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just to play devil's advocate here, what if legba's words were gender-inverted?
who circumscribes abstract nouns like nation states and planets/satellites with gendered terms, anyway? why is one thing female, another male?? (surely not just 'cause a human female or a male did something??)
anyway, it'd look a little like this:
America has an erotic fear of men.
The colonisation of the American Continent represents the first attempts at sexual control over an untouched woman by Mother Europe.
Later, the desire to break away from Europe represents hatred and fear of the parent and the desire to have the man, the American Continent, for one’s self.
The constitution represents the rules that the female creates around her to give legitimacy to what she does; as she has learnt, she must work to rules, or the mother will admonish her.
The advance on the wild west represents the honeymoon night; having gained legitimacy of action through the creation of the new country, which represents marriage, or legitimisation of femininity, the female acts out her desires in full.
The forcing of native tribes onto reservations represents the desire of the autistic*/paranoaic female to quantify, number and collate everything she sees, to take "the Other" (manhood) and make it fit into what she already knows to marry the man, to make him no longer the alien "man", but the intimately known "father" or "husband", no longer a native civilisation but a native savagery.
The isolationist policies of the first world war represent the female refusing to believe that there can be anything wrong in the "holy union" between it's mother and father which it takes for granted; if there is, it is easier for the autistic female to turn away and ignore than to emote and deal with the problem.
The fear of manhood comes to a head in the modern era. America defeats it's rival to the west, Japan, with which it once shared the status of "other than Europe", i.e. America and Japan were once both "uncharted territories" for the European Mother. Now Brother Japan must be totally eviscerated by the atomic bomb as it has become "other" to America, a reminder to America that once it too was "the other", or male.
America defeats one rival to the east, Germany, yet because of the female's paranoic fear experienced by the female, it feels that it must assimilate it's dead rival: so it evacuates top scientists for itself (e.g. Werner Von Braun), regardless of their moral repugnancy (Von Braun was an SS member), because the female believes it is better to own a trophy of the defeated female rival than let a third rival (the USSR) destroy the carcass.
Nazis rescued by America go on to form the CIA and the Space Program.
As an intelligence agency, the CIA represents the paranoia of the female
state. It must know everything about it's rival whilst simultaneously
regarding it as evil and untouchable, as an adolescent girl wishes to know what his sister has done with boys but will never ask, except in competition.
The Space Program, NASA, represents an attempt to affirm femininity
against the rival's Sputnik. As religion decays, a new monument is raised: the space rocket, a monolithic structure, as the cross has dropped it's bar and figure, a furthering of christian imagery to it's extremes. [i don't really see this - a phallus is not a cross, therefore, no longer a christian symbol??] When the rocket is launched to the moon, it represents a double victory: a victory over the rival, the USSR, and a victory by penetration of the moon, the greatest "other", which has for centuries been worshipped as a God.
The pictures are beamed back: America proves that the God is barren, lifeless. The victory is not in getting there but in having got there and proving that the other is powerless. The only thing in his body worth celebrating is the American flag poking into his flesh.
In popular culture, Rock 'n' Roll erupts with swinging hips and phallic guitars [??]. At first it is a form of hymnal to the American Mother, but as it progresses, it will sometimes strive to break away from, and be attacked by, the American Mother, as creation is seen as inherently male by the American Mother, which attacks it's semi©girlchild like a king or lion.
"Western", or "Cowboy", films represent a crystallisation, or recording, of the Female's conquests over "the other", to provide security, as the neurotic female will masturbate over mental images of sexual encounters.
Science Fiction films at first continue in this vein, by trying to extrapolate the Female's assault on the moon by portraying eggs of the female, astronauts, going off to conquer "the other" that is Space.
However, there is an unconscious realisation that Space is too vast to conquer in this way, which leads to the encroachment of paranoia represented by alien monsters.
These aliens come in flying saucers: a spacecraft totally unlike the security-giving phallus of the Appollo craft. These flying saucers usually contain weaponry hidden away in a compartment at the base of a curved body; the male form. They squat over the American female (the White House with it's erect Stupa) and unleash devastation by unknowably mysterious and powerful forces that the Female is not evolved enough to understand.
Compare this to Japan's Godzilla, where the monster is an enormous (male) monster that wreaks devastation on humanity (a coded reference to the atomic bomb), or to Britain's Daleks, ridiculous yet terrifying mechanical creatures, totally unempathetic monsters laden with phalluses. [i left this alone]
As the millennium arrives, the American female flexes it's muscles one last time, seeing rivals dotted across the surface of the globe and even inside itself: ignoring the wishes of the mother that it created to give itself legitimacy, the UN security council, it goes in search of both traditional rivals, as in, defined countries, such as Iraq, Syria, Iran, China, but now also abstract concepts: terrorism, evolution, subversion: forces for change that threaten it.
this also seems an equally fair enough - at least basically internally consistent - account of matters, so which one do we give any creedence to? |
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