Jimmy Langkop

​Universal Historical Egalitarian Forces Driving Our Worldwide Cultural Evolution

 

• Goddess Rising (since 3000 BCE) - From the politics of the patriarchal religions, which subordinated women and established male superiority that promoted misogyny, inquisitions, witch burnings, rape and sexual abuse the divine feminine is rising up in the world through women's suffrage, feminism, demand for equal rights, and the #MeToo movement as well as within ourselves for healing, balance, and wholeness.

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• Birth of Religious Egalitarianism – Taoism & Jesus (since 500 BCE? & 30 CE) - The teachings of Lao Tzu's equality of all life and Jesus' subversive, radical egalitarian message before the Church subverted it are the beginnings of religious equality teaching us how to create God's world here, aka "heaven on earth."  How? Live in harmony with all life, including nature, and love your neighbor, your enemy and yourself... for they all are God.

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• The Birth Political Egalitarianism (since 1776) - 'All men are created equal' in the Declaration of Independence transformed a revolt into a revolution for independence in America, but forever inspired others, women included, to create a world based on equality of all life ever since.

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• ​FemEquality (since 1792) - Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" laid the foundation for the worldwide women's equality movement arguing that women were not inferior to men, but were equals, and thus women and girls should have the equal education of men and boys.  In 1776 America Abigail Adams advocated privately in a letter to her husband, John Adams, for female citizenship and suffrage at the Continental Congress Convention.  Women banding together for equality have been an unstoppable force.  FemEquality is not just for women, but for all of us to balance the masculine and feminine within us to become whole.

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• Visual/Digital Revolution (since 1815) - The advent of photography, motion pictures, radio, TV, computers, digital technology, digital currencies, and artificial intelligence have led to developing the feminine right brain more leading us to greater brain wholeness. This is creating individual egalitarianism (partnership within us between our masculine and feminine), as well as information equality for all.

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• Mother Earth/Environmentalism (since 1962) - Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" in 1962 birthed the environmental movement leading us to champion Mother Earth, challenging excessive chemical use, consumerism, and fighting climate change.

 

America's Historical Egalitarian Forces Transforming Its Patriarchy

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• Native American Spirituality (since before 1492) - Teaching and living the sacredness of all life, 'we are all related' and being and living in harmony with "Mother Earth" is deeply embedded American soil and in the subconscious of all who have lived here whether they know it or not.  America's "Original Sins" start with the Native American genocide of Native Americans and the stealing of their lands and resources.  But, it is the thinking or mindset behind these acts that are the greatest sin: White Supremacy/White Superiority.  The root of all evil is superiority thinking.  This applies here and to the next trend of Black Equality.

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• Black Equality (since 1656) - Elizabeth Key became the first woman of African descent to sue in court and win her freedom, and her son, John's freedom from slavery in 1656, based on inheriting her father's status as a white Virginia planter named Thomas Key and that she had been baptized a Christian.  Those two points complied with British law.  So the white slave owners had to change those points of law.  In 1662 Virginia legislators passed a law stating that the condition of the mother, not the father, determined the status of the child. Slavery was now inheritable.  In 1667 the Virginia General Assembly passed a law declaring that "baptism does not alter the condition of the person as to his bondage or freedom" nor does being a practicing Christian.  Then in 1691 Virginia prohibited interracial marriage, which was not overturned until Loving v. Virginia in 1967.   Black Americans have been achieving greater rights, but not full equality yet.  Slavery has often been called "America' Original Sin," but it is a twin sin to Native American genocide. Again, the real sin is White Supremacy/White Superiority.  The root of all evil is superiority thinking.

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• America's Changing Faces (since 1965) - The passage of the 1965 Immigration Act opened America's doors to African, Latin American and Asian immigrants, which has profoundly changed the demographics and diversity of America to where White Americans will be a minority by 2045.  Gay rights, gay marriage, LGBTQ rights, interracial marriage and relationships, and ethnically ambiguous children are forever changing what Americans look like.  This trend is causing great White anxiety and fear among many White Americans.

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• America's Millennials & Gen Zers (since 1981) - The values of these generations are profoundly more inclusive, tolerant diverse, idealistic, connected, respectful of elders, spiritual, and less religious than previous American generations. They are older souls and changing America's collective soul age.