Now is the moment for women to step onto the stage of world
history. They've been absent long enough, and a planet on
the brink is to show for it.
Recall how we got into the current fiscal catastrophe: via
capitalism. And remember it was capitalism, in the 14th
century, that made women unemployed, since housework was
non-paid labor.
Since that time, capitalism has used the backs of women to
grow, but it's never thought of utilizing women's minds or
their inherent reverence for life to keep it balanced. It's
been a man's world, out-of-balance, tilted towards death.
The financial collapse across the world and the looming
planet meltdown are direct results of this out-of-balance
world that men have designed, produced and starred in
Capitalism may be the culprit: its blatant disregard for
human rights, values, and life--the important things that
women don't so easily forget--is obvious. But capitalism is
merely the vehicle employed by men to continue their
exploitation of the world and its resources.
The ultimate propaganda piece: "There's no alternative to
capitalism; it's all we got" is now seen as ludicrous. As
if our human nature, our destiny, is forever wedded to war
and misery for most of the earth's population, while a few
privileged prop their feet on foot stools with
ivory-trimmed legs imported from the Congo.
But while capitalism is down for the count, the fix is in
to bring it back, to prop it up again, to get people
spending and buying like crazy again, just as women are
constantly being asked to prop men up, to reassure their
flagging egos and their failing potency.
But this time the planet itself is on the ropes. If we
simply restore the economy, without radical and fundamental
change, it will cause irreparable damage to planet Earth.
The dismal state of capitalism is tied to the insane
business of consumerism, and there's a direct line from
them to the global meltdown.
Men alone cannot be relied on to make these changes. This
should be obvious to anyone by now who's still awake.
This time women, who have been out of the picture for the
past 10,000 year--and what a time it's been--this time
women must come to the table.
If they don't, the table will be under water.
At the beginning of "civilization," 10,000 years ago, if
women had been part of the decision-making process (as they
had been for the previous 400,000 years during the
hunter-gatherer period), we probably wouldn't have gotten
off on the wrong foot.
A war foot(ing). And war has been one of the dominant
activities of men ever since.
Women were left out of the loop at the beginning and it
became second nature to think of that situation as normal.
Just as it became second nature to think of women as having
a "second nature," one below that of men.
Patriarchy, the foundation of the major religions of the
world, holds that women are beneath men. They are to be
subjugated, under his thumb.
Women need to speak up. Point out the false promises of
civilization, of capitalism and the false premise of
Patriarchy. They've all led to disaster.
Women can use this momentary fissure in our carefully
stitched-together story to demonstrate the connection
between the false fantasies of capitalism and the equally
false fantasies of male dominance and superiority.
We've closeted women long enough. They need to emerge from
the shadows, take center stage, and speak about a Culture
of Life. This is what they alone know so well. And they've
been missing in action for 10,000 years. During that time
we've had a culture of violence, fear and death.
If it doesn't end, we will.
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