On 19/08/2014 17:09, June Gorman wrote:

I understand that internal need created by the initial "innocence" fracture, taught in sexist, racist. classist societies that want to maintain that inequitable status quo, but I don't think we can continue to suggest we can truly get anywhere different if we don't start acknowledging and addressing it, in all of us who came from those kinds of societies.

It is therefore, and unfortunately because truly difficult work, not at all peripheral to these essential questions of sustainability and healthiness of humanity and the planet, but the core issues to address in truly getting to anywhere socially, economically and emotionally different.

Yes indeed.

I have been baffled for some time about how to introduce these concerns and what has been learned, however as you say this is 'tough stuff'.

Maybe some kind of face to face inquiry node on these topics alongside the list would be valuable. And if we are both in London (and anyone else, I am also based in Brussels) we could perhaps see if that idea had legs. I'll send my contact details off-line.

A last thought that might nourish anyone looking in, or draw acute scepticism! Few people seem in touch with the long term research of the psychohistorians. A key element of their study of the evolution of childhood and its relation to political realities suggests that the possible politics to some degree tracks changes in child, especially infant, child care. ie that political relationships elvolve in the direction of mirroring how power is experienced via childcare. It could be that the extent to which men are much more involved in childcare and that it seems increasingly more child-centered, might result in a contradiction of patriarchal politics. This has been my personal or local experience. Your thoughts?
Denis

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