We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system. Riane Eisler More Quotes by Riane Eisler More Quotes From Riane Eisler To heal ourselves we also have to heal society. Riane Eisler heal Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic feelings and needs. Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world. Riane Eisler communicationpowerfulteaching The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature." Riane Eisler strongkingspast The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist. Riane Eisler degreesdifferentreligious Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market. Riane Eisler childhoodtrainingwages We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Riane Eisler productive-workjobsmoving Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership. Riane Eisler toolspeoplethinking We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force. Riane Eisler whalescaringmother We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world. Riane Eisler foundationpoliticalcaring Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving. Riane Eisler servinginferioritydifferences
