Over the recent months, in the context of #feminicides and other everyday #violence, I'm starting to more and more think that #patriarchy is not the cause. It's just the tip of the iceberg. It's the widespread #detachment that just makes us not care about any signs of social problems around us... until these problems enter the always-hungry-for-sensations news cycle. But I'm struggling to find how to operationalise, measure and underline this hypothesis.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w7lBleOF9Pw
@mapto
Patriarchy and detachment are symptoms of the larger disease which is religion. Religion detaches humans from objective reality and facts. It places straight males of the religious minority at the top. Religion tells people that they are above nature and have dominion over it. It makes the horrors of capitalism acceptable, because according to religion, this world is just a test for the real show after we die. Religion makes people stupid and it makes them ignore objective reality.
@KawaTora religion is a very broad concept, I wouldn't think that e.g. Buddhism has the connotations you give to religion. Western Monotheism does have them. Yet, I am not very convinced from your argument.
In particular, I'd rather think that detachment is much more widespread as a consequence of the Century of the Self (as Adam Curtis calls it in the attached documentary) than in the religion-centric centuries before it, at least in Europe. Monotheistic religions do have a very strong notion of community.
