Summary

Feminism (matriarchy) and masculinism (patriarchy) provide crippled concepts. The functional unite of man is the couple due to biological, cultural, and religious reasons. “God created man in his own image, to man and woman he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Equalism provides the complete concept, a tool to interpret and balance the interaction between man and woman, couples and corporations.

The concept of equalism 

The concept of “equalism” is not new. Equalism acknowledges the democratic and human rights of women and men, believers and non-believers, independent of race, religion, ethnicity, or “hybrid” state; most of us are “bastards” by blood. 

The term from the animal kingdom has a rude stench in English. Thus, it has become a fashion to use the corresponding term from the vegetable kingdom, “hybrid”, a prudent bow to our bias. From a humane medical point of view, a balanced gene portfolio is usually desirable instead of the labile products of lineage breeding (cf 4).

Equalism does not deny the dispersion of individual abilities. In every group of humans, there are individual differences in strength of muscles, shrewdness of mind, sharpness of eyes. However, equalism argues for equal legal rights, social rights, and civil rights for each individual. The aim of the present essay is to trace the roots of equalism in the central traditions of the descendants of Abraham (cf 5). The findings have bearing on the interpretation of democracy and human rights (6).

The wife of Potiphar

The wife of Potiphar (Genesis 39) has earned a place in the history of psychology as a model of a hard gamester (7). She created the last mistake reported in the career of Joseph, an immigrant from Canaan with a spectacular administrative achievement in Egypt. In this context, word stood against word. Potiphar accepted the version of his wife; his reasons for the choice are obscure. He appears to have believed Joseph, who otherwise probably had been slain, and promoted him to prison, in function prison warden. It is possible to interpret the handling as a warning shot through the head of his wife. “No more histories of this kind, darling!”

The problems of Tamar

Interspersed in the career of Joseph, there is a chapter on the problems of a childless widow (Genesis 38). She was thwarted thrice in her human rights. Finally, her father-in-law was able to solve her problems, aided by her shrewd assistance. The Church has consequently not commented the episode. However, it is prudent to conclude that the solution of Tamar´s problem favoured Tamar, Judah, and mankind in general.

Big business in Jericho

When the Israeli moved into the Promised Land, a woman named Rahab had a key role (Joshua 2-6). She lived in Jericho and her profession is usually described as harlot or prostitute. An alternative translation might be inn-keeper, since these professions often live in symbiosis. It is evident from the story that Rahab was the decision-maker of the house. Whatever her occupation had been, she was a survivor with descendants after the crisis (Matt 1:5). 

Complications of couple concept

The biological basis of the couple concept of man is the long rearing of the human child (8). Under ideal conditions, the couple is balanced, complementary, and stable. In practice, there is a scatter of more or less functional couples. From an evolutionary point of view, some instability may have a survival value. When one parent leaves due to death or delusion, the family is sometimes able to re-constitute and guarantee the survival of the children.

One book of the Bible is devoted to crippled couples (Hosea), two to individual women (Ruth, Esther), the rest to all mankind. All sorts of complications are listed (cf 2 Samuel 11-12). However, one sex is not better, nor worse, than the other. Thus, Paul concludes that man and woman provide a biological, psychological, and religious entity (Gal 3:28, 1 Cor 6:16), although some gender differences are suggested (1 Cor 11:3).

Practical conclusions 

The concept of equalism has practical consequences for individuals and societies. One of the first steps in order to create equalism in sports is to abolish the discrimination between male sports and female sports. Only in a sex-mixed sport, the women may obtain as high a fee/performance ratio as the males. Furthermore, it is desirable that new sports are created, in which males and females are included in approximately equal ratios due to natural selection based on talent and skill.

In a post-industrial society, the children have to be protected from the uneven quality of parents. The couples are not equal as “good parents”; there is the usual socio-biological dispersion. In order to promote an equal start in life, day-care centres for the children aged 1-6 years have been introduced in Sweden. By and large, this institution has proved a success just as the health care system of Sweden (9).

It is suggested that all occupations are evaluated by productivity and environment adaptation without racial bias (6). There will always be a tension between different production lines, for “all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians” (Genesis 46:34).

My working hypothesis is that nations are based on business and management, since “there is a material basis to every ideology”. A corollary of this idea is that a nation based on race or language will sooner or later clash with democracy and human rights within own borders or outside own borders (cf 5,6).

It is desirable to support existing states and counteract the formation of new states such as Sapni in the Nordic countries, Basque in Spain and France, Kosovo in Serbia. The formation of new states is associated with violence, new injustices, new dictators. 

It is suggested that it is better to promote the evolution of democracy and human rights by bereaving substandard states of their seats in the Security Council and other councils and committees of the United Nations. Such a step would increase the interest for democracy and human rights in the upper classes of substandard states (cf 10).

Bo Norberg

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