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Many of you know that I’m writing during an extreme health crisis. You can support the work at the links below. Now, on with the gods of war. by Liam Whenever a world crisis emerges, one group is always to… Continue Reading
Monogamy, marriage, coupling, partnering, sex, romance, fidelity, children; tribalism, agriculture and society; what do these have in common? They are intrinsic to our human nature, they bond and bind and create us, and we create them. After the cultural earthquake of 10,000 years ago, the dawn of agriculture – of staying in one place and accruing land, stored food, objects, animals and people – our relationship structures were radically altered.
After 240,000 years of being tribal nomads, moving with the seasons, we plunked down in one place, bound the woman to the house, the house the to King, and we began to inhabit a new and rather uncomfortable dynamic.
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