This Blog Will Be Updated Irregularly Going Forward

Just a heads up, dear followers.  Due to current events, going forward, this blog will be updated on a more irregular basis than in the past.  Don't worry, this blog is not going away!  Stay tuned, everyone.

To be continued.......

"Army Of Mother God" Video From 2015

A 2015 video by "Female Supremacy Now", about the late, great Guru Rasa Von Werder (RIP) and the emergence of a New Matriarchal Religion, Goddess willing.  Please share this video far and wide, everyone!  It's what she would have wanted.

VIVE LA FEMME!  VIVE LA DIFFERENCE!

If Purgatory Had A Soundtrack

I had been meaning to post this for a while, and now I finally got around to doing so.  As you may know, the late, great Guru Rasa Von Werder was a long time minister to souls in Purgatory.  Those who have been following her know some pretty famous (and infamous) names among those who she managed to get out of there.  My own personal views on the idea of Purgatory are a bit nuanced, complex, and in some ways still "on the fence", but it is certainly worth noting here nonetheless.

I have long wondered, what would the soundtrack of Purgatory be?  My personal favorite band, Five Finger Death Punch, has written several songs that could very easily fit the bill for that.  The lyrics may not exactly be about Purgatory proper (though the song I.O.U. does explicitly use that word nonetheless), but the earthly struggles (PTSD, war, addiction, regret, etc.) they discuss might as well be.

So here goes, largely in chronological order:

1) Far From Home 

2) Wrong Side of Heaven (and the Righteous Side of Hell)

3) The Agony of Regret (instrumental)

4) Cold

5) Digging My Own Grave

6) I Apologize 

7) Darkness Settles In

8) Judgement Day

9) I.O.U.

10) The End

And many more as well.  Never forget about the souls in Purgatory!

Is Demarchy (Sortition) A Pathway To Matriarchy By Stealth?

Convo by Pete Jackson and William Bond (2 out of 3 Musketeers), edited for clarity and brevity:

PETE:  Good morning, William.  I thought of another idea recently to get more women in power by stealth.  This would probably only work on the local scale, but as the saying goes, "all politics is local", and "you can't fight CITY Hall".

Enter "Demarchy", also known as "sortition" or "lottocracy" (see Wikipedia article here), where our leaders are selected at random by lottery, much like jury duty.  Ancient Athenians did that, as do the Amish to this day.  Problem is, both are/were extremely patriarchal.  My idea is, do that, at first gender neutral, but very crucially, unlike jury duty, make it OPTIONAL, so if one is selected, they are free to decline it without penalty, and select someone else, and so on.  That way, mostly Women will choose to take the positions, which will be more responsibility but very little added perks compared to not serving, and we all know how most men are congenitally allergic to responsibility, lol.  Men would be far more likely to opt out.  Result will be Women ultimately having more power than men, and the rest will be history, or should I say, HERSTORY.

What do you think?

WILLIAM:  Hi Pete

I have heard of the Demarchy, concept before. I agree that most men are not interested in political power but the problem is with the minority of men who do want political power. These men will do or say anything to gain power and use Machiavelli tactics to do this. Also the weakness of any democratic system is that wealthy men will bribe politicians to do what they want and unfortunately there are women politicians who are just as corrupt as male politicians. 

I think the only idea that might work is to have a matriarchal political party, of only women. Who believe in caring for the people they rule. Although I’m sure feminists will be strongly opposed to this and the party has to be strict about stamping out bribery and corruption. 

Regards William

PETE:  You are probably correct, William. I will think on this some more. 

Thank you for your insights 😊 

Pete

(PETE ADDS SOME ALLITERATION:  Alas, as I like to say, Mechanization is no match for the Machiavellian machinations of the moneyed elites.  Most of whom are MEN.)

WILLIAM:  Hi Pete

There is another way to look at this. While I was writing my latest book I was wondering that if God is a woman, then why are we living in a patriarchal society? You would assume that She would ensure that women ruled the world. But if I’m right that the purpose of our planet is for women to teach men how to love. Then She might of thought that perhaps letting men rule the world, might teach men some sense of responsibility. But I don’t think that has worked out.

But perhaps MotherGod is changing her mind about this, as we see with the rise of the Suffragettes and Feminists in the 20th century. So if MotherGod has decided that women should rule the world then that is going to happen.

Regards William

PETE:  Much to think about here, but I think you are right about that, William. Thank you for your excellent insights as usual.  

May your last prediction come true soon, Goddess willing!

Rehearsals For Retirement

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

They say, everything has a season.  In terms of our movement, my own season began in earnest when I first met both the legendary Guru Rasa Von Werder and the great prophet William Bond on Facebook on those fateful days in late 2015, a little over a decade ago. Having first serendipitously discovered their wonderful writings and ideas online a bit earlier in the Spring of 2014, it was truly an exciting experience for me.  It was thus in late 2015 that I essentially joined the Matriarchy movement.  After Rasa was unfairly and unceremoniously kicked off of Facebook in 2016, and then again for the final time in 2017, the three of us had begun communicating extensively via email, I created a new spinoff blog of my own as well, and as they say, the rest is history.  

Since then, the three of us have essentially been, as Rasa herself would often call us, "The Three Musketeers".  One for all, and all for one!  We have each contributed, in our own diverse and unique ways, to Rasa and William's shared blog (to which I was ultimately added as a co-author as well), my own blog, Rasa's own "Embodiment of God" site, and of course many, many books as well, from the first serious, full-fledged book to feature all three of us in it to some degree, "Woman Thou Art God:  The New Religion for Women" (written 2019, published for 2020), all the way up to and including her (and thus our) latest magnum opus, "The Religion of Sex: The Kill Switch to Patriarchy" in late 2025.  And we even wrote and at least refurbished several Wikipedia articles as well.  We have thus accomplished far more than I ever predicted we would in the past decade.  In the past couple of years alone, we three have, by the Grace of God as well as Rasa's superhuman capabilities and work ethic, gotten done what would have normally taken at least a decade to accomplish otherwise.

And we have seen recently on Facebook and elsewhere, Matriarchy is trending currently. More and more people are making reels about the topic, it seems.  It's always darkest just before the dawn.

As Associate Professor of the University of Mother God Church, a title that none other than Rasa herself has bestowed on me, I had been, for at least a year now, planning on eventually retiring from my position for a number of reasons, both personal and professional.  I know in my heart of hearts that my season is currently ending in that regard, as my own inner voice and "soul urge" has told me so repeatedly, which I cannot ignore any longer.  The most important work involving my own contributions has already been done.  My original plan was to gradually phase out my work with this movement and retire in 2027 or so.  And now with Rasa having recently passed away, and no clear or confirmed Woman successor yet to be the new leader of the movement (I already knew long ago in my heart of hearts that it cannot be me), I have decided to go ahead and set my intended plan into motion.  The year 2026 was originally intended by Rasa herself to be a relatively "fallow" year for our work anyway, and fallow it shall remain for the rest of the year, during which I shall be semi-retired.  And I have decided that on January 1, 2027, I will be officially fully retired, and will then be Associate Professor Emeritus.  (I will leave it up to the wisdom of William whether or not to promote me to full Professor in the meantime.)

Of course, I will still keep the blog alive to keep her memory alive, and will continue to do some writing here and there from time to time (albeit much less so than in the past), even after I fully retire in 2027.  Which is good, because as a man, the worst thing I could do to our movement is take up too much space and crowd it out.  Eventually, one will see clearly why I just HAD to retire when I did.  One thing I never do is "ghost" anyone unless they really do something to truly deserve it, and no one currently in our movement has ever fit that bill, in case anyone ever reading this feels concerned.  Retired professors of universities the world over have often continued to live full lives overall and, while some seem to have gone quietly into the night, others have often continued to make at least some contributions to their own fields of knowledge, or knowledge in general, to one degree or another well after officially retiring.

Aside from the blogs, both ours and mine, going forward I do not seek to actively or directly manage anything else of hers myself.  

And it should go without saying that, if and when Rasa's New Order for Women ever does get officially founded in my lifetime, God willing, I would obviously, as a man, play at most a very bit part if any at all.  Especially as a man who identifies as "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR) who does not fully agree with everything about the Order due to my philosophical, theological, and ideological differences with Rasa, as well as more left-libertarian.  While I still support Matriarchy in general, I personally tend to lean significantly more egalitarian, inclusive, and integrated than Rasa did.  The fate of the Order, and its operations, would be up to Rasa's true successor(s) in that regard, not me.  For the record, I do not seek to join it or manage it, and I will thus resolve to remain on the outside and not interfere in any way, shape, or form.

Ultimately, the fate of the broader movement in general would be up to the younger and future generations, as William has noted years ago.  

And finally, don't ever forget that we made history.  Future generations will certainly look back on this moment.  To quote the band Five Finger Death Punch in their song "Brighter Side of Grey":

"So wipe away the tears for me, know that we've made history.  Remember, no one ever really dies."

In the tradition of how Rasa would conclude the vast majority of her articles and blog posts, here are some cute fuzzy kitties and adjacents:

P.S.  The title of this post was the name of a song and album by the late folk singer Phil Ochs (RIP).

P.P.S.  I would be remiss if I didn't give special thanks to Dave, who has served as Rasa's webman for many years.  You are very much appreciated!

Sarah McLachlan -- "Angel"

 RIP Guru Rasa Von Werder.  You will be missed.

"Brighter Side of Grey" by Five Finger Death Punch

The best and most relevant lyric in the song:  "So wipe away the tears for me, know that we've made history.  Remember, no one ever really dies."

We certainly have made history, The Three Musketeers!  One for all, and all for one!

"Gone Away" Cover by Five Finger Death Punch

 

Gone, but never forgotten.  You will be missed, Rasa!

Rest In Peace, Guru Rasa Von Werder

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

With the heaviest of hearts, William and I have recently come to learn from a credible source that our beloved friend, associate, and movement leader, the legendary Guru Rasa Von Werder, has passed away.  She would have been 81 years of age had she lived to July 16, but apparently she took her final breaths sometime on or before June 5, about a month ago.  She was known to have had a bad heart for a while now, which she had struggled with for over a decade, having miraculously survived at least five heart attacks over the years, which took their toll.  The exact details surrounding her passing are not entirely clear yet at this time.  

We were both truly hoping that, as the late Mark Twain famously quipped, that "the reports of [her] death are greatly exaggerated", but alas, I managed to confirm it with another source (i.e. one of her other, more local friends and associates).

Born Rasa Sofija Jakstas on July 16, 1945, and also known as Kellie Everts, Rasa has accomplished far more than most people in all of recorded history during her eight decades of life.  From being the founder (progenitor) of female bodybuilding, to being the "Stripper For God" to ultimately being the founder of her own church and religion plus the Matriarchy movement, she was truly the toughest act to follow.  A walking, talking miracle if there ever was one, she truly revolutionized so much!

I myself have no doubts that she went straight to Heaven, and among the very highest places therein, however one understands that concept of the very best parts of Great Beyond.  (Or if there was any sort of delay in getting there, it would have been far too brief to be noteworthy.)  If you believe that suffering is good for the soul, well, she certainly earned her way in!  Substitute "charity" in place of "suffering", and that would apply a fortiori for her as well.  Alternatively, if you believe simply in divine grace, well, that was also equally evident in her life on Earth as well.  Same with predestination as well.  In other words, anyway you look at (grace, merit, predestination, karma, or even chance), there can be no doubt that if there is a Heaven, she is certainly there right now looking down.  And as one of the oldest of "old souls" most likely, she perhaps even achieved full-fledged Nirvana as well by now, merging completely with Mother God Herself.  She truly had a heart of gold.

And finally, above all, what she wanted to be known for most of all, was the the fact that, in her own words, she "obeyed God".

Rest in peace, Guru Rasa Von Werder.  Forever a legend, never to be forgotten.

Rasa Von Werder 

1945-2026

The Gender War: A War Men Lost Before The War Began

The 1960s protest folk song "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land by the late, great Phil Ochs, was written about the Vietnam War.  With lyrics like, "Every battle won is just another grain of sand," and "Oh, we're fighting in a war we lost, before the war began", that were as poignant as they were prescient, it really described that war quite well indeed.  And would also apply by anticipation to the later wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran as well.

I can't help but think that such a song also applies a fortiori to the 7000+ year gender war.  You know the War on Women, that we call "patriarchy" to make it sound nicer.  Truly, much like the Americans in Vietnam, it's a war men have already lost before the war began, despite winning nearly every single battle.  Most are just too dumb or ignorant to see it, but more and more are catching on, hence all the angry, violent, and testerical lashing out we are seeing lately from reactionary men.

Men's biggest fear is of course that they will lose. That is, what what losing would really mean?  But at the same time, Women's biggest fear in that regard is actually that Women will win.  That is, what would winning really mean?  Yes, fear of winning!  That goes to show just how deep the toxic patriarchal brainwashing goes.

The mutually beneficial solution, then, is simple.  Men need to accept that they have lost the gender war, and thus surrender to Women.  And Women need to accept they they have won the gender war, and whatever the terms of surrender that are mutually agreed upon.  Only then can humanity's longest war finally end, Goddess willing.

So what are we waiting for?  Let the planetary healing begin!

"White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land", Phil Ochs, 1965 Demo Version 

"White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land", Phil Ochs, 1968 Album Version 

Happy Mother's Day!

  

First, I would like to wish a Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful Mothers out there.  You are, after all, literally the reason why the human race even exists at all, despite the fact that the work you do is grossly undervalued in so many way by our twisted capitalistic and patriarchal society.  In other words, your beautiful feminine energy is essentially what keeps the rest of us alive.  

Thank you.

I would also like to note and lament how, for all the shallow platitudes America likes to throw around about "Mothers and apple pie", we are still a nation that perpetually continues to screw over Mothers and pregnant Women in so many ways.  Years ago, the legendary Guru Rasa Von Werder shared with us a poignant and in-depth article from Vox (see here) with us that illustrates the various ways in which that is true.  This article should truly be food for thought indeed.  Our patriarchal and capitalistic society clearly has a "cult of motherhood", in which the "ideal" of motherhood is so highly vaunted, worshipped even, but in practice actual Mothers themselves get about as much genuine respect as Rodney Dangerfield.  Both during and after pregnancy, so many Mothers are routinely discriminated against, overworked, underpaid, and even outright criminalized in many cases.  And meanwhile, there is to this day a powerful faction of mostly male politicians that is doing everything in their power to deny Women their right to choose whether or not to get (or stay) pregnant in the first place.  Indeed, the rank hypocrisy of our utterly misogynistic, hypocritical, and pharisaical system is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Meanwhile, old Buckminster Fuller (who, not coincidentally, believed that Women should rule the world) must be spinning in his grave right now.  With today's technology and innovation, there is literally no legitimate reason why we as a society need "everybody and their mother" (literally!) to "work for a living" unless they really wanted to.  There are more than enough resources in the world for everyone on this planet to live like a millionaire, but the greedy oligarchs who control such resources apparently don't want to share.  Combined with the outdated scarcity mentality that men tend to favor (as opposed to the abundance mentality that Women tend to favor), those same oligarchs have also done everything in their power to sabotage any alternatives (i.e. free and renewable energy) to their own evil system that they force upon the rest of us.  So why make them even richer?

Additionally, just as we should "dispense with the absolutely specious notion that everybody needs to earn a living" (in Bucky's words), so too should we jettison the equally specious and outdated idea that "everybody must procreate" as though it were a civic duty.  Not only does today's technology make much useful human labor redundant, but the world is grossly overpopulated and will only get more so in the coming decades, and despite the abundance of the world's resources we are chewing through them like there is no tomorrow while destroying the planet.  And the main cause of that overpopulation is--wait for it--MEN.  Because they are the ones who, both historically and today, force, coerce, deceive, and/or manipulate Women to have kids that they otherwise would not want or are not yet ready for.  Men like to "get 'em while they're young" and then use them as serial breeding slaves, essentially, and all the euphemisms in the world do not change that fact.  It is really no coincidence that the two most effective (and ethical) ways to reduce overpopulation and excessively high birthrates are 1) female empowerment and 2) poverty reduction, while everything else is a mere sideshow.  Because when Women actually have a free and genuine choice on when or whether or not to reproduce, they usually make the right choices overall.  After all, they are the ones who have the most "skin in the game", therefore they would know best.

And to those folks with the audacity to worry about low and falling birthrates in the rich countries these days?  Well, that's a GOOD thing on balance.  It's almost like Gaia is trying to tell us all something.  And it should go without saying, of course, but NO ONE should EVER be forced, coerced, deceived, or manipulated into motherhood. It must ALWAYS be an individual choice, as anything else is slavery.  End of.  

So let the planetary healing begin! 

MAMASTE

RIP Ted Turner

On May 6, 2026, the iconic American businessman and television producer Ted Turner has passed away at the age of 87.  Of note, he went on the record saying the following quote:

"I've said for years and I'm really serious about it, I think men should be barred from holding public office for a hundred years.  They have been running the world for the last thousands of years and they've mucked it up something awful.' I built my business surrounding myself with women. I find women more superior to men in business-"

A very wise man indeed!  May he rest in peace.

Happy May Day / Beltane, Everyone!

Today, May 1, is May Day, also known as the Celtic and Neopagan holiday of Beltane.  It has a rather long history and symbolizes many things, but it is most notably a day to honor the Goddess, which includes the Goddess in every Woman.  Elephant Journal describes it rather nicely in their article a few years ago about the holiday:

Halfway between the Vernal Equinox and the Summer Solstice falls May Day—the original holiday of sex and abundance.  If you’ve ever wondered, as I used to, what the hype was around May Day—as in why I always heard about ‘May Day’ but never seemed to witness anyone actually celebrating, here’s why. It’s deeply rooted in pagan nature and hedonistic sex worship and celebrations. As Christianity spread and the Church extended its reach and control, these pagan and Divine worships of masculine and feminine equality had to be forgotten.  May 1st is Beltane in the Northern Hemisphere, the day we honor nature’s oldest love story.  And we all love a love story.   This is a holiday of union, between man and woman, God and Goddess—a celebration of the divine balance in the union of Divine masculine and feminine. Because once upon a time, the two were honored as sacred parts of the one Divine balance.

Indeed.  And among Neopagans today, Beltane is (usually) primarily about honoring the Divine Feminine, where as Samhain (October 31) is primarily about honoring the Divine Masculine.  Thus, I propose that we shift International Women's Day (currently March 8) to May 1, and shift International Men's Day (November 19, coinciding with World Toilet Day, lol) to November 1. The latter, of course, should not be seen as a day to celebrate men, but rather as a day of atonement for the evil that men do, and have done for thousands of years now--a sort of all-male equivalent of the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur to essentially apologize to the Divine Feminine.  

Honestly, it's the least us fellas could do.

Another holiday I would like to propose is Waterloo Day, on April 30, the day before May Day.  That would symbolize the (hopefully) eventual surrender of men to Women, which I had once personally predicted will occur on April 30, 2030--the end of an error.  (Current events have made me far less sanguine about that prediction, and it is most likely much farther away than 2030, at least 2040 or 2050 if not later.)  Just as that day symbolizes the end of the "darker half" of the year and the beginning of the "lighter half", so too shall it symbolize the end of the 7000 years of darkness known as patriarchy and the beginning of the new earthly paradise known as Matriarchy.  Note too that April 30, 1975 was also when the Vietnam War officially ended, albeit ignominiously, with the Fall of Saigon.  And also there was April 30, 1945 when a certain little painter from Austria did the world a huge favor by offing himself.  And the song "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath was originally going to be called "Walpurgisnacht", which is another name for May Eve, or April 30.  One idea for how to celebrate Waterloo Day would be for the men to get up on a platform or podium, give a concession speech as though stepping down from power, and have all the Women heckle and throw rotten tomatoes at them.  All while the men sing the song "Waterloo" by ABBA, lol.

It also happens to be International Worker's Day as well, by the way..  Workers of the world.....relax.

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs, a song that has aged VERY well, especially these days!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

"The End of Patriarchy - and The Dawning of A Tri-Une Society" by Claudio Naranjo

"The End of Patriarchy - and The Dawning of A Tri-Une Society" by the late Claudio Naranjo is worth a read.  I consider it to be among the classics now:

https://www.scribd.com/document/558145789/Claudio-Naranjo-The-End-of-Patriarchy-and-the-Dawning-of-a-Tri-Une-Society

Do Men Really Benefit From Patriarchy?

Do men really benefit from patriarchy?  Yes and no.  In a relative sense, yes, but in an absolute sense, no.

The vast majority of us fellas get chewed up and spat out by the system, at least in the long run.  It is a NEGATIVE-sum game.  And people of ALL genders would be better off without it.  Keep in mind that it also intersects with oligarchy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, and the larger kyriarchy as well.  It is one big Ponzi pyramid scheme and protection racket, and literally the largest and oldest one.

I think of it like this.  If the bad guys were to suddenly vanish from the face of the Earth, would the good guys be better off, or worse off, on balance?  I think the answer is pretty obvious.  Just like that famous natural experiment with the baboons, where the most violent and aggressive ones ate the tainted meat and removed themselves from the population.  The rest of them, both male and female, were significantly better off on balance.  Let that sink in for a moment.

So fellas, we seriously need to stop carrying water for that system that would throw us under the bus for 50 cents without a second thought.  Yesterday.

(Mic drop)

Excellent Article By Gabrielle Stanley Blair: "Men Are The Secondary Sex"

Happy International Women's Day!

Here is an excellent Substack article by the ever-insightful author Gabrielle Stanley Blair, "Males Are The Secondary Sex," in which she essentially advocates for Matriarchy instead of patriarchy, and how men are basically drones, not leaders.

https://open.substack.com/pub/designmom/p/males-are-the-secondary-sex

It seems like the idea of Matriarchy is finally catching on, God willing!

P.S. You may remember this same author had written "Ejaculate Responsibly" a few years ago, also a great read as well.  In a nutshell, it's basically about how the real cause of unwanted pregnancies is MEN, and how the onus for prevention really should be on them, not Women.  She makes excellent points here.

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs

"I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs, a song that has aged VERY well, especially these days!

War Is A Racket (Updated Re-Post)

                      

WAR.  It seems to be as old as time itself.  And so many people seem to think it is inevitable.  However, it turns out that is not really true.  War is neither timeless nor inevitable.   It has a beginning, and it has an end.  The beginning was about 7000 years ago (with the advent of patriarchy), while the end will be coming very soon (with the inevitable decline and fall of patriarchy, and rise of Women and Matriarchy in the not-too-distant future).  And the end can't come soon enough!

Patriarchy inherently rewards aggression and violence, no doubt about that.  And it messes with our heads so as to condition us to accept such violence as normal.  And of course there is men's tendency to think that war and scarcity are inevitable, which become self-fulfilling prophecies.  Women, on the other hand, would tend to reject such backwards thinking if they were in charge.  The late, great Buckminster Fuller said as much.

But there is also another reason why war is likely to occur under patriarchy, and that reason is discussed in depth by Major General Smedley Butler in his 1935 book, War Is A Racket.  Put simply, war is indeed a racket that is designed to further enrich the already ultra-rich oligarchs.  In other words, its genesis is none other than evil and powerful men who are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and kill for filthy lucre, and those sycophantic lackeys and ignorant masses who are brainwashed and duped to go along with it.   And of course, we know that patriarchy itself inevitably leads to oligarchy in the first place due to its "might makes right" and "winner take all" paradigm (that is nowadays most often cleverly disguised by the persistent and utterly hollow myth of "meritocracy").

Indeed, patriarchy itself be thought of as a gender war writ large, and the only way to end it once and for all--and all other wars that come from it--is for men to surrender to Women.  It's a war men have lost before the war even began, despite winning nearly every battle--men just don't realize it yet.

That said, General Butler's book is more about how the perennial racket of war actually works in practice, and how to smash it for good (as opposed to the why the oligarchy exists in the first place).  But it goes a very long way towards explaining it, and he would be spinning in his grave if he were to see today's massive, imperialistic war machine.

From the Wikipedia article:

In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.

The work is divided into five chapters:

1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!

It contains this summary:

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

Then he goes on to discuss who exactly profits from it and how.  It turns out it is not just weapons manufacturers, but also the big banks and other businesses that directly or indirectly deal with it as well.  In fact, the banksters are probably the biggest beneficiaries of war, since they lend money to finance it and then claw back so much in interest.  And manufacturers of non-weapons goods also have a market to sell their wares to in the military.  And of course, let's not forget all the resources plundered from the other countries as "spoils of war".

(And now we can add "defense contractors", aka mercenary corporations, such as DynCorp, Blackwater, Halliburton, KBR, Raytheon, et al. to the list of war profiteers as well.)

War is, of course, a negative-sum game overall.  It does not really create wealth on balance, it actually destroys more than it creates.  But it certainly brings in a ludicrous amount of ill-gotten wealth in the form of profit, plunder, and usury for the oligarchy.  As for the idea that it "stimulates the economy" in the short run, that is technically true, but as neo-Keynesian economist Dr. Paul Krugman has famously noted years ago, a faked alien invasion would be every bit as stimulating, but without all of the serious side effects such as countless deaths, injuries, PTSD, family breakdown, resource depletion, pollution, ecological damage, and property damage.

And guess who foots the bill for it all?  You guessed it--the taxpayers.  The oligarchs pull the wool over our eyes, while laughing all the way to the bank.  But truly the biggest part of the bill is paid for in blood by the soldiers themselves.  And even for those who survive the horrors of war, it still takes its toll on them regardless, both physically and psychologically.  And these soldiers generally hail not from the ranks of the wealthy, but rather from the poor and broader working class.  Not much has changed in that regard today, it seems.

(Note that since the gold standard was abolished in 1971, our Monetarily Sovereign federal government does not actually need taxes to fund anything, since they can just "print" (create) the money now if they wanted.  But since wars inherently chew through ludicrous amounts of non-monetary resources, all wars are thus inflationary regardless, so We the People still pay for it in the form of higher prices.)

And that's to say nothing of the human toll of civilians in the other countries as well, who bear the brunt of it.

Then, General Butler discusses how to smash this evil racket once and for all.  To summarize, the three steps are as follows:  1) Take the profit out of war, 2) Put it up to a vote (limited to those who would be eligible for the draft) as to whether or not a war should be declared, and 3) Limit our military forces to home defense purposes.  Otherwise, nothing will stop the racket.

Again, as noted on Wikipedia:

In the booklet's penultimate chapter, Butler recommended three steps to disrupt the war racket:

1. Making war unprofitable. Butler suggests that the means for war should be "conscripted" before those who would fight the war:

It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labour before the nation's manhood can be conscripted. […] Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our ship-builders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted — to get $30 a month [NOTE: that's $511/month in 2019 dollars], the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.

2. Acts of war to be decided by those who fight it. He also suggests a limited referendum to determine if the war is to be fought. Eligible to vote would be those who risk death on the front lines.
3. Limitation of militaries to self-defense. For the United States, Butler recommends that the Navy be limited, by law, to operating within 200 miles of the coastline, and the Army restricted to the territorial limits of the country, ensuring that war, if fought, can never be one of aggression. 

Indeed, the time to end all of this insanity and evil is yesterday.  So what do we do in the meantime while patriarchy still exists?  Thus, inspired by Butler, I propose that a new law be passed that we call the War Pigs Act, named after both the ineffectual and toothless War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the 1970 Black Sabbath song "War Pigs".  The first part of the new law would put some teeth in the War Powers Act by closing the loopholes and holding the President liable for any consequences of a war that is not authorized by Congress and is not during a state of emergency caused by an attack on the USA.  And absent a formal declaration of war by Congress, absolutely NO war may last beyond 90 days (60 days followed by a 30 day withdrawal), save for a temporary authorization of force that expires 90 days after the authorization passes or 180 days after the war began (if it began before the new law went into effect), whichever occurs first.  After that, there must be a formal declaration of war, or the war must end.  Period.

The second part of the law would implement some of General Butler's recommendations from his book, taking into account that we currently have an all-volunteer military.  Take the profit out of war, first of all.  Use the tax code to do so.  And for any war lasting beyond six months (which by definition would now require a formal declaration of war), require an annual limited plebiscite of all citizens that would be eligible for military service.  Make it a non-secret ballot such that those who vote "yes" would be drafted if we run out of volunteers, followed by those who abstain from the vote if necessary.  Those who vote "no" would be exempt from any such draft.  A kind of "consensual conscription", if you will.  We would all have skin in the game.  Women would be included as well, but before they draft the very first Woman, we should draft men in their 40s and 50s first.  That's the demographic group who starts the wars but rarely fights them.  It's only fair, right fellas?  Watch as war becomes a thing of the past, at least for the stupid ones and decade(s) long quagmires like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

(It would also be a good idea to do like the Iroquois once did:  give Women elders the power to VETO any decision to go to war.  That alone would prevent essentially all wars that are not waged in strict and absolute defense of the homeland.)

For the record, I am personally 100% against the draft on principle.  Unless absolutely necessary, I view it as a form of slavery and involuntary servitude, and if there were ever such a thing as a truly just war (as per St. Augustine's Just War Theory criteria), which is about as rare as a unicorn, conscription would be unnecessary, since volunteers would be plentiful.  And today's technology further makes it largely obsolete to raise such large numbers of boots on the ground.  But since nuance, gray areas, and exceptions that prove every rule do in fact exist in the real world (see WWII and the American Civil War, for example), I will note that if we ever must have a draft, only those who voted yes (or chose not to vote) for such a war should be drafted.

General Butler was a true American hero and patriot.  After his distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps including during WWI (during and after which he eventually found out just how much of a racket it really was), he later quashed an attempted Wall Street fascist coup against FDR's government in 1933-1934.  Yes, there really was a plot by the Rockefellers, Mellon Bank, Standard Oil, General Motors, Goodyear, US Steel, and many others (including pro-Nazi forces!) to overthrow the federal government and install their own fascist dictatorship do their bidding, complete with concentration camps for, in their own words, "Jews and other undesirables".  And the money for the plot bankrolled by the big banks/corporations was funneled through Prescott Bush's companies (yes, THAT Bush, who also did business with the Nazis as well).  They all thought they could use Butler for the plot and he pretended to play along at first, only to foil their plot by telling Congress about it just before it went ahead.  He literally saved America from falling to full-blown fascism, in other words.  He was indeed history's original whistleblower, and then in 1935, he wrote his magnum opus, which unfortunately fell on deaf ears the world over.

As General Butler famously said, 

"TO HELL WITH WAR!"

"Either war is obsolete, or man is."

-- Buckminster Fuller

"War, what is it good for?  Absolutely NOTHING!"

-- Edwin Starr

"Come the war, come the avarice, come the war, come hell...Come attrition, come the reek of bones, come attrition, come hell...This is why, why we fight, why we lie awake...And this is why, this is why we fight..."

-- The Decemberists

"Now the labor leader's screaming when they close the missile plant, United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore. Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason, but I ain't marching anymore."

-- Phil Ochs

"I declare the war is over, it's over, it's over..."

-- Phil Ochs

"But the hardest thing I'll ask you, if you would only try, is take your children by their hands and look into their eyes.  And there you'll see the answer you should have seen before.  If we win the wars at home, there'll be no fighting anymore"

-- Phil Ochs 

NO WAR WITH IRAN!

Those Epstein files must be REALLY BAD for Trump to literally start a war with Iran to distract from them!  Regardless of the reason why, this is a stupid, reckless and immoral war of choice, and we at the TSAP hereby condemn it in the strongest terms.

Hierarchy Is NOT A Dirty Word!

HIERARCHY.  There is that word again, a word that means practically all things to all people.  It gets loaded with all sorts of baggage depending on who you ask.  But it is neither inherently good NOR bad.

The Oxford dictionary definition of hierarchy is, "a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority."  The etymology is from late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhia, from hierarkhēs ‘sacred ruler’ (see hierarch). The earliest sense was ‘system of orders of angels and heavenly beings’; the other senses date from the 17th century.  Since then, the word has been used to refer to all sorts of ranking systems, from clergy to military to business to politics to society and beyond.

There is apparently a dogma in some circles that Women don't really LIKE hierarchies at all.  And while that dogma may have a kernel of truth (in that Women tend to have less of the classic libido dominandi, i.e. the "desire to dominate," than men do), it's mostly bunk.  Rather, it's more the NATURE of the hierarchy and what it is used for.

Far from jettisoning it wholesale, Riane Eisler had noted long ago that there are two main kinds of hierarchies:  hierarchies of domination (as seen in the dominator or authoritarian model), and hierarchies of actualization (as seen in the partnership or authoritative model).

Here is what Google has to say about it:

Hierarchies of domination and actualization differ in how power is used: domination systems rely on fear, force, and strict, top-down control to maintain inequity. In contrast, hierarchies of actualization (common in partnership systems) use power to empower others, fostering mutual respect, accountability, and growth. 

Hierarchies of Domination (Authoritarian)

• Structure: Strict, rigid, and top-down, often found in both family and state, normalizing inequity.
• Mechanism: Maintained through fear, force, and violence.
• Focus: Power "over" others to control, bully, and treat lower rungs as means to an end.
• Outcome: High levels of sanctioned violence and suppression of human potential. 

Hierarchies of Actualization (Partnership)

• Structure: Democratic and egalitarian, utilizing leaders/mentors to guide, not crush.
• Mechanism: Power is used to "empower" and "power with" others.
• Focus: Facilitating growth, creativity, and the fulfillment of potential.
• Outcome: Mutual respect, accountability, and valuing of care/nonviolence. 

Comparison

• Goal: Domination seeks control; actualization seeks development.
• Context: Domination is often "authoritarian," whereas actualization is "authoritative".
• Impact: Domination hampers growth, while actualization promotes "mission-driven creativity". 

While the "domination" approach is often ingrained, the shift to "actualization" represents a move toward partnership-oriented systems, where the goal is to foster human capacity rather than stifle it. 

And there you have it.  It would seem that Women would generally tend to prefer hierarchies of actualization rather than domination overall (while men tend to prefer hierarchies of domination, often to the point of a "king of the hill" game writ large, or perhaps a "pyramid scheme").  Note also that such a distinction should really be thought of as a spectrum rather than a binary, with many hierarchies falling somewhere in between in practice.  Also note how the apparent absence of formal hierarchy can create a power vacuum, and we all know how Nature feels about vacuums!  A sneaky, subtle, and informal hierarchy often develops in its place to fill the vacuum.  Natch. And clearly, at least in the MINDS of men, Women absolutely MUST occupy the "alpha" position, even if only as a placeholder to keep men from occupying that position, regardless of what the actual hierarchy is like in practice.

In other words, the truth is of course far more nuanced and complex than "hierarchies of domination are great and the natural order of things!" or "all hierarchies are bad and inherently unethical!".  And of course, such nuances don't fit easily onto a bumper sticker, T-shirt, or meme.  But that doesn't make it any less true.

If one were to distill it into a meme, bumper sticker, or T-shirt slogan, the best one would probably be, "Hierarchy is NOT a dirty word! Even bonobos have hierarchies, just more evolved ones".  (True by the way.)