<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Gennaro--<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike O'Brien<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:45 AM, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>In case you were wondering what my mother thinks of Pussy Riot and the<br>connection with nature, read below.....thought it was appropriate to<br>the discussion of the ultra technological (but lifeless) Passive House<br>vs. more biophillic techniques of building.....<br><br>I find the Pussy Riot thing the most truly political act I can<br>remember; maybe the only one I remember.<br><br>The Arab spring, the various anti war demonstrations, the Occupy<br>movement, etc etc are worthy enough, some improvement on a temporary<br>basis, but really simply removing one bunch of men to put another. or<br>to put women who have, through their climb to power, had to absorb the<br>male mindset of territoriality and patriarchy. (Condalenca Rice? the<br>female chief of police that ordered, and defends, the shooting, the<br>murder, of striking miners in S.A.?)<br><br>The base problem of human civilization is the co-option of the innate<br>human connection to Nature, to the Earth and all its Life-giving<br>processes, by men, by patriarchy.<br><br>Robert Graves posits that when men made the connection between the act<br>of copulation, insemination, pregnancy and birth, was when the dynamic<br>of human society changed.<br>Think about it; what does a small child think when he sees a woman's<br>belly swell, when a child. astoundingly!!, comes forth.<br>To make a connection between that and a seemingly incidental act of<br>physical hygiene, nine months previous....un-likely.<br>And so it was with primitive man; they thought she'd sat upon a magic<br>rock, or ate a magic plant, or the stars injected her...or, or , or...<br><br>Once men tweaked to their part in the deal, things shifted.<br><br>This was their child, their projection, their extension.<br>Their tribe.<br>Tribalism is to be feared. It is an arbitrary division, thus<br>destruction, of Nature.<br> Zionism, Shism, Catholism, on and on.... and Oh!, the wars we are<br>fighting, the children who are dying, to defend these spurious<br>designated tribes.<br><br>And so the concept of private property surged, of control the woman,<br>of monogamy, of subjugation of woman.<br>Like livestock, the 'breeders' had to be managed, to increase the<br>wealth and sanctity of the livestock owner.<br><br>And, most pivotally, the recognition of Nature, the connection to the<br>Earth had to be switched to a worship of a God.<br>"Omnipotent", "All-Seeing"....Big brother in a cave. Paleolithic Putin.<br><br>And from this comes the basic mis-understanding; that the Earth is<br>here for humans to exploit.<br>As men shifted to exploit their breeders, they then exploited the Earth.<br><br>The only issue worth focusing on right now is the environmental<br>crisis; all else pales; fiddling while Rome burns.<br>And this male-enforced divorce from nature is at the root of this<br>Earth-wide disaster.<br><br>All established religion is engineered (by men) to enforce this exploitation;<br>The innate fear in all (un-aware) men is of women and of their power;<br>Fear, terror it seems, of the power of connection to Nature's cycles<br>and its utter and total primary-ness in the Life of all Being.<br><br>When I hear the (undoubtedly worthy) rebel fighters of the Arab Spring<br>shout Allah who Akbar (God is great) with every shot, I quake.<br>When I see that the first 5 of the 10 Commandments are only about<br>establishing the power of the religious patriarchal authority, I<br>quake. (the advice against murder , surely the most basic of all human<br>laws, does not appear until # 6, amazingly enough).<br>When I see Zionists killing Arabs, based on something supposedly<br>written 5 thousand years ago, I quake.<br>When I see that there is no record of any Western herbalism/medicine<br>from before the year 1600, because men destroyed all of it, fearing<br>this female healing power, I quake.<br><br>In the beginning there was Nature.<br>Will there be in the end?<br><br>I know the women of Pussy Riot would have been burned at the stake,<br>until relatively recently.<br><br>And so would have I.<br><br>--------------<br><br><br>Punk-Prayer "Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away"<br><br>(choir)<br><br>Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away<br>ňut Putin away, put Putin away<br><br>(end chorus) ...<br>Black robe, golden epaulettes<br>All parishioners crawl to bow<br>The phantom of liberty is in heaven<br>Gay-pride sent to Siberia in chains<br><br>The head of the KGB, their chief saint,<br>Leads protesters to prison under escort<br>In order not to offend His Holiness<br>Women must give birth and love<br><br>Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!<br>Shit, shit, the Lord's shit!<br><br>(Chorus)<br><br>Virgin Mary, Mother of God, become a feminist<br>Become a feminist, become a feminist<br><br>(end chorus)<br><br>The Church's praise of rotten dictators<br>The cross-bearer procession of black limousines<br>A teacher-preacher will meet you at school<br>Go to class - bring him money!<br><br>Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin<br>Bitch, better believe in God instead<br>The belt of the Virgin can't replace mass-meetings<br>Mary, Mother of God, is with us in protest!<br><br>(Chorus)<br><br>Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away<br>ňut Putin away, put Putin away<br><br>---------------<br>Gennaro Brooks-Church<br>Director, Eco Brooklyn Inc.<br>Cell: 1 347 244 3016 USA<br><a href="http://www.EcoBrooklyn.com">www.EcoBrooklyn.com</a><br>22 2nd St; Brooklyn, NY 11231<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br>Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org<br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>