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MAN’S WORLD
“[Man] thinks of himself as
a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him,
not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.”
-- Helen Hoover
In her
video entitled ‘Adam’s World,’ Elizabeth Dodson Gray claims that
western society has not adapted to the natural world because we
have never felt we had to.
She says
that under patriarchy, the environment has been imaged as
feminine. ‘Mother’ Earth’s ‘virgin’ resources have been ‘under’
us in the hierarchy, ripe for rape and exploitation. In
arrogance, the prevailing attitude has been that ‘Mother’ Nature
will never kill us, no matter what we do.
Clearly,
our masculine risk energy has run amok. Dodson notes that
conservation energy is feminine, and we must understand how to
bring balance. The planet is in dire need of a whole system
ethic that produces good decisions that are good for everyone.
“Today everyone can see the
full extent of the past and present atrocities on this earth. No
one can any longer claim she or he didn’t know anything.”
-- Christina Thürmer-Rohr
Get the
full story: Elizabeth Dodson Gray, ‘Adam’s World’
videorecording, National Film Board of Canada, 1989.
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