One of the things that culture brings about is the idea that without its guiding filters we would be like beasts in the forest, savage, uncivilized, murderous, etc.  Now the truth of the matter is culture is what makes us savage, vicious, murderous, war after war after war because of the restrictions and restraints of culture.  Gil Bailey and Rene Gerard, the great French Philosophers, was quite right with that. Culture survives on by periodic warfare. I quote you the august Thomas Jefferson saying “The tree of liberty must be periodically watered by the blood of tyrants and patriots.”  And that is that the perfect picture of culture. The other thing is the conviction that the child must learn to mind or they simply won’t survive.  And in the process of learning to mind they really lose their great survival instincts and turn them over to culture.  In both James Neal, a magnificent book of his on Zen and the brain, he’s a Neural Scientist, both he and Alan Shore in his incredible work had the little statement just popping up almost out of context, “Will we survive the current situation?”  And both Neal and Shore, who never heard of each other in all probability, knew nothing of each others work, said “Only if we can produce males capable of nurturing their offspring”.  So we find things then happening like people pulling their boys out of Waldorf School because they’re afraid it will make a pampering softy out of them.  No, it would make a nurturing intelligence out of them. But as the father said to me about pulling his child out of Waldorf, it’s a jungle out there and we’ve got to toughen him up to survive that jungle.  With that idea in mind we have a radically different behavior with boy babies from birth on then we do girl babies.  Ashley Montague, one of our greatest Biologists said girls were far, far more viable and successful survivors than boys.  And we know that’s the truth.  We don’t need to go into all that.  And yet we think we have to, we treat boys much more stringently than we do our girls.  We pamper them, put ribbons on them, but the boys have to get out and, with the assumption that they have to do that to survive saber tooth.   But evolution has created a neural structure and heart connection here not to out-wrestle saber tooth, which is what the great big hulking physique and all this is so terribly rampant today, to out-wrestle saber tooth nature created a neural brain mind heart system by which we can simply outwit saber tooth’s.   But we sacrifice that capacity of using the higher intelligences to survive on behalf of this brute strength idea which makes awfully good soldiers and so on an so forth, but it makes a very poor evolutionary example.  So again I think of Shore an Neal themselves, until we produce males that can nurture their own offspring, the only way to do that is to nurture the male themselves from the beginning as Michael Mendizza has said many a time with his nurturing projects.  So there you have a serious threat to culture in the nurturing project.  We wonder why this nurturing project gets grounded time and again and here we think it’s taking wings and it’s going to fly, but this again is that cultural backlash.  The nurturing process of creating males who are fully nurtured therefore they were capable of nurturing takes our whole image of the male from Hollywood to Madison Avenue and all of their advertising.  And it’s true throughout other countries as well.  The macho male who must protect us, etc., at the expense of the only survival procedures we have which is the higher intelligences.