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Our Future: A Fork in the Road (Pt. 1)

12 min readJun 1, 2025

The future is bright. And by that I mean it’s shiny, it’s reflective, it’s full of blue-lit faces and the blinding flash of explosions.

That said, and although it looks the most probable from where we’re standing in the West, there is still another road we could take.

Context

Innovation in a Dominator culture

In her book The Chalice and The Blade, Riane Eisler points out that there are essentially two types of culture.

  1. The culture of the Chalice: a partnership culture, seeking equality and human flourishing, worshipping life and the life-giving principles.
  2. The culture of the Blade: a dominator culture, seeking destruction, violence, domination and disempowerment of anything and everything that gets in the way of service to a strongman elite sitting ‘at the top’ of society. It worships death and destructive principles.

Eisler argues with convincing archeological evidence that the ideology of the dominator culture swept across Europe between 4500 BCE and 2500BCE, displacing a plethora of partnership cultures. These cultures were wiped out, truncated, and/or converted to dominator cultures through invasion, destruction and myth alteration.

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Leo Greenwood
Leo Greenwood

Written by Leo Greenwood

The Universe thinks about itself in interesting ways from here. Philosopher, author, in love with the miracle of existence. leogreenwood.com

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