A quotation from Barbusse, Henri:

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That society is badly arranged which forces nearly all women to be servants.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barbusse-henri/62697/

#quote #quotes #quotation #efficiency #feminism #servitude #socialorder #society #women

#Doomster - We are in #collapse & if we refuse to accept this we risk making a bad situation much worse. The massive new infrastructure projects of the so-called #greenenergy transition will be underwater, burnt or lack resources or labour to even complete. Instead, if we accept the reality of #climatebreakdown, we have chance to make amends, save as much of the natural world as possible while we still have relatively intact society w #socialorder to get things done. https://medium.com/@renaeech/responding-to-rebecca-solnits-article-in-the-guardian-on-doomers-a12b0f8106e9

Three main factors prevent people from realizing that the [social] order organizing their lives exists only in their imagination: A) The imagined order is embedded in the material world [...] B) The imagined order shapes our desires [...] C) The imagined order is inter-subjective.

–Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

#Quotes #Books #Society #Sociology #SocialOrder #Culture #Hierarchy

Women's Rights
#WomensRights #women
best known for A Vindication of the #RightsofWoman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack #education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as #rationalbeings and imagines a #socialorder founded on #reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft

We will also deal with the understandings of #ensoulment #originalsin #socialorder #fetus #dignity #lifeofmother and hopefully #patriarchy

Turns out a power-hungry elite around prime minister #ManassehSogavare have sold the #SolomonIslands to #China just to secure their power.
One of the provisions of the highly controversial #security deal is that the government can call in riot police and even military from China to maintain #socialorder.

#TiananmenMassacre and #oppression with Chinese characteristics going on a Pacific Tour. Speaking of selling out, shame on the government of Solomon Islands. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/we-needed-china-deal-to-protect-domestic-security-says-key-solomon-islands-official