making sound and rational decisions that benefit everyone, decisions that don’t feed our ego or pride, decisions that aren’t driven by testosterone. We have had plenty of time and ample opportunity to show that we are capable of resolving conflicts without shedding blood. We have failed. We failed as Homo erectus two million years ago and we continue to fail today.
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
1. That’s a great quote at the end. 2. You’re absolutely right. Women are far more capable at resolving conflict, but us hairy-assed men are still in protection mode, after centuries of conditioning. Our last election proved we’re still scared to have a woman in charge; we’d rather have an untrained monkey.
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I honestly don’t know what it will take to get the men out and the women in. As the father of daughters I would feel a lot better about the future with them in power.
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Me, too.
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Until the day comes that men treat women as their equal and as co-partners in caring for our world, there will be more wars and violence against women.
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My brother, your take on testosterone levels in world leadership is spot on. We are at a point now where Trump, Putin and Kim JongUn need to give up the bravado bullshit, put on some eye makeup and lipstick, and start thinking like females. OMG, Trump in heels with cheek rouge?
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Kim Jong-un is probably still running on natural testosterone, Trump and Putin are taking supplements, double doses at that.
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And the “message” I have been waiting for from the Evangelical Christian community; “When it comes to how we should deal with evildoers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war — to stop evil. In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un.” – Texas pastor Robert Jeffress
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Sigh…SMH…
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Of course. They have a direct hotline to God and a very special interpreter. After all, according to Michelle Bachmann, Trump is God sent.
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And the “Great” Franklin Graham!
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John Lennon….imagine no heaven, no hell and no religion too.
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“….and we have liftoff. God says it’s Ok to destroy millions of people because Kim is evil….eh, excuse me God, but I thought Jesus said blessed are the peacemakers. Oh, I understand…Jesus was using the wrong translation of God’s holy, literal, inerrant, infallible Word. Well, golly gee, that explains everything.”
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That bible verse has such a low vibration, it could not possibly be from God. Well, at least not my God. Again, written by humans with an agenda.
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Correct!
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I believe that the Divine Feminine is returning; however, I feel the most beneficial scenario would be an equal balance of the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine. The best part is that we can all manage to have both within us if we only try.
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I believe we all have both in us and for those that accept it works great but for those that fight it that causes them problems. It was easier for me to embrace my feminine side, I had girls.
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Exactly
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Fantastic post again Mr. Legend.
Over here in Europe we have Mrs. Merkel and Mrs. May leading Germany and the UK. I believe Mrs. Merkel is fulfilling a great job, but Mrs. May…not so much in my opinion. And I am so relieved a man won in France, because if Mrs. Le Pen would have taken over; I believe it would be worse than any men leading France before.
So, I also think it’s about the right balance of those hormones and the ability to handle the power related to high-level management positions.
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“right balance of those hormones” I agree 100%
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