A baby is a creature composed of endless needs. Ideally, a man provides a loving environment that protects and nourishes everyone under their care; defending the perimeter from predators; networking within the community to assure the flow of resources needed to feed the family; a guide to strengthen the character of the adolescents that eventually emerge as the babies continue their development. Babies are a bundle of needs that are totally dependent on their caregivers, and two united caregivers assure a greater likelihood of physically, emotionally, and intellectually healthy children, adolescents, and young adults.
The imaginative function, complementary to reason, is neglected and not properly trained in modern Western civilization, which has opted for reason as the only tool to apprehend reality. What Henri Corbin called the imaginal realm, where meaning is apprehended, has been lost and forgotten and now mostly manifests as “symptoms.” There is no perception without imagination but it has been narrowed down to what William Blake calls the “the abyss of the five senses, where a flat-sided steep frowns over the present world.” I don’t quite buy Cameron’s argument as he was uneducated in the ancient wisdom tradition Blake refers to in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. I would recommend that he read Kathleen Raine’s book, Blake and Tradition.
@elonmusk At age 14 in 1968 when my high school principal held memorial services in the gymnasium with men in dress uniform eulogizing my 19-year-old friends in closed caskets who had been drafted and killed in Vietnam. The trance was deep, total, and remains unbroken to this day.