(If the world is without women)
I would say it would be quite an interesting thing to discuss if not imagine for we know the consequences of the later.
The world without women: (at last) anyways going by the way the human race has evolved and resenting over god’s creation or should I say the way women evolved, there is a lot that is left out for an explanation before we even start to think about the world without women
Man had always tried to understand woman, just as he had endeavoured to understand all other aspects of his world, but with little success. It was agreed among man what woman was-- more beautiful, less intelligent and crazy. But man could never agree on why.
If without women, man would have been a nomad travelling around the world foraging for fruits and berries or perhaps building things for the future (like inventing fire, hunting tools or a rudimentary mud hut). This life of his was blissful, less caring and more adventurous. But with the woman at his side and by her constant influence man had to settle down and pick one place to forage and live. This I think was only after centuries of constant nagging and bitching.
With permanent settlements came agriculture, but only reluctantly so. Man didn't necessarily till the fields for his own sake, but rather because woman expected him to. Woman's obsession with material wealth and a higher standard of living pushed man to excel and to provide more and more for her, a precedent that would be followed for the next couple millennia of human existence.
Woman also engaged in mating practices that intimidated and confused most clear-thinking men. While man was out in the forests and fields building things for the future the woman was off with a lesser man romping around, being treated poorly, you know, having "fun" the way a woman does.
Anyways, to escape the already testing family life and women’s almost idiotic propensity towards this irrational behaviour, man developed philosophy and religion-- philosophy to justify to himself the reasons for his own loneliness and try understanding everything but women, and religion to "persuade" woman she was better off with him, rather than a bunch of unknown misfits (to whom she never the less was always attracted).
Now having achieved the wanted and finding happiness in the most unexpected, irrelevant, inappropriate and unheard things women then went ahead to claim her superiority over man. With her role in man's family now firmly in place (thanks to settlement, family and related forced affairs), she yearned for power equal or greater to man's and nagged until man relented and gave her a nominal role in his affairs.
With power and things falling her way she started becoming a greater force to reckon and the worst to bear. Unbeknownst to woman, however, this arrangement never left the realm of triviality, at least not in man's mind, which was all that counted in the scheme of things. Woman was free to imagine herself as a string-puller, an ear-whisperer, an illusion she derived much pleasure from, being a psycho-neurotic. Man, in turn, was free to keep the appearance up, if only for his own peace of mind, all the while ignoring woman's very real attempts to take things further.
Dumbstruck by his loss and slow eclipse of his power and authority, man returned to thinking and contemplating his condition, which led to all kinds of tragic and empty-stomach induced erroneous logic. Theories like socialism, communism, moral relativism and egalitarianism abounded. Man took to abridging fellow man's freedom as a simple pastime, and finally, in an angry and frustrated act of desperation, man turned to war as a release. Finally, when the Earth was scorched, the trenches and fields littered with bodies and mushroom clouds rose over the horizon, man paused to give reason one more shot.
Rather than trying to rationalize woman any further and remain confused for the rest of his existence, he turned his energies towards trying to understand how best to exploit woman's weaknesses, as well as her strengths.
Now going by the way things have been explained, understood and observed and how the human race has evolved we can only differ to argue and imagine a world without women, can we? Anyways the extent of damage if not the development nearly opposes any argument or statement that can be made against the very existence of women.
What would be of man, without woman?
He would remain a wild beast or a free man wandering forest and fields with nothing much at stake than his mere survival. His evolution as a civilised and family man would have been a complete miss where most of his inventions like the steam engine, electric bulb, gramophone, antibiotics and the wheel itself would never have been attempted.
Mans drive to amass wealth, popularity and attention would have not got into picture as he would have no one but his own self to please. Going by the extremes and assuming him to resort and please other men he still would have had himself than other material and trivial things to exhibit.
Now venturing into the fact of reproduction of men (as we have completely striken out women), god would have created a rather simple and less enigmatic machine capable to producing men with no frills attached, it probably would need a push of a button or pulling of a lever.
On the contrary and speaking of our acquaintance with them in our own sphere, and the way in which we seem to fascinate and draw ourselves to them even as our perceptions are obtuse, where we talk vehemently and superlatively, blunder and quarrel. Without women we still would have been a beast in the forest.
And so to add that extra spice and avoid having a near perfect world, I would not want to imagine a world without women.
Epilogue:
‘The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed’.
This post of mine was influenced (including a few excerpts and views) by a great few who shared a greater knowledge in understanding women proposing theories which never the less failed in achieving the greater goal if not assisting man to almost conquer them.
