Having started to write an essay entitled The Recitorial Society (I plan to coin the word recitorial) and reaching 2,500 words with no end in sight it became evident that I had already amassed sufficient material to support the makings of a book, which I just might decide to write within the year, depending on the scope of the activities of Men’s Action.
In bringing this to your attention it is not to share my self-indulgent writing, but to alert you to the nature of what is happening in society and the steps you can take to avoid its many pitfalls.
Western thinking established the genderless society, and it has devolved into a recitorial society in which all communication has been reduced to recitations, a condition affecting every facet of our lives including, education, employment, communications, health, interpersonal relations, and family.
Perhaps I will present a continuing series of the Recitorial Society, or, I might just make references to it from time to time; whatever the approach, the objective is to increase your awareness of the recitorial nature of society so that you can make changes to your lifestyle and environment.
Those in authority, in order to encourage participation by the general populace in the recitation of accumulated data, dispense awards such as certificates, licenses, and degrees, indicating the proficiency of memorization and recitation of the individual receiving the award. These awards have within them subdivisions further delineating the recitorial proficiency of the recipient.
Women love to recite because they know instinctively all information comes from outside of themselves; therefore a recitation serves as a public statement of what they know (or think they know); furthermore, receiving awards caters to the “ME” aspect of their natures.
Receptive and accommodating by nature, and measuring their self-worth by performing in accordance with what is expected of them, women will do their utmost to comply with standards they have been motivated, trained, or forced to accept. They are well motivated to obtain certificates, licenses, and degrees, which in the recitorial system is considered evidence of ability (a completely erroneous consideration), and in the credentialized structure of society it serves as a vehicle for salary determination and positions of authority.
In examining the recitorial effect on society, various vocations will be addressed, the first being nutrition.
If an organization wanted to upgrade its member’s knowledge regarding eating healthier foods it would most likely call upon a nutritionist or dietitian (most likely a woman with a master’s degree) to address the group. Why call upon a nutritionist to learn about healthy eating? If you wanted to learn how to fly a plane wouldn’t you go to a pilot, someone who could fly one? You wouldn’t go to someone who had a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering but never sat behind the controls of a plane.
Using the same reasoning, if you wanted to have a healthy body derived from the foods that you eat wouldn’t you go to a healthy person—preferably one who was old and healthy—which would give evidence that their diet maintained them in good health for many years? Ethnic cooking developed from those considerations; the elders of society knew which foods maintained healthy bodies and incorporated those foods into a traditional diet, modified in accordance with the food available. What would a 25 year-old woman with a master’s in nutrition know about healthy eating? She could only recite, but she could not give evidence of the result of eating the diet she would recommend. Nevertheless, she would have the awards, which in our credentialized society would give her the right and salary rewards to lecture to people on nutrition, whether or not she herself was healthy.
This reminds me of a caption I read of a World Health Organization worker sent to a remote area of Malaysia to teach the people proper dental hygiene. As she taught them how to use a tooth brush properly it was observed that the only person in the group missing teeth was the health care worker. She was credentialized and authorized to promote dental care while she herself was missing teeth.
Getting back to nutrition, I will state four fundamentals that apply to most things relating to the care of the race:
1. God made food. Man made junk food. Eat the food that God made; most likely you will become healthy. Eat the food that man made; most likely you will become unhealthy. That covers all the knowledge about nutrition that the recitorial teachings in our universities can possibly offer.
2. The adulteration of the food that God created by chemical additives and various forms of processing has reduced the energy levels in it. Praying over food will restore the energy to its intended level.
3. For balanced nutritional menu planning consult your grandmothers, preferably your great-grandmothers as the food they prepared made it possible for you to be here. They did it without attending any credentialized recitorial programs.
4. There are no such things as vitamins, anti-oxidants, free radicals, etc. All those things are made up and have no more validity that the Arctic Circle or International Dateline. They do not exist.
5. The above fundamentals come from a man with impeccable credentials; he is 83 years-old and does not take any medications. Do any professors in the field of nutrition, dietetics, and general health care have those credentials?
This essay illustrates one of a multitude of areas where recitorial training tends to remove any conceptual understanding of the basic necessities of life and how to obtain them.
In the next essay I will refer to social work and the law, two fields that have usurped our natural ability to care for our fellow man and establish the ethics necessary for a stable environment.
As, always, your comments would be appreciated. E.G.
