Women were only just starting to realize they were in prison
– or rather in the dolls’ house – back in the middle of last century. They
certainly weren’t ready to get out there and take on the world, because they
hadn’t yet taken on their own self-images. In other words, they still blamed themselves
and hated themselves, and they still thought the way to become equal was to
become like men, to emulate all the broken behavior that man exhibited in their
quest for power, control and riches, because that brought the rewards society
offered.
But here we are two generations or so further along the path
toward true freedom, self-acceptance and manifestation of our own true inner
power. It looks quite different from that of men, and it is going to change the
world.
Young women of today exhibit a caring that comes solely from
within their own beings, and experience a willingness to judge according to
their own opinions, not according to opinions that would be approved by men.
Young men of today have become far more comfortable with their own inner
femininity than one would ever have thought possible within a generation or
two. The older generations are denouncing most of this, desperately trying to
draw back the youth into the failures of previous times. But it’s difficult
when just about everyone agrees what previous times led to was the chaos we see
today, the inequality, the over incarceration, the desire to step back from the
position as leader of the free world and focus on making the rich richer as a
good American should do.
We should have been able to claim our freedom to be
ourselves back then after the sixties, but all this inner searching takes time.
At that time it proved quite easy for authorities to clamp down, for
assassinations to dispel hope, for unthinking politicians to jump on the tough
on crime bandwagon to avoid defeat at the polls. Today women everywhere are
speaking out, minorities are not just accepting that they can be imprisoned,
shot and killed by bad policing, and even those in top positions in many states
are working toward reform, because they see the harm that is being done.
The biggest barriers to positive change come from the lawmaking
community, the rule of law, and those addicted to the profits that have
accompanied the growth industries of criminalizing everything and taking away
most controls over the financial services industry. Letting go of these
addictions will be a long process, maybe made unnecessary if we have another
collapse of the financial system which is certainly a strong possibility, but
anyway something we have to deal with in a different way from the past, because
women’s values are different.
Where the law contradicts love, we must go with love. Not the
urgent need for love that mimics love, but a real love that extends to everyone
on the planet. Where people are thrust into poverty and homelessness, we must
provide a basic income and a home. Where people lose their source of support,
we must find a way to provide for all of our needs together.
