[P2P-F] outstanding and must-read essay on the origins of gender equality

Fri Sep 7 07:16:56 CEST 2018

This is a really outstanding essay making the case that humanity is primed
for cooperation and gender equality:

https://libcom.org/history/gender-egalitarianism-made-us-human-response-david-graeber-david-wengrows-how-change-cou

" Does it matter that women organizing as the revolutionary sex bust
through the ‘gray ceiling’ of brain size? That deep social mind gave us the
platform of trust for sharing language, rhythm and song? That female
political strategies created human symbolic culture? That resistance is at
the core of being human? Should we be telling our children the story of our
Paleolithic heritage of gender equality – the untold secret – and how it
gave our African ancestors an extraordinary future? If we want that future
stretching ahead of us as far as it stretches back into our hunter-gatherer
past, I think it does.

We are lingering in the dying days of a clapped-out Neolithic gender
system. The more that women all over the world achieve true equality, the
more they regain the Palaeolithic birthright of all humans. Through gender
egalitarianism, we became language-speaking, artistic, shamanistic,
all-singing, all-dancing human beings roughly 200,000 years ago. Against
the lifespan of our species, Neolithic patriarchy is a historic blip in
time."

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