What becomes of the masculine when it loses its bearings and its meaning?

Promoting Humanity Series 4/6

What becomes of the masculine when it loses its bearings and its meaning?

1. The link between humanity’s lack of love and individual suffering

When a society disconnects from its own living essence, its sensitivity, and its humanity, this disconnection shows up in the bodies, emotions, and orientation of individuals.This collective lack of love for the human becomes a lack of love for oneself. It particularly affects those whose identity has long been built around clear, valued, and recognized roles.

2. The technological imaginary as a rejection of the living

A significant part of the modern technological imaginary is shaped by a wounded masculine psyche, driven by the desire for a world that is predictable, controllable, and free from vulnerability. A world in which one could create and act without being touched by instability, emotion, or affective dependence.This technicized vision of reality is already a distancing from the living, an attempt to extract oneself from everything that cannot be mastered.

3. Technological escape as a refuge from the feminine

This flight toward machines intensifies the inner emptiness that many feel.Technology becomes a reassuring refuge from what the feminine symbolizes: fluctuation, sensitivity, interdependence, the organic nature of the world. By taking shelter behind the machine, some avoid confronting these dimensions. They remain locked in their fears and develop increasing mistrust toward what lives, moves, and refuses to be confined within rules.

4. An amplification of the wounded masculine

Paradoxically, the technological race, far from being neutral, reinforces this wounded masculine instead of soothing it. It extends an old movement that prefers control over relationship, optimization over encounter, efficiency over sensitivity.The ultra-technological system being built today isolates even more, distances us from the living, and offers a constant escape from vulnerability.It especially traps men in a version of themselves that no longer connects to their real needs.

5. A forced masculinization of women

In this context, women too are drawn into this movement. To survive, be recognized, or simply exist in a world that values the logic of control over the logic of relationship, they must adopt attributes historically associated with the masculine: structure, performance, radical autonomy, emotional detachment.This adaptation creates a paradox: the more society uproots itself from the living, the more women are pushed to move away from what once defined their nurturing, sensitive, regenerative role.They must harden themselves to exist within a framework that no longer recognizes the value of the feminine, neither in men nor in themselves.Thus, the ultra-masculinization of the world ends up marginalizing the feminine in all its forms, depriving society as a whole of its regenerative forces.

Conclusion

This situation is not a conflict between genders but a rupture from the living. By fleeing vulnerability, the world deprives itself of its forces of connection and regeneration. Finding balance requires restoring the living, sensitive, and feminine dimension within each of us, to reinvent more human and more conscious ways of being present.