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THE RIVER Growing Flowing down to THE SEA
Page 8 by Elizabeth Abraham

person can be at ease and at home: the POSSIBILITY of a feminist world.

Of course men went out, to fight, to hunt... made the external world their male preserve, and brought those male values back .................. but into a society still modelled on the home: the household where value judgements ruled, rather than the value of money (ECNOMICS).

'Values'? What values? Ah well, that was always a realm of contention.

The external world was opened out, by explorers, discoverers, 'scientists' ..................... and traders.

But traders do not have to be exploiters. A just prices gives equal profit to both sides, so they are doing one anohter a service, ie promoting Values, not just money profit; and thus maintaining the obligation of every single person to serve (how quaint and outmoded in the ECONOMIC model os Society): to realise that they are a contribuiting part in a whole organism wider than their scope in life: ultimately that they are part of Gaia, the living web of the living world.

By the 18th century a booming merchant class was conquering, trading and looting abroad. They were using their loot to control the household ECONOMIA at home. This was the 'Domestic System' and it asserted the values not of the household but of the COUNTING house, an exclusively male preserve.

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