Elaboration on Patriarchy

To repeat, patriarchy contains at its base a universal human need to inundate one's community with abundance and security, and to be appreciated for it in turn. This is the human kernel that produces a continuity, a desire to mimic in would-be patriarchs.

For most, fulfillment of this universal need is stolen away by those with the resources and socially-sanctioned opportunity to pull away and fulfill it at a greater scale and magnitude.

Patriarchy, as a response to and progenitor of historical violence and catastrophe, is a warping of this natural tendency, like a fist punching through the living fabric, forcing everyone into a mountain-valley relation, as opposed to a level one.

And this warping encourages reactions to it, reproducing mirror images of it, which in turn form new warpings, like rolling waves. One can only attempt to buttress the living fabric against this warping, holding sway against a churning ocean.