I'd love to believe that the global crisis we're facing is all capitalism's fault.

[zazen]

11. sorry if I was patronizing then!

I hope to read those articles sometime.

The only thing I "published" re her work--and I admire her a great deal--was a blog/journal critique here, from a feminist perspective. I tend to think there's a cultural feminist romanticization (or was--maybe she's changed) of post-peak life. As a radical feminist, I tend to notice what happens in frontier-ish traditional societies where there's no easy transportation, more traditional roles, and less capacity to rely on technologies to free us from a lot of biological limitations. That hasn't gone well for women, anywhere, anytime. . . and most of our (1st world) social freedoms have been concomitant industrial growth, for a reason. When energy is much more scarce, we will be harnessed again right along with the oxen if we're not careful (with immigrants and brown-skinned people perhaps more at risk if racism continues to flare).

So this rosy, we'll all get in touch with our inner goddess stuff in this equalitarian la-la- land. No. We need to be very mindful in the long descent of building as much protection into the system as possible, if it's possible. It infuriates me that a good percentage of 50% of the human race will feel entitled once again to own and predate upon women, but it will happen if we don't keep educating people. When any thing breaks down, the first thing that happens is more prostitution or rape. All of those studies with guys saying they would if they thought they could get away with it? Well, collapse means they will think they can get away with it. All the more reason for a resilient community.