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Visit GravitasMag.com for an audio narrative of this article by the author. By Jules Lewis Gibson, Founder & President GR AVITAS Magazine Follow Jules @SeasideJules today lives under one global god: the God of War, who is continuously empowered and enlarged by the religion of money." e world's male population has been funneled into armies, military technicians and researchers, thereby turning war into the major mode of male survival. While women sustain agricultural and craftwork in many ird World nations—making up at least 80% of the light-assembly workforce in the global "Free Trade Zone," elsewhere struggling to keep themselves and their children alive in the expanding refugee camps created by incessant war—males are often only able to obtain employment, food and shelter by joining the military, the national guard or other armed policing force, thereby perpetuating the War God machinery on all levels of belief, power and survival. Men fear the day women refuse to participate in the continual cycle of greed and intimidation that has been inflicted upon them and their children for thousands of years. ey would like to continue the charade that males can be free while females remain dominated and enslaved, just as white imperialists pretended to be soulful, good people while colonizing and brutalizing indigenous cultures. Only now, everyone is in one way or another enslaved and dominated by the machine. "e opposite of life is not death, but to become a mechanism," write Sjöö and Mor. The Future Rather than annihilate the machine and denounce progress, it is up to us to discover how modern technologies can be used in a cooperative-communal system…not for the profit of a few, but for the benefit of all. We must reject the patriarchal suggestion that there are only two choices: man's capitalism or man's communism. ere is another way: a partnership cooperative in which resources are shared and strengths are used to benefit everyone. Hard work and skill should be rewarded, but not at the expense of the vast majority of the population. Societies are made up of a collection of people who are intertwined. Opportunities must be honestly given regardless of race, gender or ethnicity, and nature must be valued at least as much as technology. Instead of income redistribution, perhaps a better system would be resource distribution. We should evaluate how each individual can best contribute to society, whether it be in the form of money or time. If a person is not highly trained in a lucrative field, they still have valuable skills to contribute, perhaps in the form of maintaining a communal garden, building shelters or caring for children. Instead of fixating on the past and all that has been lost, we must look to the future and what could be much better than anything ever known. Advances can be utilized to make life more enjoyable for all rather than stockpiled for the benefit of only a few as the masses are marginalized and displaced. Comprehensive retraining for people should be offered for those whose professions are diminished with advances in technology, robotics and A.I. Wide-ranging strategies developing new structures within our society should focus on partnership rather than division and dominance. Bill Gates recently introduced an interesting suggestion to tax robots the equivalent of a personal income tax to offset the loss of a job. Proceeds from such a tax could be used to retrain individuals and improve the quality of life for all. We must seek creative solutions and find common ground to end the perpetual warring cycle, socioeconomic inequality and the systematic destruction of our planet. Our descendants cannot eat, drink or breathe bombs and bullets. We must protect what is sacred and value that which gives us life. ese ancient matriarchal civilizations show us a new view of cultural evolution. Male dominance, violence, war and totalitarianism are not inevitable, eternal truths. A more peaceful, egalitarian way of life structured around partnership rather than dominance is not just a utopian dream, but a sustainable possibility for the future of humanity. If we learn anything from these early partnership societies, let it be the possibility of using technological advances to primarily make life more enjoyable for all, rather than to hoard and destroy. Millions of children need not be condemned to die of hunger every year while trillions of dollars are poured into ever more advanced ways to kill. It takes 40 weeks to create a human life, but only milliseconds to destroy one. Perhaps lasting peace in the human experience is one that combines the mystical wisdom of God and Mother Earth to amend the history of mankind with a new story of humankind. Subscribe at GravitasMag.com | 51

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