-Caveat Lector-
Alamaine Ratliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Literacy, Shlain is convinced, is the force that dethroned the goddess,
demoted women, and set the course for 5,000 years of patriarchal
oppression,intolerance, and misogyny. How is this possible? Because, Shlain
believes, there was "something in the way people acquired this new skill that
changed the brain's actual structure."<<
The *invention* of the alphabet surely preceded the "masculinist revolution"
by many centuries. The original purpose of letters was magical: by creating a
verbal snapshot of an event or an entity, you could control that entity. (This
still works--only today we call it "diagnostics" or "cladistics" or
"taxonomy".) At this point, the Goddess and her hierarchs could still control
the very potent tool represented by the alphabet. The true revolution occurred
when someone (probably a man) realized that you could also use letters to
write down everything from poems to law codes, thereby making what had been
limited to privileged initiates available to anyone who made the effort to
learn to read. This happened at different times in different places; it seems
to have taken place first in Sumeria, where the first bureaucracy was also
created. (This was not a coincidence. Bureaucracy requires forms, and forms
require writing.) In Greece, the change happened about the time of Homer--Mary
Renault, in *The Praise Singer*, has her protagonist complain that these kids
today, with their new-fangled literacy, can't memorize worth a damn. Shortly
thereafter, the Athenians voted to disenfranchise their women...
Bob
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