RE: An era of matriarchy?
October 21, 2012 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2012 at 2:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 21, 2012 at 2:24 pm)Ciel_Rouge Wrote: Because they would be advanced enough to realize that the suppression of any social group does not bring any serious gain. It only leads to them performing much worse at whatever they are doing and also leads to them craving mutiny at some point. It is not only about women but even teenagers etc. - sometimes there are teenage geniuses etc. who are suppressed and sent to hospital. Imagine a civilization where everyone is allowed to contribute to science, technology etc. and where teenage geniuses are allowed to work legit instead of forcefully making them retarded and ignoring just because it is the "wrong age" to be smart.Why would they realize this? I don't think you understand my question. I'm not trying to argue ideology with you, I'm asking why you assume that some past civilization would have had to agree with your (our) ideology in order to be advanced, or as an effect of it's being advanced.
There is one branch of life which already does that - in classical music you have "prodigies" who are allowed to study with grownups and treated seriously even if they are only 7 or so.
A strong society, powerful scientifically and economically, is one where all members can contribute freely.
Quote:In Islamic countries women are suppressed. And the Islamic countries do not have very advanced science nor a space program
They don't now, but they were once the very center of the academic world. Snapshots in time. At that point in time they were very much under the control of brutal patriarchs.
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