What Is This All About, Anyway?

Hello, everyone!  I am Ajax the Great, and I am and have been the party leader and founder of the True Spirit of America Party since 2009.  The TSAP is a progressive libertarian third party that has evolved dramatically over the past several years. 

In the spring of 2014, five years after founding the TSAP and shortly after my 30th birthday, I had somewhat of a spiritual awakening.  After doing a bit of debating in the comments section of an AlterNet article about gender, a woman there introduced to me a book called The Natural Superiority of Women, written by Ashley Montagu in 1953 and updated several times since then.  After reading it online via Google Books, as fate would have it I also noticed something in the Google results after Googling the title of that book.  It was a link to the distinguished Guru Rasa von Werder's main website, Woman Thou Art God, which cited this book rather heavily.  After reading that site extensively, as well as some of Guru Rasa's other sites and her links to others such as the great author and pundit William Bond, I was basically hooked on the idea of Matriarchy from then onward.  After some more study I found that there were indeed others who essentially felt the same way, including the late great Buckminster Fuller and a woman who actually met him in 1982 and is carrying on his legacy, Pat Ravasio.  And reading Paul Levy's book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil also helped it all click together in my mind, as did Jack D. Forbes' book Columbus and Other Cannibals.  Riane Eisler's work also dovetailed nicely with such ideas.

I then realized that it ain't gonna be us fellas who save the world.  We paved paradise and put up a parking lot, we created a desert and called it "peace".  We devoured and suffocated our own empire, and our proverbial 15 minutes of fame (which lasted about 7000 years or so) is almost up.  The agony of regret.  Only Women would really be able to save the world, and to do so they must take over.  Yesterday.  The futurists are virtually unanimous about this:  the future belongs to Women.  And when they take over, I believe that they will not only save the world, but will re-create paradise on Earth.  Reverse-engineering the Garden of Eden, essentially--and men will benefit from it as well.  After all, patriarchy hurts men as well, as it is an evil and thoroughly corrupt system that has a rather nasty habit of backfiring.  And note that Matriarchy, properly defined, is NOT merely the mirror image of patriarchy, but rather is a fundamentally different paradigm altogether.  Thus, I effectively joined the Matriarchy movement personally in 2014 and the TSAP officially joined in early 2016.   I am oversimplifying things a bit but that's basically how my first spiritual awakening occurred, as well as further awakenings from 2015 to the present day.  I have also had the pleasure of meeting and talking with both Guru Rasa and William Bond on Facebook as well since late 2015.

Thus, in early 2016, I decided to create this spinoff blog, The Chalice and the Flame.   The name comes from the title of Riane Eisler's 1988 book The Chalice and the Blade, as well as the flaming chalice symbol of Unitarian Universalism, in addition to the Cheap Trick's famous 1988 power ballad, "The Flame".  The Chalice is a classic feminine symbol while the Flame is a classic masculine symbol, and while the Blade is also a masculine symbol, it represents death and destruction (i.e. toxic masculinity) rather than the kind of healthy masculinity that we should be promoting instead.  And if you pay attention, the lyrics of "The Flame" basically fit our movement perfectly.  Ladies, you were the first, and you'll be the last--to rule the world, that is.  All aboard the Eden Express!