EMC027 Them vs Us 1/2  
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      California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

EMC027 Them vs Us, Part 1/2           For release 5/13/96   

Query: How we can transcend the ARES vs RACES conflict?

Reply: By understanding why some of us perceive it as conflict,
and by our moving beyond that mindset. 

In "The Chalice and the Blade" author Riane Eisler shows how the
conflict trait evolved from the eastern nomadic invasions into
Europe by those with a "them vs us" society. Described as the
Kurgan Waves by Marija Gimbutas (in a l977 Journal of European
Studies) their hierarchical domination ranking (men over women,
strong over weak) and "man the warrior" concepts forced a major
shift in human cultural evolutionary history. 

Since then we have dominated and murdered each other on the basis
of religious, economic, social, cultural and personal reasons
(excuses). Since we have been brought up in a society in which
the "them vs us" was a way of life (where one aspect is dominant
over another as a "right") it is difficult to discern that there
once was, and again may be, an alternate.

"The Chalice and the Blade" (Harper & Row, 1987), which is said
to be the most important book since Darwin's "Origin of the
Species", describes the alternative evolutionary pathway from
which mankind was diverted; a direction to which human evolution
is once again turning. Eisler also describes how those who 
strongly self-identify with the "them vs us" concept violently
resist efforts to return to anything that they feel or sense is 
a threat to "domination" as a matter of "right".

In other words there are those who see a conflict existence
between the ARES and the RACES because it is so difficult to
discern the muddy rut we are in when we are mired in the mud and
striving to find a way out - but fighting the forces that put us
in the mud at the same time we are fighting to get out of it!!

continues next week

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