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THE RIVER Growing Flowing down to THE SEA
Page 5 by Elizabeth Abraham

'using men as a comfortable cushion against the intolerabilities of her lopsided progression, thus being able to do what MAN has done: carry this style to the point of madness (inability to live in the real world), the schizophrenia of the human race, the point of no return for all humanity. …………………………..

We can't imagine it, it didn't happen and let men take heart: it never will. Because humankind does learn, we are going to redress the balance: NOT set the pendulum swinging from one disastrous extreme towards the other, but rather create at last the harmonious whole in between where each sex makes their complete contribution, and the garden of the whole person (and the whole world) can blossom.

So if you find those terms Patriarchal and Feminist too polemical, we could use the familiar words INDUSTRIAL and ECONOMIC instead, INDUSTRIAL Society, justified by ECONOMICS, being the particular form Patriarchy has taken in its ultimate and present day expression.

ECONOMICS

This now domineering concept of ECONOMICS derived originally from the woman's sphere par excellence: 'the management of the household', from the Greek, oikos: house + nemien: to manage the household ECONOMY.

Whatever men may claim, the values of 'home', at the heart of the household, are made by women: the womb, the inner centre, inner

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