Ep 104: Zombie Patriarchies: Strongmen’s Siren Song. Putin’s Lust, Zelensky’s Pride. Eurydice w Bob - a podcast by Eve Eurydice

Eve Eurydice speaks war and the romantic call of the drumbeat of war with the author Robert Steiner. This is how patriarchies survive: not rationally. I ask the question: So we are not posthistorical? I ask: We gave up the drachma for this? The contradiction here is that we in the West are saying How can he do this we are post war & at the same time we take sides & send weapons & money to one side so as to escalate the war & the numbers of the dead? We discuss the current war in Ukraine in the context of international history and patriarchy, the False Promise of the EU and of global capitalism. We thought war is over thanks to corporate globalism. We would all be Europeans. Prosperity would put an end to inherited racist animosities. But Patriarchy is our Drug and our Fatal Romance. ⚡️ A decent human puts the good of others above his own. A strongman sacrifices numerous lives to what he thinks is right, to his self-interest. When two strongmen go at it, they don’t care the cost in lives. This is primal patriarchal drama: the younger strongman wants to castrate the older strongman, as Zeus did to Kronus, Kronus to Uranus. Zelensky is not the face of freedom. He’s the younger face of nationalism. He’s adept at blackmailing & guilt-tripping the West, replaying the familiar drama of patriarchal families. He’s not an innocent. He cost lives. He would not placate the patriarch. He chose to fight the tyrant patriarch to the death. Mothers have placated patriarchs for millennia. That’s the difference between patriarchy and non. It wasn’t rational to leave Russia out of NATO & the EU but let most ex Soviet nations (the rest of Eastern Europe) & almost Turkey (Asia) in. What were they afraid of? The self fulfilling prophecy that is fear. Patriarchy is irrational. And yet it calls Nature irrational, Turning the stakes around. Change comes as Reversal of Fortune. Nothing lasts forever. Patriarchy insists that it can last forever because it cares not which side and which patriarch wins. The only good thing in democracy is change: the ruler must change, the more often, the better. One term in office would be best. ⚡️Robert Steiner is the author of Quill, Bathers, Passion l, Dread, Matinee, Nothing Lasts Forever, Toward a Grammar of Abstraction and more.⚡️ For more, go to https://Speaksexpodcast.com ⚡️ For books, art, merch by Eurydice, go to https://Eurydice.net ⚡️ For Apple podcast, subscribe to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speak-sex-with-eve/id1448261953 ⚡️Find our video episodes at https://YouTube.com/SpeakSexwithEveEurydice ⚡️ #speaksex #eveEurydice #Eurydice #Eurudice

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