Society’s Use of the Male Body
Many very respected social psychologists and sociologists, including two of the most influential writers on Men’s Issues, Dr. Warren Farrell (The Myth of Male Power) [excerpts here] and Dr. Roy F. Baumeister (Is There Anything Good About Men?), [speech version transcript here] have observed that society uses the male body as a disposable tool in order to perpetuate itself.
The idea essentially holds that human beings don’t just work for their own benefit: we work of the benefit of the social group in which we exist. We are as invested in seeing our brothers and sisters, our children, our cousins, and our nieces and nephews succeed as we are interested in our own success. This is not just a genetic drive to perpetuate ourselves (although that is part of it), but it is also connected to our innate need to belong and be a part of a group. A lone human being simply cannot survive – we need our families and our peers in order to divide our labour and get all the resources we need. We also need the mental stimulation of companionship to give us motivations to engage in life.
As we bond with others, we gain the motive to help people other than our relatives survive because we become emotionally invested in them as friends and lovers, or we become invested in the institutions those people create, like cooperatives, businesses, and religions.
All these humans interacting together form a highly complex system – Society – that sustains the well-being of every human being participating in it. Society is innately more important than individual people making it up: you can lose multiple people and Society will still remain intact. In fact. In fact when societies clash over resources, it is the Society whose people are willing to make the greatest sacrifices, individually and as a group, that usually prevails.
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