Male and Female Cooperation: An Open Call for Justice

If my prediction is correct, it would mean that men also now might behave irresponsibly in society. It's not inaccurate. There are many asinine men these days as well, men who do not properly exercise responsibility. And if that's the case, no wonder, because the idea of behaving responsibly has been demeaned from its core. This explains a lot of things. It explains why we are, both men and women, so fractured as a society. People say outlandish things, because they don't understand that the ability to speak freely also comes with the responsibility to say things that one believes or knows to be truthful and original. I must say, as ridiculous as some women are, the men are often hardly any better! How often do I run into a man who seems odd, discombobulated, and senseless? Society at large has trouble doing a great many things, and taking the example of free speech is a good example. Is it only women who mindlessly sit around watching TV? No, people, Americans, do that.

Yet what is sitting around watching TV? It's being force-fed someone else's reality. The freedom that Americans have to do what they want also comes with the responsibility to use that freedom to be original. Let's take originality. Men and women will sit around scrolling Tik Tok, scrolling X, watching TV and YouTube, and in general regurgitating ideas which they have not formed or analyzed, and often cannot even accurately paraphrase. This results in the problem where neither men nor women behave responsibly. There is maybe still some culture among men of behaving responsibly with freedom, but it is by no means today universally practiced. People today lack originality. They scroll Tik Tok and watch YouTube, they regurgitate. If that's true, the issue was not giving women the right to vote, and the solution was not withholding it, but rather we should have extended the right to vote to women along with the civic responsibilities.

Now, whether or not voting should be an automatic right or you should be lawfully required to perform civic responsibilities is immaterial to the case. The point is that with freedom comes responsibility. With freedom comes a heavy, at minimum, expectation to use it responsibly. That can be a law, it can be a culture, it can be an individual will. We extended the right to women to vote without the same laws men were under, and replaced it with nothing–no culture, no individual will to be responsible, nothing. Then we gave men the right to vote under the same paradigm with no replacement. Why is this important? It's because it's a symbol. A symbol of what's going on. We, as Americans, destroyed responsibility, we destroyed freedom, and in doing so we destroyed ourselves.

So whose fault is it? Originally, it seems to have been both men and women's: men, not being responsible toward extending a right to women, and women not intuiting the disaster of being given it and articulating themselves. Today, however, the prediction of the women in my hypothetical message has come true, and neither women nor men in large behave responsibly. My favorite example is indeed the lack of originality, or the lack of self-honesty in speech. It's a wonderful thing to hear someone give an idea that they alone have produced, regardless of how wrong or correct it is, because of the sole fact it's theirs! Freedom was made to be yours, you have a responsibility to use it alone.

So whose fault is it now? Well, whose fault is it that both men and women behave irresponsibly? It must still be both of our faults. Still the fact that men don't exercise responsibility, and women don't remind them of the importance of doing so, so that men care enough about women to do so, and women come to know how. And if that's the case, then the solution is for men to behave responsibly, since, I suppose, we were the last ones who knew how, and for women to instruct men that they admire that responsibility in us, and wish to be properly instructed in its execution. Now, this is a solution at least in part borne out of historical circumstances, which could or could not be still present in sufficient number today for that characterization to be true, so that claim should be closely analyzed.

Yet it could also be argued that it's been a long time since anyone has known how to exercise rights responsibly, and that neither men nor women know how to. It's been some time since women knew how to use intuition in large scale to care for a home or community. If it's true that the culture of male accountability was by choice, and that men only have a slight natural advantage at it–it having to do with boundaries–then the onus of improvement really lies with anyone. Men held each other accountable really because they chose to, and chose to enforce that culture, not for any other reason. Now that that culture doesn't exist like it used to, there is no boost in men instructing anyone else on how to perform it. And anyone could learn how to revive that culture, that spirit. Perhaps the most helpful proposal is not for men to instruct women at this, nor for women to intuit what they want–since neither any longer knows how to behave or how to intuit for a community. Man or woman, if you know how to care for a community, or if you know how behave and help others behave, we need your help.

This leaves the problem very open-ended and nuanced. It's probably the most sober thing I've said thus far. Originally, women were tasked with fostering a good and friendly community, caring for people and so forth. Originally, men had to act responsibly. But now, we don't know what the hell we're doing. Nobody does, regardless of gender. It's the truth. Boys and girls don't communicate clearly to each other what they want, they don't as a community offer a form of friendship and clear conscience in intent. Men and women do not act freely and with responsibility, but too often on both sides do or say whatever the hell they want without regard for consequences or integrity.

To tell a story, I've certainly said stupid things. I have. I read stories from not too long ago where a man, or a woman, would say something absurd, and they would be calmly yet firmly corrected, informed why they were mistaken, and conduced to produce a better opinion. That does not happen so often today. Very often if I say something ignorant, I may get laughed at, I may get ignored. Very rarely am I ever really held accountable. There are some, very few individuals I've run into who do this sort of thing, who hold me accountable, and who help me to produce better opinions, and these people are the light of mankind, among whom I strive to be one. In my quest for wisdom, I've largely been left on my own to say intelligent and remarkable things.

In all my life, I've ever only sought to say things that are truthful and original. That's all I've ever wanted out of the things I say. I understand there are those who are genuinely malevolent, and use free speech to demean themselves or others, who don't believe in the freedom and justice of humanity. Those people should be left in the dust. I'm not talking about those people. But when we see people who dearly strive for good, yet make understandable mistakes, we need to hold these people accountable in those mistakes and assist them in making good decisions.

The same is true for communicating openly. Look at what I've done far throughout this polemic, if I've been critical enough for it to rise to that level. I've been caring for the people I'm talking to, and I've been articulating what it is I want to see in them, from a place of good conscience and mutual, instinctive compassion. I want to seem more of this in America. In the world, even, but let's start here in America.

This is the solution. We will not do these things because we are a man or a woman, but because we are willing to care and to help, to hold and to wish.

Men, hold yourself accountable. Women, hold yourselves accountable. And people, men and women, hold everyone accountable. People, care for everybody, but also articulate what you want to see in other people, and from your heart explain why that is.