On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Bonobashi <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I was trying to 'sell' to you, Shiv, as you have spotted, is the idea > that matriarchal society was the accepted norm right through pre-history, > with all the riff-raff (males) sent safely far away from the camp to hunt, > while grown-ups (females) worked on getting on with life, and were allowed > back in with the fruits of this go-out-and-play-now only in the evening or > night. This was a very stable system until patriarchal societies replaced > them. The precise nature and the reasons behind this revolutionary change are > far too complex to discuss even in a book or two hundred. > > The wandering of the Indo-Aryans was one of the phenomena which contributed > to this revolution. Think of male domination of society as a disease. The IA > volkswanderueng spread the patriarchal cosmogony and patriarchal social > architecture over a large part of the Northern hemisphere using the very > effective language and its future developed sub-forms as a vector. > > Recent developments in the last two thousand years are a particularly squalid > manifestation of this disease - a nauseating sub-type, if you like. We have > to wait for the virus to mutate into harmless forms, or find a ratiocinated > cure. > > If you look at the way women address daily life versus the way men do, the > analogy might be of a Phalcon on an IL76 platform, versus an SU 30 MKI. > > I hope you are enjoying it. It was like a dip in an ice-cold pool for me the > first time I read it. >
Which book is this? -gabin -- Joan Collins - "The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."
