Christopher Hitches wrote a book subtitled "How Religion Poisons Everything." I don't know if that's true, but some recent art is I think doing a really good job illustrating it with respect to patriarchy.
Rowan Kaiser has a pretty interesting take on Game of Thrones HERE. After some critical reflections, Kaiser concludes:
But when Game of Thrones works, it's a magnificent depiction of how sexist systems ruin everyone, even those they're supposed to help. Every woman on the show is oppressed in some way. And the only men who can succeed are those who submerge their humanity and happiness, or were sociopaths to begin with. Westeros’ patriarchy may be a metaphor that can't exist in our real world, but that's what makes it so rhetorically powerful.
Well, even Kantian ideals (Platonic Ideas, for that matter) are things that one can find oneself closer to and further away from in the actual world. I think that what Kaiser attributes to Game of Thrones was clearly the theme of Mad Men's first two seasons.
Strangely, as far as I know this hasn't been a theme of successful academic novels as of yet. David Lodge has some powerful female characters, but I think it may be beyond his pay-grade to illustrate the relevant truths from within the modern framework established by Kingsley Amis.
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