THE REPARENTING REVOLUTION From a Power-Based To a Love-Based Society NEVILLE RAYMOND © 2017 by Neville Raymond Printing company ISBN DEDICATION To my wife and two sons – may they live long enough to rejoice in the family of man. 3 CONTENTS Preface ....................................................................... 11 I. MAYDAY MORALITY ................................................. 21 1. Who are You or I to Change The World .........................24 2. Tweedledumb Vs. Tweedledumber ..................................20 3. Dominating Through Emotional Jujitsu ......................... 29 4. Hanging the Standard of Humanity Upside Down ........ 34 5. The Crack-Up of Spaceship Earth .................................... 38 6. Symptoms of STSD Left Untreated in Perpetuity............41 7. From the Glacier of Tears to the Vale of Tears ................46 8. Rekindling the Human Brand From the Abyss of Extinction ............................................50 9. The Freedom to Get a Life is the Only Freedom Worth Fighting For ...............................................55 5 II. LOVE – THE MOST CONSERVATIVE FORCE ON EARTH .........................................................59 10. Love as the Oracular Path to Self-Knowledge ...............60 11. The Power of Psychology to Shrink the World ............. 65 12. Putting the World Together – The Flip Side of E=Mc2 ....68 13. Building Society’s Foundations in the Air ..................... 72 14. Dismissing the Foundation of Human Nature as Airy-Fairy .............................................. 77 15. Power as the Seminal Superstition ................................. 83 16. Don’t Go Changing Human Nature ...............................88 17. Birth of Faux Conservatism: Burning the Book of Love.. 95 18. The Brotherhood of Man Has Always Been Child’s Play ....97 19. Enough With the Catastrophes – It’s Time for a Eucatastrophe ..............................................102 6 III. THE TRASHCAN BABY – A REVOLUTION IN CHILD-RAISING......................108 20. The Blood of Martyred Emperors Seeds the Church of Imperialism ...................................... 109 21. The Only Thing Worse than Being Eaten By a Monster is Identifying With It ..........................113 22. The Rebranding of Moral Anarchy as ‘Conservatism’ ...119 23. The Divine Right of Kongs ............................................124 24. Occam’s Razor – Superweapon of Organic Conservatism ................................................ 129 25. A Regicidal Campaign Spanning the Ages .................. 137 26. When Mankind Becomes a Failed State ..................... 144 28. The Trashcan Baby as the Father of Existentialism ....150 28. Traditional Conservatism – The Ideology of the Trashcan Baby ........................................................... 155 7 IV. PSYCHOLOGY OF DEEP SPACE – THE UNDERBELLY OF PROGRESS .......................163 29. Making Each Other Happy is What It Means to Be Human ..........................................164 30. Space Center for Achieving Heaven on Earth ..............168 31. Heaven as the Participation Trophy of the Ages ..........172 32. Who Needs Legendary Camelots When We Have the Real Thing ............................................................................178 33. The Model of Hell – The Basis of the Power Principle ...... 183 34. The Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance – Or is It Doominance? ..................................189 35. The Low-Tech Space Program .......................................195 8 V. BREAKING OUT OF THE MILGRAM PARADIGM ................................. 202 36. Assimilated to the Gods Through Crucibles of Wrath .....203 37. Imagineering Evil Into Existence .................................208 38. Emotional Emasculation ...............................................214 39. The Demonization of Babies – The Enabling Myth of Child Abuse ...........................................219 40. A Model of Teaching Based on a Cosmic Blunder ..... 224 41. The Milgram Paradigm as a Fixture of History.......... 228 42. The Golden Rule Becomes as Sounding Brass .............233 43. Terrorism – Cleansing a Corrupt World Through Religious Violence ...............................................................239 44. The Timeless Power Trick – Sow A Divisive Spirit, Swear To Uphold The Peace .....................................245 9 VI. POWERING DOWN CONFLICT AND WAR ...250 45. Good Violence Cannot Exist Without Bad Violence ... 251 46. Let the Bad Times Roll ..................................................257 47. Some Kind of Cracy ...................................................... 265 48. To Cut and Run from Armageddon .............................273 49. We Are Not the Enemy! The Enemy Is from Outer Space! ........................................................... 279 10 PREFACE Men die because they cannot link together the beginning to the end. — Alcmaeon of Croton (c. 500 B.C.) 13 THE REPARENTING REVOLUTION The Question ouldn’t it be something if the mass shootings that Ware a fixture of modern-day life in America were a holdover from a time when the earth was a shooting gal- lery for the heavens? Or if unmanned aerial vehicles make a killing fields of the earth today because once upon a time man revered as gods the celestial forces that rained death and destruction from on high? Wouldn’t it boggle the mind to know that the cata- strophic fallout from comets long dreaded as bad news continues to inform the bad news we read about in the morning papers? Or that the most significant impact of fireballs from the sky are not giant craters in the ground but gaping holes in the ground of our being? Wouldn’t that radically alter our perception of how the world is organized? Once in a while a book flips a switch in our brains and changes the way we think. The Reparenting Revolution is such a book. And it begins by asking, Why is mankind such a ner- vous wreck? Love is the principle by which we organize the prosocial order of our being. Why then has power been the organizing principle for society for thousands of years? We do justice to our humanity by loving it unconditionally. Why then does our system of justice have more in 14 PREFACE common with a supernatural dispensation of hell and damnation than a natural one of nurture and affection? Our need for love, our affirmative zest for life, is rooted in our mammalian biology. Why then our cultural obsession with death, our com- pulsive mania for destruction? A logical place to start is what we know from first-hand experience. A soul-searing history of battery, rape, abandonment and neglect, is not good for the development of children. We know it breeds social deviance and all kinds of socio- pathic behavior. What of human history as a cavalcade organized by the four horsemen of the apocalypse? Doesn’t it occur to us to wonder what kind of universal background of death and destruction could account for history as such an encyclopedic dossier of crimes against humanity? If no mass murderer ever had a happy childhood, what can be extrapolated from our collective history of serial wars, mas- sacres, conquests and enslavements on a scale unimaginable? Can we safely deduce that mankind was terrorized from the cradle? And if mankind had a childhood from hell, who or what was responsible? Who were the authority figures who acted like abusive parents? Who were the martial arts teachers of mass mur- der and mayhem? Who were the demented role models that demanded that grown-ups be immolated as burnt of- ferings and children be initiated in crucibles of fire? In whose name did rulers oppress, exploit and enslave 15 THE REPARENTING REVOLUTION their fellow man? And to the greater glory of what beings did they launch endless cycles of invasions, conquests and wars? It’s time to draw the conclusion that has been building up for centuries. Our preoccupation with judgmental forms of violence and destruction in the present is a sure-fire sign of an apoc- alyptic Day of Judgment in the past. The human condition is seen clearly through the optics of childhood trauma. There is our trauma as individuals. And then there is our trauma as a species. And this book is the first attempt to synthesize the two to ignite a revolutionary new understanding of history. 16 PREFACE The Answer he premise of The Reparenting Revolution is as stark Tas it is simple. Our species suffered a series of near-death experiences. Ancient myths and legends speak of a Day of Destruction. Modern findings in geology and astrophysics prove it. And yet no reckoning has been made of its horrific toll on the human psyche. The handful who survived these earth-shattering ca- tastrophes were equal to the task of repopulating the earth – but they were in no shape to cope with their nerve-shat- tering trauma. And the ramifications of their trauma-crazed legacy have gone unnoticed and unexplored. Those who survived the cosmic firebombing of earth were de facto parents of humanity – mother and father of the never-ending barrage of assaults they passed on to the family of man. They could not very well remain grounded in their be- ings under such an insupportable weight of trauma. And so they split off from their humanity to identify with the celestial forces that aggressed against them, idolizing them as objects of worship known as gods. The flip side of man’s faith in gods is a corrosive distrust of human nature. Supernatural commands to please gods displace man’s natural instincts to find joy and pleasure in his being. A reign of terror instituted