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between men
and women in their real everyday lives.

We shall repeat the Pink Floyd quote once again for emphasis:

did you exchange…a walk on part in the war…for a lead role in a cage?

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So is it not now clearer that we have thrown our male heroism and Spartacus spirit
away, to be a feeble “new man”, who is his wife or gi rlfriend’s slave and puppet, and
really that she is his “goddess”, who like Jim Carrey’s imprisoned and manipulated
Truman, she is keeping in her cage, just as the sadomasochistic “goddesses” do?

And then we must ask ourselves honestly - do we really care, do we really care that
we will never if things carry on this way be proud, dignified, masterful men, but only
live on fantasy dreams, like those provide d by comic book superheroes and screen
“macho men” such as Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and
all the rest?

None of those mostly likeable gentlemen could in real life do the things we see them
act out onscreen. Just like the rest of us, in real life, they would be dead within the
first or second reel. They merely have got rich by feeding us a pure fantasy of the
heroes that neither we or even they will ever truly be.

Or we can equally get lost in “male empow erment” fantasies of being great knights
and warriors inside a computer video game.

We play at being only fantasy heroes whilst women are getting more and more
empowered, and taking more and more jobs and positions of high office and business
success in the real world.

So really, could we see beyond our comic book heroes and video screens, we would
have to face up to that fact that in the real world we are no heroes, and women are just
laughing at us, we little boys and our little toys. Is that what we want life to be like –
pretending to be a man while women mock a nd scorn us? Or would we be so bold to
consider attempting the real thing, which is uncertain in outcome and scary indeed?

As the rather more sophisticated than app eared at first sight 1970s “punk rock band”,
The Stranglers said, there are No More Heroes Any More.

And no apology is made for making conti nuous quotes from popular culture rather
than so called “mainstream psychology” or “academic research.” Because though the
society is currently being ruled by the academic and scientist, either of the physical or
“social” kind – since he or she is the a dviser to government right now – it is put to
you that the truth of society is being commentated more significantly, as ever, by the
philosopher, the artist, the writer.

Science has its place, much of the technology it has created is at least for the moment
essential to our lives, but it is not answ ering our fundamental questions, it is not
solving our political and social problems, it is not satisfying the gnawing emptiness in
our hearts and minds.

So for a different solution let us turn to John Lennon for example, in his hit song Mind
Games :

Love is the answer, he says, or in his earlier Beatles days - All You Need Is Love.

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But then we have him saying in the heart rending Mother , reflecting on his own real
childhood:

Mother, you had me - but I never had you,
I wanted you - but you didn't want me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.

Father, you left me - but I never left you,
I needed you - but you didn't need me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.

Children, don't do - what I have done,
I couldn't walk - and I tried to run,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.

Mama don't go,
Daddy come home.
Mama don't go,
Daddy