Scene from the Apocalypse (1829)
Francis Danby (1793-1861)

Imagine you are standing under a vast dark sky and the stars above you have been swallowed up by a whirlwind of cosmic forces. Francis Danby's painting "Scene from the Apocalypse" will transport you to a world on the brink of collapse.

The painting captures the moment when the giant angel described in the biblical book of Revelation descends from heaven. The angel is not just a figure in the distance, he towers over the scene, his feet like pillars of fire, his head crowned with a rainbow, shrouded in clouds. Does this sight inspire awe or fear? It makes you question the power of divine intervention.

"Valkyrie Watch," 1906.

Edward Robert Hughes

From the communist chronicles, more robbery and famine: "The New York Times states that under the pretext of collecting funds for the Russian famine sufferers, sympathisers with the Bolsheviks in the United States are being gathered into a vast nationwide organisation, to which senators, governors, bishops, and prominent officials have unintentionally lent their names... A semi-official message from the Soviet states that through hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised very little has been sent to Russia."

"Bolsheviks in the USA: Famine Relief Appeal." Warwick Daily News. 11 Feb 1922.

"Autumn. Bridge in the Park", 1900s

Velts Ivan Augustovich (1866-1926)

"Sunset", 1881.

- Arseny Meshchersky
(1834-1902)

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The missing ingredient in today’s society is not traumatic intergenerational abuse, but rather the attention and mentorship from older men and quality time in their presence. This is the axis of the transformational process for young boys.
The community of men that would usually be present and responsible for managing these essential and laborious processes are now entirely consumed and occupied with the struggle for their lot in economic life.

A child harbours a hardwired yearning to emulate role models. They take cues from their environment on how to assimilate into the tribe so they may gain all the crucial benefits of being accepted and supported by them.
But without men actively present in their lives, boys chiefly learn how to assimilate into the tribe of women – to their value systems and modes of relating. They also learn to rely solely on women to meet their essential, subtler needs for intimacy and acceptance. This is a key origin of enmeshment.
And except for the rare few that participate in something like a martial art, young boys aren’t encouraged or taught how to manage their testosterone-driven tendencies, which you don’t have to look any further than a playground to see at work. Wrestling, rough and tumble play, dominance hierarchies, competition and aggression are uniquely characteristic of the way boys play with each other.
Instead of receiving embodied wisdom and guidance on integrating and taming these qualities, boys tend to learn to repress these impulses and behaviours, without being provided healthy outlets for them.

https://arkabrotherhood.com/blog/second-womb-absence-male-initiation/

One idea is that, generally, through the home and public education system, women became the sole guiding and mentoring forces in the lives of young boys in the 20th century, which is a contributing factor to what has been called the “feminization” of modern men.

IF men have toxic masculinity, who is to blame???
Who is educating them???

The Crypteia (Greek: κρυπτεία krupteía from κρυπτός kruptós, "hidden, secret"; members were κρύπται kryptai), was an ancient Spartan state institution. The kryptai either principally sought out and killed helots across Laconia and Messenia as part of a policy of terrorising and intimidating the enslaved population, or they principally did a form of military training, or they principally endured hardships as an initiation ordeal, or the Crypteia served a combination of all these purposes, possibly varying over time. The Krypteia was an element of the Spartan state's child-rearing system for upper-class males.

Teaching “Perfect Womanhood”: A brief History on the Education of Girls - Frontenac County Schools Museum
https://www.fcsmuseum.com/teaching-perfect-womanhood-a-brief-history-on-the-education-of-girls/