![]() ![]() Some argue our troubles are due to our ‘industrial paradigm,’ that our ‘scientific worldview’ is to blame. “…Socialists and communists assert that the root of our problems is capitalism capitalists insist socialism and communism are leading us to ruin. And yet, this same wondrous species of ours now seems bent on putting an end not only to its own evolution, but to that of most life on our globe, threatening our planet with ecological catastrophe or nuclear annihilation. Because of our unique ability to imagine new realities and realize these through ever more advanced technologies, we are quite literally partners in our own evolution. “Of all life-forms on this planet, only we can plant and harvest fields, compose poetry and music, seek truth and justice, teach a child to read and write – or even laugh and cry. “Why do we hunt and persecute each other? Why is our world so full of man’s infamous inhumanity to man – and to woman? How can human beings be so brutal to their own kind? What is it that chronically tilts us toward cruelty rather than kindness, toward war rather than peace, toward destruction rather than actualization? Riane Eisler writes in her revelatory work, The Chalice and The Blade: ![]() The Grail Quest and The Destiny of Man: Part V: The Chalice and the Blade ![]()
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