Jean-François Noubel argues that gender tensions reflect an evolutionary shift, not generational conflict. Humanity's 5,000-year cycle of hierarchical intelligence is reaching its limits and transitioning to distributed, holonic systems that require freeing people from traditional gender categories. He proposes modified languages like E-Prime and F-Prime to reshape how we think about gender across biological, hormonal, social, and spiritual dimensions.
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Do you think that this feminine and masculine challenge and struggle, is it a generational issue? You know, with on one hand you have baby boomers and Gen X that seems to be more struggling with it than millennium and Gen Z? What do you think?
I don't know if we have much of a generational thing, but I would say more like an evolutionary question here, and maybe it happens right in this time. Just, you know, putting back my hat as a researcher in collective intelligence, I noticed that, I mean, that this research field shows that we we start to end a 5,000-year cycle of pyramidal collective intelligence. The only way, it seems, human nature has found to build big collectives could only go through hierarchical, top-down, pyramidal structures. Nature has done that. I don't know if we could have done otherwise. I can't revisit the past, reinvent the past. It has worked this way, and that means through a very strong emphasis on the masculine values. It happened this way. If you have a pyramidal structure, that means centralized power, command and control structure, labor division, and a scarce currency, which means also scarcity philosophy built in every aspect of human fabric, from the way we language reality, from our social codes, from the philosophies of the world, and all those things. We start to, you know, this kind of collectives now have reached its limits. It has worked well since the invention of writing, the writing enabled that, and now it seems that it hits a wall of systemic complexity, and it opens the path to what we call holomidal, holomidal collective intelligence, holos, holistic, you know, distributed, which now requires people to step out, free themselves from this prison, this ontological jail of, you know, the gender roles, like either man or woman based on your genitals and all these things. So I find it fascinating to see how some cultures in the world try to reinvent the multi-dimensional space to integrate, to map the reality. Like, as a biological being, yes, you may have a penis or vagina, but hormonal level, you probably have a, you know, continuum between the two, and you have the right to stand in every, you know, level of this masculine and feminine side. And then also, what about your sexual preference? What about your social, you know, social persona? Who do you want to exist as, you know, with the others in the social field? And what also on more spiritual side. So we have a kind of multi-dimensional space where, you know, you can have a feminine body but a drive towards either the feminine, the masculine, or anything in between or outside of the box. And you may also want to appear as a non-gendered person or very masculine or very feminine or anything you may invent. So we need an ontology, we need a language to do that. And I feel, you It's really fascinating that it happens. So my research has shown how language plays a crucial role. Many other invisible architectures do as well, but language plays a crucial role. So as a French person and speaking a Latin language, we don't have the neutral thing. We have either a he or a she. A she for a table, and a she for a car, and a he for a fridge. Those kinds of things. So we live in a very, very binary world, and the English-speaking people have a neutral thing. So I think that language offers today more evolutionary capacities to invent a new repertoire of words, but not just, you know, the neutral thing. We also need to address the constructs, like how we describe the world. And I can share more maybe about that, like why do I speak, for instance, not exactly in English but in E prime, English prime, a derivative of English, or what I speak in French with F prime, a derivative of French, because I try to address, to hack the language that I can speak in order to build a different matrix inside myself and with others. What would you want to share, Marc, about that question?
