Given that the
world is a mess (who can dispute it?), and that men have run the world for 6000
years (no dispute here either), it’s easy to see why one of my wonderful
commenters recently opined that “it's fair to question even the necessity of
the existence of men.”
To me the
evidence shows that before about 4000 BC the world worked OK -- even with men
in it. Also, in many modern indigenous societies, men are sweet things,
courageous and manly (see peacefulsocieties.org).
So we could try
to make things right by rubbing out men -- invent a drug that smushes the male
fetus, for example, slip it into the world’s drinking water, and – voila! – men
gone.
The problem is,
blotting out the male sex would not blot out patriarchal culture* – a way of
life in which societies are ruled by a small group of elites. In a
trice, a few power-hungry women would stomp all over the rest of us, and
in no time we’d be right back where we started from.
My preference: a
return to the pre-patriarchal cultures covering the globe before 4000 BC (and
even beyond; these gorgeous cultures didn’t all disappear in 4000 BC; they only
began to disappear then).
In the old
peaceful, nonviolent societies everyone was equally valuable. According
to the evidence people were organized around female deity. Men were
courageous, handsome, manly hunks who revered women.**
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*Culture:
learned, shared, patterned behavior manifest in art and artifact, and passed on
from one generation to the next ad infinitum. Cultures are like giant
spider webs. They are hard to change because tapping one part of the web
to change, means all other parts of the web must change too.
**For more on
this, see Switching to Goddess: Humanity’s Ticket to the Future.
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