The Feminine Society
from cybele to demeter – the restoration of balance in a world of chaos
The Feminine Society: From Cybele to Demeter – Restoring Balance in a World of Chaos and Carnality
In our previous blog post, we explored the decline of the American Right, the rise of nihilism, and the corrosion of traditional values that once sustained the West. Now, we delve deeper into the cultural underpinnings of what we’ve called the Feminine Society—a world where chaos, unchecked individualism, and the unmooring of collective identity are celebrated in the name of freedom. In this Feminine Society, we see a seismic shift toward the carnal as a model of liberation, where the profane is elevated to the level of empowerment. But this freedom is illusory, and in many ways, it represents the deepest flaws of Liberalism and its obsession with individualism at the expense of the collective good.
This theme is explored by contemporary philosopher Byung-Chul Han, whose works critique the modern obsession with hyper-individualism, performance, and the decline of communal values. Han argues that today’s society is trapped in a cycle of self-exploitation, where individuals, believing themselves to be liberated, are in fact trapped in a system that encourages them to constantly perform their identities and desires for public consumption.
The Prominence of OnlyFans and the Profanation of Carnality
One of the most striking symbols of the Feminine Society is the rise of platforms like OnlyFans, where sexuality—once considered sacred or, at the very least, deeply personal—has become a commodity for public consumption. Sexuality, in this context, no longer finds its power in the sacred but in the profane. The act of sex, once tied to creation, union, and deeper metaphysical significance, is now reduced to a transactional spectacle where carnal desire is seen as both the means and the end.
Byung-Chul Han, in his work The Agony of Eros, critiques the way modern society has turned love, sexuality, and even intimacy into commodities to be bought and sold. He argues that this hyper-commodification has stripped Eros—the driving force of connection—of its depth, turning it into a superficial exchange between atomized individuals. In this sense, OnlyFans and other forms of digital promiscuity represent the ultimate expression of a society where everything is for sale, and where the sacredness of the body is lost in the pursuit of likes, subscriptions, and validation.
In the Feminine Society, the power of sex comes not from its life-creating potential or its unifying nature between two individuals, but from its publicity, its commodification. The rise of OnlyFans—where individuals sell intimate access to their bodies—has become a symbol of how far we have strayed from the sacred and toward a profane liberation. The power these content creators wield does not lie in their embodiment of any deeper truth, but in their ability to exploit the basest desires of society. It is Carnality as Freedom, not in the empowering sense of taking control over one’s body, but in the hollow sense of reducing one’s body to a marketable asset.
This rise of promiscuity and the public glorification of the carnal is symptomatic of the broader Feminine Chaos. In an era that celebrates hyper-individualism, the sacredness of sex as an act between partners or as a means of creation has been replaced by sex as a spectacle—a transaction that erases intimacy in favor of immediate gratification.
Transgenderism and the Annexation of Carnal Desires
The annexation of carnal desires into the broader cultural discourse on identity is further reflected in the rise of transgenderism, where the lines between masculine and feminine, body and mind, are blurred in the name of individual liberation. While the transgender movement purports to offer freedom through self-identification, it also represents the annexation of carnal desires into a model of identity politics. Han, in Psychopolitics, explores how contemporary society’s focus on self-reinvention and perpetual transformation has led to an endless cycle of identity performance—a mode of being where one is constantly redefining themselves to fit new social, political, and sexual norms.
This movement, much like the rise of OnlyFans, reflects the Feminine Society’s obsession with carnality as a form of self-expression. The body is no longer seen as sacred but as malleable, something to be transformed at will in service of individual desires. Han would argue that this focus on the self as a project—to be constantly modified, perfected, and performed—reflects the internalization of neoliberal pressures. This emphasis on performing desire, whether through sexuality, gender, or other identity markers, has transformed the individual into a product of the same system that claims to liberate them.
This shift from sacred embodiment to profaned individualism has profound consequences for society’s understanding of sex, gender, and the body itself. The body becomes a battlefield for cultural performance, an expression of an ill-defined freedom that ultimately serves to disconnect individuals from any shared meaning or collective identity.
The Trap of Liberalism: Individualism as a Coping Mechanism
In this context, Liberalism reveals its inherent contradictions. By elevating individualism as the highest ideal, it gives rise to a society where people are increasingly isolated from one another, yet believe they are expressing true freedom. Han describes this as a form of self-exploitation—the individual becomes both the exploiter and the exploited, believing that they are acting freely while actually perpetuating the very system that oppresses them.
The hyper-individualism championed by Liberalism is nothing more than a cope, a justification for the self-destructive behaviors it promotes. It tells individuals that they are free to do as they please, but in reality, it reduces them to cogs in a larger machine, their actions devoid of deeper meaning or consequence. As Julius Evola and Alexander Dugin critique, Liberalism fosters the illusion of autonomy while severing individuals from any transcendent values or collective purpose. This atomized existence leads to nihilism, where the pursuit of pleasure is seen as the highest good, and moral relativism reigns.
By divorcing the individual from the collective, Liberalism creates a society where actions, no matter how self-indulgent, are justified as personal freedom. However, this freedom is illusory, as it ignores the ripple effects that personal actions have on the broader social fabric. Han’s work, especially in The Burnout Society, examines how this cult of individualism leads to exhaustion and alienation, as individuals constantly seek validation and performative success in a world that ultimately leaves them empty.
From Cybele to Demeter: The Restoration of the Sacred
In ancient myth, the goddess Cybele was associated with wild, untamed nature, representing the chaotic feminine in all its destructive glory. But Cybele was also a figure of madness—a goddess whose power, when left unchecked, could tear apart the very fabric of society. In many ways, our modern world reflects this unchecked Feminine Chaos, where carnality has replaced the sacred and freedom of expression has become synonymous with profanity.
The solution, as both Evola and Han would suggest, is not to return to a purely patriarchal order, represented by the Apollonian ideals of Heavenly Father and strict hierarchy, but to transform the chaotic feminine into something more grounded—something that can sustain both society and the individual. This is where the goddess Demeter comes into play. Unlike Cybele, Demeter is the Earth Mother, a goddess of agriculture, fertility, and nurture. She represents a more balanced feminine principle, one that is grounded in the cycles of nature and sustains life rather than consuming it.
We must save the Feminine from Hell, from the depths of nihilistic chaos, and return it to Earth—to re-root it in the sacred, where sex, identity, and the body are not commodities but expressions of divine purpose. The hermaphrodite, as discussed in ancient philosophy, represents the ultimate synthesis of Masculine and Feminine, an integration of the best of both worlds. It is not about domination but about balance—the creation of a society where the sacred and the profane are in harmony.
Reclaiming the Sacred in the Feminine Society
Byung-Chul Han argues that in today’s society, where everything has been commodified and subject to performance, there is a profound loss of meaning. The sacred has been replaced by the profane in the name of freedom. Our challenge is to restore balance, to transform the chaotic feminine energy that currently dominates into something more grounded and nurturing, without falling into the trap of authoritarian patriarchy.
Through the integration of the Masculine and Feminine, represented by the hermaphrodite, we can create a new society that is rooted in both order and chaos, in the sacred and profane. Only through this unity can we escape the nihilism that has overtaken the West and create a future where individuals are truly free, not merely performing their desires in a hollow pursuit of validation.
By grounding ourselves in this balance, as Evola, Dugin, and Han suggest, we can reclaim the sacred and move beyond the superficial freedoms of Liberalism, creating a society that transcends the current Feminine Chaos and leads toward a more balanced, hermaphroditic future.