The European psyche believes in unbridled freedom, self-indulgence, material acquisition, and a self-important nature that results in aristocratic societal structures. These are feminine characteristics, which when in balance with masculine characteristics become attributes, but when left unchecked lead to moral decadence, chaos, and a strong central government controlled by an aristocratic elite. We have such a government now, and for the most part that has been the nature of the governments of the West for the past 2,500 years.
We have moral decadence on a scale that encompasses every facet of society, and every profession including the government itself. Well-paid heads of large corporations embezzle billions; employee theft amounts to more than a billion dollars a week, and consumer theft known as shrink, amounts to one and a half percent of retail costs. Officials in sports, business and the professions accept bribes, as do members of government who legislate and enforce the law.
Marital infidelity and divorce run rampant among the populace and clergy as well. Children spend inordinate amounts of time in nurseries and after-school care, in orphanages or foster care. Elders are put in senior citizen homes. Young people live separately or cohabitate without marriage. The majority of adults are now single. Family—the prime source of values and character building—has been destroyed and right and wrong have been supplanted by legal and illegal.
Religion has taken precedence over spirituality. Church dogma supplants spiritual understanding and religious history (a record of the seen) takes precedence over the unseen meaning of scripture.
The Western insatiable desire to accumulate things governs all its motivations and its relations with others from individuals to nations. People go to school, to get an education, get a job, make money, and be somebody. They do not go to school to learn; instead they go to acquire information that will enable them to amass material things. At the national level government measures societal well-being in terms of gross domestic product—a barometer of how much consumable material the nation produces.
The Western psyche’s desire for material accumulation results in the need to “own” everything, and land consists of that which it can own. Wherever Western man has traveled internationally he received friendly greetings from the local inhabitants who contributed to his survival. He received this hospitable treatment form the indigenous peoples of North and South America, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. In all instances of this hospitality, Western man took ownership of the lands of his hosts and made the people slaves, serfs, and indentured servants.
The Maoris in Hawaii exist at the bottom of the American economic ladder. In South America the indigenous people are referred to as those “Indians” and have little influence in the operation of their governments or economies. In North America those “Indians” live on reservations. The tribal ways of the African have for the most part been destroyed and Western interests control the land. Western man has divided Asia into two economic environments of his design—communism and capitalism—both of which have destroyed the cultural and social structure of their lands in the process of opening them up for economic exploitation. The destruction of cultural and religious practices in the lands he occupies results from the aristocratic aspect of the Western psyche and led to the segregation of non-Westerners all over the world.
In his insatiable desire to own anything and everything, Western man has destroyed and polluted the environment to a degree unheard of in all of recorded history. He has polluted the air he breathes, the water he drinks, the food he eats, and the thoughts he thinks; and considers this pollution the price of economic well-being. He shows an open willingness to sacrifice health for money.
This sacrifice of health has caused illness of epidemic proportions. The extensive use of prescription medications to treat these symptoms has caused economic hardship on the populace and is creating strains on the federal health care budget.
When Western man points with pride to his achievements, he does not realize that they consist merely of the rearrangement of the earth’s material done at the price of disrupting natural harmony. The continuous deterioration of all that he created requires continual maintenance.
The gross materialistic thinking of Western man has so blinded him to the natural functioning of the universe that he does not know how to live in harmony with it. His society crumbles before his very eyes, and he knows not why.
Western man does not realize his responsibility regarding the propagation and preservation of the species, an activity that cannot be accomplished outside of the patriarchal structure, which in turn requires a clear understanding of the principle of gender. Instead of assuming the responsibility for the well-being of the race he turned that function over to the government while he pursued material gain. A patriarchal structure never developed in Europe; the non-sustainable nature of the nuclear family established in its place requires government intervention to maintain it. Old age homes, orphanages, and prisons are the norm of Western societies. The institutionalized care of human beings has become a major European export.
By every mental, physical, and spiritual measure Western society is crumbling. In order for people to improve their lives under these conditions it is necessary to live outside of the system. The mission statement of Men’s Action to Rebuild Society calls for the fostering of a more natural way of life. The establishment of a patriarchal societal structure serves as the primary step in that direction.
