The Baron Went Down to Georgia
He Was Looking for an Election to Steal
Capitulation may be the most insidious of all slothful indulgences. For some reason, it always looks expedient at the time. It’s often observable with women in relationships with insecure “Lord and Master” types of guys. The guy probably doesn’t notice that he’s overbearing and demanding because the woman capitulates to what he asks, whatever he asks or demands. To the woman, it probably looks like an issue not worth the effort it will require to get through the Lord and Master guy’s defenses. But sooner or later, she’s going to explode, and he’ll not have a clue as to WTF happened. It will honestly look like a birth control-induced event or maybe a discreet “her time.” But it is ever-so-likely that the actual culprit is the ticking time bomb we call capitulation.
A Rose and a Capitulation by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet
We have lots of other names for the behavior we call capitulation, too. Just get along. Be nice. We’ll agree to disagree. Don’t make waves. Don’t upset the apple cart. Don’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Anger management. Divorce. The list goes on and is quite extensive. It seems, however, that American women are beginning to understand the cost of capitulation. In Ohio, voters recently rejected an issue which would have allowed the Republicans to change the Ohioan constitution. They could slip an anti-abortion legislation into law and hold women in Ohio as, maybe, handmaidens to the state? With that kind of kinky fantasy running through their senatorial heads, you have to wonder what porn channel they subscribe to. Probably on the dark web somewhere. Whatever, eh? Anyway, women voted in Ohio and kind of cold-showered the fantasy-incensed control freaks for the moment, but they still sent the very clear message that they were not going to capitulate on this issue. There is no doubt that the fantasy lives to fight another day. “Could have just been they were all on birth control. You never know,” they all said.
Modern men are often still isolated to the point of having no clue to what seem to be obvious and universal clues to women. It’s as though modern men are still living in a longhouse until they’re of age to marry.
In the known history of mankind, it is rare that women have not capitulated to men. Longhouse-living men might reasonably take capitulation for agreement. “After all, women are sometimes shy about all manner of things,” might be something a man would say who has little to no connection to empathic honesty and, due to capitulation, no motivation to find such connections. This is precisely why capitulation is such an insidious emotional danger. Capitulation on any level must necessarily be misunderstood as though it is an agreed commitment to a course of action. It isn’t, of course, but by all appearances it surely seems to be until it is shown for what it is, often to the mind-numbing shock of both the capitulated and the capitulating.
Country music exists due to the shock that lovers experience when women have had enough and tell Earl goodbye. It’s pretty popular to consider Earl to be an overbearing dominance practitioner, but it could also be that that nearly every woman Earl knows from his mom to his girlfriend on the side, capitulate to his whims, insults, physical ‘pranks’, and disrespect as keeping the peace and exhorting other family members, “Don’t tell your Dad.” Even though there are times when the capitulating and the capitulated can live quasi-happily ever after, but mostly everything breaks down due to mettle fatigue. One or both parties just do not have it in them to continue down that infamous trail of tears.
It’s a Sad Story When Couples Suffer the Capitulation Fate, but What about Politicians?
There are legitimate dom/sub relationships the world over, but when either partner reaches their limit that session has to end. Sometimes sessions endure for years, other times for hours and everything in between. There has been an allure over the course of history for warlords and strong men to wage a form of violence over those whom they would subjugate. These violent incursions into convincing themselves that they have subjugated a population have never ended well. The authoritarian figure is always toppled from power when the subjugated no longer capitulate. We must not be capable of learning from history because we keep repeating this mistake as though it’s a genetic code issue. That can be the only rationale which will support the Republican Party’s capitulation to the Harkonnen Baron of Mar a Lardo.
Capitulation Is a Necessary Childhood Survival Skill, but It Is Like Kryptonite to the Memorable Legacy of a Life Well-Lived
It challenges rational thought to the point of brain failure just to consider why the entire Republican field of presidential candidates are all capitulating to Baron a Lardo with some barely memorable but required passive-aggressive hissing to note the required displeasure of a serious Presidential Contender. And they’re not the only Republicans whose capitulation caused the utter devaluation of their entire life’s expression. The Mayor’s loss of political capital from his melting press conference photo was worse than Dukakis’s career ending tank commandeering photo. Some Republican Senators have capitulated to the point that even sacrificial testicular tanning won’t be able to restore proper manhood. While the majority in congress are following the siren song of Barron de Lardo as though he were a pied piper and they are the children of the town, the town dissed the Baron until he lost his honor or something.
No one will be shocked if this dramatic capitulation episode does not end well. It’s understandable that kids who identify as right wing will eventually get tired of walking on the eggshells of being primaried by a loyal Harkonnen subject of Barron Lardo. At some point they’ll have to come out as blinded by capitulation due to disembodied Harkonnen fear or fascination for or of the spice of promised power for the low, low price of one’s soul; please note on clearance sale items there is no guitar duel. The guitar duel offer is only proffered to loyal customers who qualify for total ruination. Members of the Bar will be given priority status.
If this were not so nearly true, it would be just plainly silly. But that’s the nature of capitulation; it is not just something that women do to appease a guy. It’s something that we all do to appease the “feel goods about me myself”, that comes from being accepted from the “important one in my life.” Baron Lardo feeds that need in his devotees. Capitulation seems to be just a small price to pay for the love and attention of your Lord and Master. At least it does until you’re asked to make your bones to prove your loyalty to the Lord. The Lord and Master is always going to ask his capitulators to choose between the reality he wants to fund and the reality the population holds to be true. Habitual capitulation to the demands of an abusive partner can lead to the abused believing her behavior has brought about deserted punishment for the sin of non-capitulation.
In the political theater, a certain amount of seeming capitulation can result in bipartisan cooperation capable of great accomplishments. Abject capitulation to a fear monger just can not end well in the personal theater nor in the political theater. No one can deny the reality and pleasure the freedom to express personal energy brings to adults living memorable lives.
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