Kali Yuga
A cosmic HR retreat
There’s some discourse going around online about a woman’s account of her dumping her boyfriend as a fourteen year old. He went through some personal tragedy, she was disgusted by his display of emotion, and she made an arbitrary demand — I believe it was staying up to hear a song on the radio — which he complied with. Further disgusted, she dumped him a few days later.
While there might be a streak of teenage cruelty therein, the consensus from internet psychologists is that this test contains an element of wisdom. She intuited weakness, but wanted strength. So she came up with a plan to test her boyfriend. A shit test. He did not pass. As the author herself states: “The only way he could have held on to me at that point was to call me out for being a manipulative bitch.”
This type of behavior is an intuitive way to test men’s character that all women perform on some level. Some will be subtle and skillful about it, weeding out potential partners with efficacy and grace. Others will be slow and clumsy, getting into long and troubled relationships before finally feeling disgusted enough to leave.
A further set will be excessive about these tests and the man will have enough and leave himself, or respond with physical violence. The opposite of these types are the people pleasers, who do not test but enable weak behavior. This type of behavior, of course, will only attract men with weak behavior, and repel the strong. And still lead to resentment from both parties.
At a certain level, shit testing is a manifestation of wisdom. Just as it is compassion for a man to say “you’re being a manipulative bitch.” Paradoxically, such a statement brings immense emotional security. This is not a man who will be disturbed by my emotions, or the provocations of others.
Otherwise responsible men often have a very difficult time with these tests. Especially without a good male role model to train their minds to develop sufficient confidence that they can recognize and effectively respond to such manipulative shit testing from women. Many are the product of single mothers and a school system dominated by women, trained from a young age to comply with every demand that a woman makes. And as adults they may still be managed by women in some “Human Resources” department. So they are set up for failure by their very upbringing, and even the corporate managerial structure.
This HR-ification of the world can be seen in the increasing amounts of censorship in media with taboo words, protected groups, and so forth. Society becomes more like a nursery. People become increasingly conformist and unwilling to speak their mind. The stifling control of the matriarchal longhouse rather than the freedom of the patriarchal kingdom.
According to Buddhist and Vedic cosmology, we live in the Kali Yuga, the wrathful and destructive temporal embodiment of feminine energy. A period of continuous cosmic shit testing. Which men keep failing. Every bit of “social progress” can be seen as men acceding to the demands of women who are collectively seeking strength and order. Instead, women are granted further responsibility and privilege formerly reserved for men. So they react with disgust and, consciously or unconsciously, seek to destroy the men, unwanted children, and society at large.
Women’s suffrage, gay rights, trans kids, refugees. There will always be some minority group or cause that’s a substitute for an infant. It will never be enough. Not until a man comes who puts an end to it all. Armageddon, the Rapture, Ragnarok. The age of Kali, its laws and concepts therein come to an end through cleansing fire. High technology, banking, just-in-time supply chains, destroyed. Relics like the pyramids. The return of the savage cave man, like domestic pigs turned feral. Finally, women are happier.
This is supposedly the age of the greatest amount of strife and suffering in the world. Looking at headlines and downtowns, it’s not hard to believe.
We can opt out of these funny games even if we are a part of the modern world. We can observe the aggression of women and the weakness of men from the vantage point of a “pure view.” Women’s shit tests are confused attempts at acting with wisdom. Men’s failures are confused attempts at acting with compassion.
Women challenging men can be completely healthy and natural. The wisdom of space guiding and supporting the skillful activity of active compassion. A spontaneous and intuitive dance that brings joy to all. The wide view and intuition of the feminine together with the focus and rational skill of the masculine.
This requires an acknowledgment and engagement of the fundamental masculine and feminine nature which many will find difficult to embrace. A retreat to a monastery or nunnery may be more useful for such individuals.