[Greenbuilding] Pussy Riot

Sun Aug 19 14:34:20 CDT 2012

Hi, Gennaro--

The Red Queen does discuss the role women play. The book describes a hypothesis for the development of sexual reproduction in evolution. It goes on to describe plausible hypotheses, and related research projects, for human--both men and women-- cultural and social patterns and how they may connect to fundamental genetic drives. 

I found it helpful in making sense out of a lot of confusing cultural norms.

Best,

Mike O'Brien

On Aug 19, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn wrote:

> Hi,
> I have not read The Red Queen. Looks informative.
> My one issue with the theory that men killed the goddess is that if
> everything is connected (a central theme of Goddess theory), then
> women are just as much to blame as men for the state of religion etc.
> Why have women not kept men in check? Are they such passive victims
> that they can't stop such a colossal destruction of the planet? I see
> a lot of sense in the Goddess as controlled by patriarchy argument. It
> is the party line for many people.
> 
> But that puts the blame on men as oppressors and takes the blame away
> from other creatures who are victims, which is too simplistic and
> black and white IMO. There are many times more insect mass than human
> mass. Why have insects not stopped humans from destroying the planet?
> 
> It may indeed be that male and female energy became distorted but if
> it was due to men seeing an opportunity to control other life
> including reproduction of women, why would they do that? I am not sure
> men benefit on a genetic level from such actions. HUMANS, on the other
> hand may benefit genetically from such actions, in which case maybe
> the situation of some humans oppressing other life forms (including
> other humans) would make sense from an evolutionary view.
> 
> I'm going to bow out now because this stuff is totally over my head
> and I have no idea what I'm talking about.
> 
> Gennaro Brooks-Church
> Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.
> Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
> www.EcoBrooklyn.com
> 22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Michael O'Brien <obrien at hevanet.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Gennaro--
>> 
>> Thanks, your mom is a wise woman! She might enjoy reading The Red Queen,
>> which goes into detail on the biological basis for men controlling women.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Mike O'Brien
>> Mike O'Brien Photography
>> mikeoregon.zenfolio.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:45 AM, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn wrote:
>> 
>> In case you were wondering what my mother thinks of Pussy Riot and the
>> connection with nature, read below.....thought it was appropriate to
>> the discussion of the ultra technological (but lifeless) Passive House
>> vs. more biophillic techniques of building.....
>> 
>> I find the Pussy Riot thing the most truly political act I can
>> remember; maybe the only one I remember.
>> 
>> The Arab spring, the various anti war demonstrations, the Occupy
>> movement, etc etc are worthy enough, some improvement on a temporary
>> basis, but really simply removing one bunch of men to put another. or
>> to put women who have, through their climb to power, had to absorb the
>> male mindset of territoriality and patriarchy. (Condalenca Rice? the
>> female chief of police that ordered, and defends, the shooting, the
>> murder,  of striking miners in S.A.?)
>> 
>> The base problem of human civilization is the co-option of the innate
>> human connection to Nature, to the Earth and all its Life-giving
>> processes, by men, by patriarchy.
>> 
>> Robert Graves posits that when men made the connection between the act
>> of copulation, insemination, pregnancy and birth, was when the dynamic
>> of human society changed.
>> Think about it; what does a small child think when he sees a woman's
>> belly swell, when a child. astoundingly!!,  comes forth.
>> To make a connection between that and a seemingly incidental act of
>> physical hygiene, nine months previous....un-likely.
>> And so it was with primitive man; they thought she'd sat upon a magic
>> rock, or ate a magic plant, or the stars injected her...or, or , or...
>> 
>> Once men tweaked to their part in the deal, things shifted.
>> 
>> This was their child, their projection, their extension.
>> Their tribe.
>> Tribalism is to be feared. It is an arbitrary division, thus
>> destruction, of Nature.
>> Zionism, Shism, Catholism, on and on.... and Oh!, the wars we are
>> fighting, the children who are dying,  to defend these spurious
>> designated tribes.
>> 
>> And so the concept of private property surged, of control the woman,
>> of monogamy, of subjugation of woman.
>> Like livestock, the 'breeders' had to be managed, to increase the
>> wealth and sanctity of the livestock owner.
>> 
>> And, most pivotally, the recognition of Nature, the connection to the
>> Earth had to be switched to a worship of a God.
>> "Omnipotent", "All-Seeing"....Big brother in a cave. Paleolithic Putin.
>> 
>> And from this comes the basic mis-understanding; that the Earth is
>> here for humans to exploit.
>> As men shifted to exploit their breeders, they then exploited the Earth.
>> 
>> The only issue worth focusing on right now is the environmental
>> crisis; all else pales; fiddling while Rome burns.
>> And this male-enforced divorce from nature is at the root of this
>> Earth-wide disaster.
>> 
>> All established religion is engineered (by men)  to enforce this
>> exploitation;
>> The innate fear in all (un-aware) men is of women and of their power;
>> Fear, terror it seems, of the power of connection to Nature's cycles
>> and  its utter and total  primary-ness in the Life of all Being.
>> 
>> When I hear the (undoubtedly worthy) rebel fighters of the Arab Spring
>> shout Allah who Akbar (God is great) with every shot, I quake.
>> When I see that the first 5 of the 10 Commandments are only about
>> establishing the power of the religious patriarchal authority, I
>> quake. (the advice against murder , surely the most basic of all human
>> laws, does not appear until # 6, amazingly enough).
>> When I see Zionists killing Arabs, based on something supposedly
>> written 5 thousand years ago, I quake.
>> When I see that there is no record of any Western herbalism/medicine
>> from before the year 1600, because men destroyed all of it, fearing
>> this female healing power, I quake.
>> 
>> In the beginning there was Nature.
>> Will there be in the end?
>> 
>> I know the women of Pussy Riot would have been burned at the stake,
>> until relatively recently.
>> 
>> And so would have I.
>> 
>> --------------
>> 
>> 
>> Punk-Prayer "Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away"
>> 
>> (choir)
>> 
>> Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away
>> Рut Putin away, put Putin away
>> 
>> (end chorus) ...
>> Black robe, golden epaulettes
>> All parishioners crawl to bow
>> The phantom of liberty is in heaven
>> Gay-pride sent to Siberia in chains
>> 
>> The head of the KGB, their chief saint,
>> Leads protesters to prison under escort
>> In order not to offend His Holiness
>> Women must give birth and love
>> 
>> Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!
>> Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!
>> 
>> (Chorus)
>> 
>> Virgin Mary, Mother of God, become a feminist
>> Become a feminist, become a feminist
>> 
>> (end chorus)
>> 
>> The Church's praise of rotten dictators
>> The cross-bearer procession of black limousines
>> A teacher-preacher will meet you at school
>> Go to class - bring him money!
>> 
>> Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin
>> Bitch, better believe in God instead
>> The belt of the Virgin can't replace mass-meetings
>> Mary, Mother of God, is with us in protest!
>> 
>> (Chorus)
>> 
>> Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away
>> Рut Putin away, put Putin away
>> 
>> ---------------
>> Gennaro Brooks-Church
>> Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.
>> Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA
>> www.EcoBrooklyn.com
>> 22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231
>> 
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