Hello Everyone!
Thank you so much for our conversation on Monday inspired by Riane Eisler's work on domination systems. The introduction to The Chalice and the Blade shows that we have been taught a limited vision of human alternatives. We have also been taught to divide the world into opposing camps such as religious vs. secular, capitalist vs. communist, developing world vs. developed world, light skinned vs. dark skinned races, and so on. To gain insight into how these systems and structures affect humanity it is useful to look at the dominator or partnership aspects in each of them.
For tomorrow, please finish reading the Introduction and Chapter 1, in addition to a chapter of your choosing. Select a quote and be prepared to share and talk about it in class, or you may discuss the following question:
- Name or identify partnership and/or dominator aspects of particular religions, philosophies, and political structures, focusing particularly on contemporary trends toward partnership and the dominator resistance?
Please also listen to the following talks holding the question: How and what (domination system) problems do these thinkers, Arundhati Roy and Vandana Shiva, identify? What partnership solutions do they offer?
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