"What singularly defines the situation of woman is that being, like all humans, an autonomous freedom, she discovers and chooses herself in a world where men force her to assume herself as Other: an attempt is made to freeze her as an object and doom her to immanence since her transcendence will be forever transcended by another essential and sovereign consciousness. Women's drama lies in this conflict between the fundamental claim of every subject, which always posits itself as essential, and demands of a situation that constitute her as inessential. How, in the feminine condition, can a human being accomplish herself? What paths are open to her? Which ones lead to dead ends? How can she find independence within dependence? What circumstances limit women’s freedom and can she overcome them? These are the fundamental questions we would like to elucidate."
-- Beauvior 'The Second Sex' 1949
Part 1
"Hi, nice to be connected with you again. This is our fifth time. It has been a pleasant experience sharing thoughts and knowledge with you! I enjoyed your analysis and feedback."
"The pleasure is mutual! I am very interested in all of the topics we went through and very content that I gained the knowledge you shared with me!"
"I guess you have already been updated about the decision our Cosmic High Court made 13 xx (time-units) ago..."
"Yes, I did connect to multiple news entities. I am very sorry to learn that a federal entity of Defence has to be formed so as to prepare for the worst. However, considering the dire outcome of our High Court's first attempt of 'Operation R', even though there are two more attempts left, it's better prepared than sorry."
"Agreed. A defense mechanism is really necessary in the wake of their aggression. The aggregation and reservation of energy should take some time. The High Court has to approve details on energy cultivation that the federal entity of Defence will later propose. A lot of discussions shall happen among different planets that have different elemental compositions and structures. 'Operation R - I' truly failed, in the sense that they are still on the exact same trajectory to us, and the exact same six leaps show up in their current timeline, moreover, a 1300 earth-year delay not only didn't erase even one leap, converted to our time, but 1300 earth years also didn't gain much time for us to prepare for the attack neither; in my opinion, we were as well immensely unprepared for the operation. The ability to manipulate timelines through fifth-dimensional passages was new to us, although we successfully anticipated and avoided paradoxes among them and among ourselves by setting up strict preconditions."
"I do really hope we will never go so far as to break the energy balance of our cosmos. However, they have already broken it, we might not always have a choice no matter how much higher up we are intelligence-wise."
"Actually this is what I want to share with you in this connection. I do think with two more attempts of 'Operation R' left, we can still change the outcome in time if we are able to plan the operation accurately. Remember I shared with you the knowledge about how their societies are divided by different factors?"
"Yes, it's part of my knowledge now."
"One of the dividing factors is gender."
"Yes, male and female is the general divide. And all that inequality trapped in their physical forms results in outright repression of potential intelligence growth. It's fairly difficult for us to comprehend without having the equivalent physical forms to live through it, I would say."
"I agree. And I recently discovered an overlooked but astonishing piece of information regarding this factor."
"What was that?"
"When they were making the transition into the AIEH era, they had passed a law to never tamper with the physical differences between males and females. And this law was a universal law, approved by all the entities among the human species. Meaning they intentionally preserved the root of inequality between males and females, even though there were unlimited technology-derived solutions right in front of them."
"Hmmm, this information is very refreshing and interesting! How did they reach that point? What went wrong in their history? Was it related to the failure of 'Operation R - I'? Are there what-ifs? I have a zillion questions!"
"Ya same here! So I became more and more intrigued by the study of their females. I started acquiring more information about them. I wanted to know how their collective, as well as individual, thinking had evolved. You want to know some of their females' thoughts? I have sought through all of the available materials from the beginning of their civilization to this point."
"Yes please share with me."
"This human female is one of my favorites. She was a writer in planet ε-9345's pre-AIEH era which has been evaluated to be a dimensionally unlocked prime age abundant with original, raw and complex human emotions. The exploration of humans' emotional ability had reached a promising high but unfortunately, that had turned into a summit instead of being the stepping stone to new heights. A peak but far away from matching up to the acceptable level for the cosmic court of order. You have learned how drastically it had declined after they entered the post-AIEH era right?"
"Um-hm."
"She had left a lot of her thoughts in the pre-AIEH electric-digital forms. But she had never gained popularity among humans, not while she was living, not after she had passed. She stayed unknown till the end of the pre-AIEH era. Therefore there was almost nothing of her transformed into the post-AIEH biotronic forms that were made familiar to us... I first encountered her work in some local digital archives, and I was instinctively captivated. Then I found some more from various archives, but mostly from mega digi-junk sites, I have collected all of the materials I could find of her. I have transformed them into my system with optimization. The viewing, extraction and transformation took me a lot of cultivation of external energy, it was indeed not an easy task... I'm sharing them with you... This is her, she was with her two offspring. That's how humans originally communicated among themselves using organic instruments. Actually the physical appearances, primal communication methods and intelligence level of prototype humans are very similar to certain species on planets ε-739, θ-4280 and γ-517. All of the three planets are as high as 80% to 100% carbon-based, as well as all the beings reside there."
"Yes indeed, such similarity. I am comparing them side by side. And wow, prototype human beings like her are pure energy. What a natural and authentic carbon being she was! Now that is the definition of beauty our cosmic court of order highly appreciates. How I wish humans had taken a different path thus their civilization could reach its potential, instead of going down a completely dark path of destruction. It's such a devastating fact that original humans like that have extinct entirely. The creatures we are facing now are truly horrifying..."
"I have also obtained permission from our planet's court to four-dimensional access into their civilization. You know four is any individual planet's highest level of permission, as an observer. We are still quite new to this knowledge anyway. I learned that she lived peacefully with her family till her passing. She was fortunate enough that herself was exempt from the mass distortions but she indeed witnessed the very beginning of human civilization's disfiguration."
"Thank you for the great effort in understanding humans and looking into details of their past. I do fathom this could turn out to be useful even crucial in dealing with the current crisis, considering the unique timing of her existence. So what are your favorite readings of her?"
"I like to live in her imagination and fantasies. She was trying her best to escape, escape space, time, and physical constraints that were innately built into her cage of existence. She was much better at assessing the fundamental flaws of human beings, as well as foreseeing the existential crisis her future generations would eventually come across. Some of her short stories of science fiction, 'science fiction' as it was labeled in planet ε-9345's pre-AIEH era, were very close to the truth. The truth about the reality is that humans were not equipped to perceive nevertheless their actions were constantly tailoring the course of their own future, now our future, and even tampering with the cosmic order... She had predicted some of the incoming possibilities rather accurately... One of the closest among all I would say... I also enjoy her chaotic thought storms that were bursting out from nowhere. For example, this one..."
Choice 1
Why so worked up by me enjoying a cigarette? What is there to be so furious about? You already threw away my package right in front of my face last time, didn't you? What part "there's absolutely no addiction, only remission" couldn't you understand? Ain't our trust supposed to be mutual? How on Earth does one cigarette in the span of six months to five years seem harmful to you? I gave you two healthy sons, haven't I? Since when are the terms of the alluring "adventures" that were painstakingly marketed by you only defined by you now? Or it always has been like this, the illusionary "empowerment" that was sold to me has all this time been merely a reflection, a reflection of your reign and domain? Whilst I so willingly conform to your standard of being "open and free" regarding my own body and sexual behaviors, nevertheless I am never the one who gets to set up rules for my own body, for my own definition of "open and free", am I? My body is mine but ultimately yours, isn't it? You use it for whatever way you please, but my little harmless plot of getaway should never be granted permission, should it?
"It's almost as bad as catching you cheating!" As bad as cheating, lol! You have no idea, do you? Oh humans! Oh men! You built the stone walls of prison with your own hands. Your own customized prison of ideologies, creeds, norms and conformation. With your raving ego and greed, you pulled the hair and dragged in one of your most dangling possessions, women. You sealed the prison gate without leaving a crack, you are guarding it with all your might. You think you got this, don't you? Men with your smirky faces, you stamp at nature and animals like they are your slaves, you juggle science and technology as tricks at your fingertips. You lure women into believing you are the ultimate truth, the key to the eternal source of energies. When the women started to question; when we were finally curious about discovering what's inside of our own forms other than the ability to breed and nurture your offspring; when we were finally curious about exploring what's outside, outside of your regime, you then took up more stones, wanting to seal off the sky and block the light.
But alas, when have you ever stopped building yet more stone walls, stone gates, and stone ceilings? At least you didn't stone Kant to death like how you burned Bruno! After Kant, then that's it? There is no man who is capable of leading you into a broader avenue? Instead, are you just gonna let yourselves go down that dark alley, arrogantly and comfortably enslaving yourselves into deeper and narrower stone wells and chambers? Metaphysics now has officially been stripped off to be a mere commodity that could be bought and sold? Meta my butt! Science and technology, your secret magic weapon at taming women and nature, ain't they presuppositions exist only in your phenomenal world which is utterly ruled over by sensories? Space and time, you don't think you are unconsciously objectifying the things you see and touch so as to conform to the preconceptions in your minds? What if it all, things-in-themselves, just a dream that was preinstalled into your brain during incubation? What if no matter how much you struggle, you can never take off that tinted spectacles of yours which were hardwired into your genes? What if your so-called science and technology advancement would eventually end up herding you into tiny cold devices that are scattered like space junks because of your utter ignorance of the noumenal?
Since when have you lost the courage in its entirety? The courage to live? The courage to be free? You shame the ones who always speak their minds, who laugh loudly and dance joyfully in the street when happy thoughts come into sight; you ridicule the ones who dare to daydream instead of running after materials and comfort, you sneeringly measure them down with your proud bling-bling possessions; you lock yourselves in layers of boxes, boxes in boxes: "right but not wrong", "duty but not desire", "chastity but not lust", "refrain but not embrace", "impossible but not possible"... If you refuse to experience life as life itself, how could you truly understand what is all this about, why are we here and where are we all going to? Of course, I believe Nietzsche asked some crucial questions that could shake the foundation of our existence. And of course, I believe our foundation needs to be shaken and shaken and shaken until it starts to disintegrate and resettle into a better one!
I know you will surely question me: "Why to blame your misery all on us as if you are completely powerless?" And here is my answer: because we have never been set free, we have never yet seen how the world would look like with us running it, we have never known what would be our mistakes and if there were fundamental flaws derived from the natural common dispositions of us that can't be fixed. All we ever did, was conforming to your projection of us, mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, like how you project your fascination into the definition of house pets. All we ever dreamed, was to match to your imagination which has been trapped in a phenomenal world!
Ok ok! I know I went overboard again, like a crazy nut! Ain't we all are, in your eyes? We are always wrong and you can never be not right, alright? Alas, good night! I know you wouldn't mind because you're the best! Ok ok... jokes aside, sorry that I smoked alright? Tomorrow is gonna be another beautiful day!
Choice 2
"Growing without definition" -- I especially like that!
"Growing without definition" -- this should apply to any human being! Why put your sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, and grandchildren into tiny dark boxes that "society" picks for you? Who is this authoritative "society" guy? What can he offer? What else can he offer us besides misery, exploitation, and desperation? Sounds like we should rid him right this moment!
Any sacred being given life in this universe deserves to grow in whatever way it chooses, as long as it's in harmony with itself, nature, and its surroundings. And that, my friend, is the ultimate truth in this universe; anything else is simply bullshit, which is fabricated to amass power and establish control over you.
We were so indoctrinated growing up. Even before our births, we were pre-defined and pre-assigned based on where, when, who, and how our inherited family was. The break of social classes was unimaginable until recently. But after a mere few hundred years, people again find themselves amid worsening cases of class solidification. Sharing what they possess is far from being considered essential to the core social structure. In contrast, in this current setup done by men from history to now, possessing and owning only is the core.
Even among all men, they couldn't sort out a better system that would avoid or reduce conflicts and wars for tens of thousands of years. Women, we are merely objects for them to own and possess.
Hence why? Why should this society exert such power and control over me? Why should it impose, and why should I accept its definition of me? And if I reject their definition of me, I should reject their definition of love, affection, relationship, fulfillment, and all.
Henceforth, I should only experience what's left in my journey here without presumption and anticipation; I should measure the depth and meaningness of my time here with nothing this society could offer. I might still be the object that gets owned and passed around; I might never be able to recreate a system where I'm 100% free. But my mind, my spirit, you can't bend.
"Growing without definition" -- I especially like that!
Part 2
"Everything went wrong.
I wonder if women a hundred years ago could have foreseen the dreadful twists and turns happening today that are drastically changing humans' future course.
Until the conclusion of the fourth wave of the feminist movement, most people still held high hopes for how feminism could improve humanity. The first wave (from 1848) pushed for women's education, occupation, property, and voting rights; the second wave (from 1963), influenced by Beauvoir’s "The Second Sex," granted women more freedom to their own lives and bodies, as a result, abortion was gradually made legal globally, riding on vehement opposition from religious fundamentalists, a lot of backs and forths continued to be carried out long after it; the third wave (from the 1990s) started to be more fluid and expanded to all races, classes, and ethnicities, this wave sought to challenge, reclaim, and redefine ideas of the self, femininity, also touched on gender fluidity, sexual identity and decolonization in all aspects such as love, relationship and individuality; the fourth wave (from 2030s) aimed to deconstruct the established societal and familial structures such as the marriage contract of one man and one woman under the imposition of major religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddism, and reconstruct new structures that allowed a diversity of familial relations, such as polyamory, matriarchal-style nesting and the formation of "women and LGBTQ-only" supportive groups and chosen-family framework.
The fourth wave. The fourth wave!
I hail the brave humans who once existed around that time!
If the first three waves were to only pave the way to the fourth one. The fourth wave was indeed a gleaming steel blade thrust straight into patriarchy's heart's core, slicing through flesh and bone with merciless precision.
Throughout human history, the major religions have often expanded through dominance, absorbing or eliminating smaller sects and sub-religions in their path, shaping the landscape of human belief systems. Until the fourth wave of the feminist movement, patriarchy was unshakably at the center of religious indoctrination and imposition. Religion, patriarchy, and colonization had been the main dominant narratives from the very beginning of human history up to a hundred years back; they essentially told the same story of humans: power, control, and expansion of the male species of humans.
