 Are there any societies where there is no right of passage, where men remain in that state of dependency on the mother, where they stay animals? Well, we have not many sociological metriarchies, but I read once a book about the South American Indian tribe where there was actually sociological, not religious, but sociological metriarchy, and there the women were happy, fat, whores, ordering the men about, and the men were lean, submissive, nervous creatures who were planting the fields and doing the work for the women, kind of porters figures. And positively wealth, the world of the drives, sexuality, earthly happiness was blossoming, and negatively there was no spirit whatsoever. A world of total stupidity, so to speak, of only living, living very agreeably, but not thinking or having any ideas or spiritual realizations at all. And the men, accordingly, unhappy and submissive and rather poor creatures. But generally these things balance back and forth. There will be another generation of men who will in male protest again put the things into a middle position or try to put the things in a middle position. The ideal seems to be not that either the men dominate or the women dominate, but that there is a kind of equal relationship, a balance of opposites.