A six-foot-five man from Baghdad with a tanned skin, a weathered, somewhat European-type face, and a large desert nose told me the following story.
He said his people back home in Iraq were an ethnic minority under attack from both Muslims and Christians. He explained to me that their people used to live in what he called “sacchoras”, autonomous communities each built around a hill, the slopes of which they used to do agriculture.
There were no borders between the communities, and people moved freely, he said. Above all, they were atheists. In their communities, women solved political matters, and men and boys spent their days working in the field learning about the behaviors of animals and plants.
They abhorred technology and worshiped Nature. The locals subsisted on a plant-based diet improved with milk and cheese. But they forbade the eating of meat. Killing animals was considered a sin. Furthermore, he told me that, long ago, lions used to eat flowers, not prey, and that eating meat was a modern invention.
At this point, I realized the man was a sort of prophet trying to sell me his religion of vegan atheism. But it kept me thinking, for the tale contained a different kind of truth, namely that human beings have the choice to either live as vegan atheists or as religious meat-eaters, though I couldn’t quite figure out why eating meat, as well as the hunting and killing of prey, somehow made people more religious.
The Old Testament story of Genesis, for example, repeats over and over that greens and leaves are for the grazers, and that meat is for men. Human societies, too, tend to exist on this spectrum ranging from a far-left atheist matriarchy to a religious right-wing patriarchy. It is the difference between termites and lions.
Termites, and other social insects such as ants and bees, live in hives often ruled by a single queen Matriarch. These creatures secure their survival by adhering to a strict division of labor and of reproductive rights. A single queen lays all the eggs but most males are reduced to the status of worker drones who aren’t allowed to reproduce.
Termite societies divide their members into sterile workers, eunuch soldiers to police the workers, a small minority of winged reproductive males, a queen, and a king. Applying this principle of termites and ants to our society gives you Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a dystopian vision of the future in which test-tube babies are bred in factories and divided into artificial classes according to society’s need, rigid and regimented.
Who can deny that modern cities full of humans and the strong class distinctions that exist between different layers of urban society also represent, both in form and function, the colonies of termites and ants, if not the hives of bees? At this point, we have an almost sterile middle class, police to enforce our behavior, a private-jet class of Hollywood actors to entertain and distract us, and a self-styled elite living off of our labor.
Due to its inherent immobility, social colonies have to rely on long-distance logistics to feed their reproductively overactive queen. As the colony strips its immediate surroundings of edible resources, workers must travel further and further in order to provide for the colony.
On the edges of their territories, the workers come into contact with other colonies doing the same thing, and wars may break out between the soldiers of each colony fighting over the remaining resources. Some ants even resort to enslaving others.
There comes a point in every colony’s lifecycle that foraging and defensive efforts drain a colony’s ability to maintain order. Once the colony runs out of resources, the soldiers may begin to kill or cannibalize their workers. Soon, the colony begins to starve.
The queen and her king are forced to leave the colony to start over or must produce a daughter who might start another.
The same holds true for urban civilization. Our supply lines have globalized. Each city represents a sort of termite colony that survives only through this complex web of international dependencies. The rule of the city becomes ever more ruthlessly focused on efficiency. Freedoms civilians used to enjoy must be curbed in order to keep society alive…
…for example, by going vegan. The production of meat is deemed too costly, too inefficient. We could feed more people if we fed them grain and bugs. These are the arguments, then, this is how it starts, the signs of a society’s inevitable collapse. Next, religion becomes a “threat to our democracy”, for religious folks may resist state indoctrination. It makes them less efficient, economically speaking, less willing to submit to slavery.
Before we know it, the newspapers start questioning the very notion of freedom, referring to freedom as an entitlement of the White Supremacy.
Radical feminists such as Shulamith Firestone, a leading figure during the Second Wave period, would even go so far as to deconstruct the biological family. Of course! In order to turn humanity into a worldwide termite colony, we must sever people’s familial bonds. “Toxic masculinity” prevents the communist utopia from materializing. Some feminists even dream of eradicating the male sex altogether, replacing men with worker robots.
We would all be “better off” as scientific atheists living on a grain-based diet. But the North-West Europeans only recently adopted a settled city life. For the past several millennia, their ancestors evolved for the life of steppe pastoralists. The political attack on an animal food diet, then, is an attack on the health and wellbeing of European-type people.
Is there no alternative?
European Christian society, at least in the form of traditional upper-class Christianity, used to idealize a form of life that was the exact opposite of the vegan-atheist society. We find the best representation of it in Walt Disney’s The Lion King, the most right-wing movie ever made for kids.
Lions, of course, need protein. Their success is determined by their muscle, and men, not women, rule the pride. There may not be as many lions as there are termites in the world but the life of a lion is in many ways freer than that of a worker slave on ant farm.
The best zoologists maintain that lion males don’t contribute much to the success of pride, but this ignores the fact that before a male lion may win a pride for himself, he must first learn to survive as an individual. Unlike female lionesses, who stick together as sisters, or as aunts and nieces, male lions going through puberty are cast out of the pride.
On their own, or sometimes with a brother or a cousin by their side, cut off from their families, males suffer life without the protection of their families. Their chances of survival are low. Only one in eight male lions eventually succeeds in fathering a pride of his own. The other seven die either of hunger, of loneliness, or in battle. Only the strongest, most aggressive, and most intelligent males win the competition.
This, then, is the difference between lions and termites. Termite workers don’t have to compete for life but they must live as slaves without reproductive rights. Male lions must compete fiercely but winners are rewarded with plenty of offspring.
Globalism means turning humanity into a termite colony in the service of a matriarchy. The proponents of this type of society are generally fearful people. Logically, they win the democratic support of an equally frightful popular majority who vote themselves into the cult of vegan atheism.
But a billion fearful men still can’t match a single lion. We know ant farms don’t last forever. Once the globalized world has exhausted the planet’s resources, and attempts at harvesting materials from outer space still can’t sustain our growth, urban civilization must inevitably collapse.
And once the dust settles, hungry lions will be waiting.
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