Monday, October 29, 2007

The Question of Power
To talk about tolerance, there is a need to talk about more basic behavior of power. The assumption that power is method, but reality is a social, biological interaction. From the social stand the conflict between individual and collective behavior. Individually power is to pas to a next generation, the conflict arise since sometimes is not just individual but the collective. The idea of individual sacrifice for the common good, is not a exception, but more regular event, but depends in the common value and the situation where the challenge happen.
Second level is the immediate, the family. Because the behavior is about the next generation, female was reduce to subservient, and method to achieve the status is about information control, access to the information was reduce to power.
For a period of 4,000 years there where periods the subjugation was broken. But Christianity is an institution inherent a empire, and the need for status control was manifested not just a political power, but knowledge the fact was the transform Roman Empire into a Christian Empire and close of the Academy and Lyceum in Athens, set precedent to control.
Islam with their own version of Empire and control challenge Christian power structure, because the failure of Latin Kingdom Christianity turn into self into corruption, the reformation was revolution and also reactionary reaction to power. Where the reactionary aspect of the revolution was to a more patriarchal dominance.
But, because Islam challenge the creditability of Christian power is minimize and to explain the failure open themselves to the pagan Knowledge of Socrates and Aristotle. The industrial revolution braked the power of the small communities and the cities created the anonymous individuals. The power of patriarchal force through Napoleon was transform the citizen and the new structure was the state. But the individual structure existed because the control of female through sex, the pill open the power, now we are in cross roads, how to created a relationship between equals, where individual and collective need to come to terms.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Fall
The fall is period when push before the winter slowdown everything, for Western Societies is period of reflection, just take a moment feel the wind getting cooler and change colors, in the north, and reflect the long year to come.