On 15 Jun 1995,to subject: RE: stormy everyday ,"Al Rushanan TAL (904)487-1855" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is McNamara getting religion because death is approaching? Why > wasn't he this compassionate back then? It wasn't lack of brains - > the guy has a very high IQ. Would a woman in his position have > advised the president differently? What would a woman in Johnson's > position have done? I have a tendency to try to reduce things to > brain chemistry, and the differences between men and women seems to > be a key. A woman (or man) who would have and could have advised Johnson differently would not have been Secretary of Defense. It was time for war. America needed one and, by God, JFK, LBJ, and then Nixon gave us one, whether we wanted one or not. Anyone who advised anything but war in those days was quickly removed. Before you wax eloquent about Woman the Peacemaker, do the names Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, and Margaret Thatcher ring a bell? I'm not so sure brain chemistry has anything to do with it. I think it might have more to do with the nature of the political-economic system that this planet has embraced. Without war, it stops working. > A former Ecofem subscriber mentioned "The Chalice & the Blade" by > Riane Eisler. "Chalice" is probably the most important book I ever > read. She theorizes, based on archeological evidence, that > civilization was NOT run by men 5000 years ago; that power was > shared between men and women; and that war was rare or nonexistent > until barbarians overthrew them, and it's been downhill ever since. > I think the concept of moving from a dominator to a partnership > based civilization is critical for avoiding global holocaust and/or > ecological collapse (or both). I wonder if we can get there from > our competition based economy. > aVr Read Chellis Glendinning's MY NAME IS CHELLIS AND I'M IN RECOVERY FROM WESTERN CIVILIZATION (Shambala, 1994) for the perspective that it all started going downhill when humans domesticated plants and animals and foresook the life, culture, economy, and polity of the hunter-gatherer. What you are really asking is whether a world culture that has as its operative principle "DOMINATE, DESTROY, OR DIE" can function in any other way. The principle works like this: That which we can not dominate we must destroy; if we do not, it will dominate or destroy us. Our business is destruction and, for the last 10,000 years, business is good. <---- End Included Message ---->
