literacy’s mysogyny

“Any culture that adopts an alphabet goes through a period of demonstrable madness where they denigrate women.” —Leonard Shlain

Read that twice. Read this twice:

1) Compare the feminine right-brained oral teachings of Socrates, Buddha, and Jesus with the masculine creeds that evolved when their spoken words were committed to writing.

2) Compare the feminine right-brained oral teachings of Socrates, Buddha, and Jesus with the masculine creeds that evolved when their spoken words were committed to writing.

Then ponder Leonard Shlain’s question,

“How did god go from being a woman to a man?”

The Alphabet vs The Goddess Lecture