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History is not linear. It is cyclical. Niccoló Machiavelli said it best:
Virtue gives birth to tranquility, tranquility to leisure, leisure to disorder, disorder to ruin…similarly, from ruin, order is born, from order virtue, from virtue, glory and good fortune.
We are in disorder right now. A part of this disorder are the wars, invasions, aka, mass migrations, an out of touch ruling class, smash and grab robberies, and, drum roll, eunuchs.
You read that correctly. Eunuchs. Males that have been castrated.
As a child, I read Will James’ book, Smoky. James was a real cowboy back in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote, and illustrated, about the life he lived. As a cowpoke, he knew how to castrate horses and cattle. In the world of livestock, only the best males were allowed to reproduce. Every rancher had a breeding program, because they were raising and selling a food source. Having a breeding bull not only controls the results, it keeps the chaos down. In nature, when a female comes in heat, every male of her species wants to get at her.
Ranchers do not like disorder. They understand that if disorder, or chaos, is given a toe hold, it will grow.
Most human males have learned to control themselves. However, there was a time when the leaders of the various human tribes and nations, did not trust the males of his government to keep their hands off the leader’s women, and their kingdom or empire. A man full of testosterone who is also a strong personality can overthrow the very monarch he works for.
When humans learned the connection between testosterone and aggression, and that that hormone, and the aggression that came along with it, were located in a man’s gonads, is probably something we will never know. It’s not like we can put a date on it. But sometime, about 4000 years back, the Chinese leaders began sterilizing those who would work for them. Bureaucrats and generals could be relieved of their balls, and sometimes their penis as well. Performing what was called a “clean sweep” (everything comes off) assured the king, caliph, sultan or emperor, that the men he surrounded himself with could not sleep with his wives, or soldiers. Or make trouble for the king on down the road. The wise monarch watches out for the charismatic general. As Shakespeare said, “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
Eunuchs would stay focused on other things. Like serving their king. Having a eunuch who aspired to be the top dog among the others, served his monarch well.
In places that practice polygamy, eunuchs guard the harem. Indeed, that is how that word, eunuch, came down to us. Through the Greeks, from the time of Alexander the Great. Invading Persia was quite the education for those Greek soldiers. The Greek word, eunoukhos, means “bedroom guard.”
Why men became eunuchs is more complex. Some chose it voluntarily. It was a career move. Men back then, are like men now. Men who will not marry or have children by choice have a mind set that leads them to vasectomies at a young age. Such men can focus on their own lives, and their boss’ business.Or their own business. They don’t need to get home on time, because no one is waiting for them. True, some men that are fathers, not wanting any more children, will get a vasectomy. But in case of a disaster, like his children dying, this procedure can be reversed. Not so with castration.
Other men were castrated by force. Enemies taken prisoner, pretty boys sold into slavery, the boys and sons of a king’s enemy, and so on. It was a horrible operation, back in the days when no anesthesia was available. Many men receiving the clean sweep died.
Not fun, any of it, whether voluntary or forced. But man’s inhumanity to his fellows is legendary.
China seems to have been the forerunner of employing eunuchs as advisors, bureaucrats and harem guards. It spread throughout the Middle East, and into Europe through Rome. The Israelites did not have eunuchs as it was forbidden. Technically, it was forbidden in Christianity as well. But Christians, like many Abrahamic proscriptions, found a way around it. Sex was sin, and so a few of the early church guys had themselves castrated so they would stop thinking about sex. Plus, the Christians who ran the Byzantium end of the Roman Empire, had eunuchs aplenty. Then along came the Muslims, which also adopted the policy of no castration. But who will guard their harems? Any guy who was not a Muslim was fair game. Which meant their enemies could be castrated. Or, slaves from Africa. Indeed, it is suggested that the slavery trade out of Africa began with the search for men and boys to become eunuchs.
More horror inflicted on humans by other humans. We are good at it.
The pretty boys that were sold by their impoverished parents to slave dealers, knew their boys would probably be castrated. Those boys could end up as entertainers and sex slaves. Same sex activities among the ruling classes rid them of the problem of pregnancies. Because pretty little girls were also sold for the same reasons. In the brothels throughout the world, virgins were prized because the first night would be sold to the highest bidder. But the boys grew up to be adult males with hairless features and high pitched voices. They learned to sing and play instruments. In later centuries, in Europe, such boys would become international stars in the theatre. From the beginning of theatre, women were not allowed to perform on stage. Yes, even those praised Greek philosophers were not in favor of women in public. Except in religious roles. So boys played women’s parts. In 16th century England, boys played women’s roles. In the golden age of the English theatre, boys went from women’s parts to men’s roles. A life in the theatre was just that; a lifetime from childhood to adulthood.
In Italy, women were also banished from the theatre. Italy was more musical, with the new art form, opera, shaped by composers like Monteverdi. Boys were castrated to keep their high voices. They sang the women’s parts. Many castrati became regulars in the opera, and a few became superstars. It was the church in the 19th century, that stopped the practice. Women returned to the stage, in Italy and England.
The eunuchs of that past were not transgenders. They dressed like men, and acted like men. To dress like a woman meant acting a woman’s role in the theatre, or being a sex worker. Otherwise, they were men. Like Zheng He of China, who was a general and an explorer working for his emperor during the Ming dynasty. In China, he was a hero, and a part of the ruling class.
Eunuchs were employed by China and the Ottomans up into the early 20th century. The last imperial eunuch of China died in 1996.
Do we still have eunuchs in 2024? Yes. In India there is a group of men that are called hijras. It is not quite known if all are castrated. There are about 6 million of them. It is not understood if the they suffer from sexual dysphoria, and are trans. But since they have been around for centuries, and participate in some Hindu celebrations, there are many reasons why the join the hijras.
The sexual disorders we seem to not have enough of, are a part of the general disorder we have with our society at large. We have, over the past century, focused a bit too much on sexual issues. From birth control, to abortions, to gay marriage, HIV, and STDs in general, plus the millions of singles sleeping around, rather than marrying, is it any wonder some folks get confused? Nature makes your body a certain way. If you deny it its natural due course, that messes with the inner life. We have cut ourselves off from nature, and now want to mess with it. Make nature do what we want to do. There’s a price that will be paid for that.
Eunuchs are males, historically, because the female’s reproductive system is mucho complex. You can remove the woman’s ovaries, or even remove her uterus, to make her sterile. But these are complex operations that have been available since the 20th century. Even the C section was a risky operation, with many mothers dying of botched jobs or infections afterwards. Besides, women do not rape, so there is no need to fear them in that way. Even the eunuchs are stronger than the average woman. Once women gave up their freedom for protection, their menfolk could put her to death for adultery. It would probably be a eunuch who would chop her head off.
So if eunuchs are males, does that mean that Rachel Levine (Biden’s Assistant Secretary of Health) is not a eunuch? We cannot know unless we are told that he had himself given the full sweep. And if given the full sweep, that would make him somewhat uninterested in sex as he has no more testosterone. Will the estrogen make him interested in sex? The way a female is? The sex drive is down when a female hits her menopausal years. My theory on why so many of these middle aged men are desirous of turning into a female, is because their sex drive is on the non existent side anyway. It is rather convenient to be an older woman, is it not? Levine, who is Jewish, goes against his religious laws if he has had himself fully castrated. But to live the life he wants, he must.
As for the younger males, it looks like many of them are using the trans thing as a career move, when they compete against real women. Just like the eunuchs of old did. Except these boys are not fully castrated. And the organizers of these events in women’s sports, let them get away with it. Because sexual confusion is used as a tool. Eunuchs in the past did not compete with women.
Look at the photo of the shah’s harem with the guards. It’s like a family photo. By 1883, those guards are more window dressing than anything else. They have no weapons on display. Perhaps it is the height of the two men in front that is enough to scare off any intruders.
Are the boys competing with women, doing it to replace them? Like the castrati of the past? Or is it that males, after 100 years of feminist activities, are in a payback mode. After all, women now out perform males in education, and they have made inroads into the board rooms by insisting they be allowed in. So perhaps these younger males get some sort of perverse pleasure when they beat a girl? That they can be better than the girls when it comes to the physical demands of sport.
I am waiting for the first trans man to play against the boys. Let’s see a trans man play hockey. What will those women do when the men get into one of their fist fights on the ice? Will it be a triumph for the DIE crowd when the women get the shit beat out of them?
It has been reported, by The Telegraph, that the Russians are castrating their Ukrainian prisoners. And, of course, they rape the women. That is an old war tactic, to frighten the population. And Hamas is guilty of their own atrocities of rape and murder. Israel seems to just kill people. In a way, it’s a cleaner approach. But that is the way the world of war works.
The transgender madness, is another indicator of our disordered world. People who say their lives are miserable because of their sexual organs might be better off as eunuchs. Including women who can now have their sexual organs removed safely. As Jesus said, if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off…
Next up on Machiavelli’s list is ruin. I’d like to skip over that part, and just start putting things in order again. That will be messy, to put order into our lives. The ruling class likes playing gods. They are more interested in themselves, than us. Like the Titans, they manipulate others. Well, that’s what narcissists and psychopaths do. Historically, and presently. But like those Titans, some other gods will come along to kick them off their thrones, to send them down to the center of the Earth. It’s hot down there. Never mind that. We will tip our hats to them, and say, “Frankly my dears, we don’t give a damn.”