'There have always been wars and there always will be'. This statement is not just incidental to the patriarchal mode. It is a structural truth.

For within all organisational structures some have to give orders, some to take orders; some to command, some to obey. Therefore there must inevitably and not just incidentally be power structures to determine the structure: struggles between individuals who feel themselves constrained and thwarted; between groups; between blocs.

So we have bigger and bigger organisations, with bigger and better harnessing of Nature to their power needs; with bigger and better power struggles and bigger and better weapons for bigger and better wars. 'It's inevitable'.

And always Power, when it becomes too gross, has been challenged with Power, ie. it is always Patriarchy that has challenged Patriarchy.

'You can't disinvent the weapons of modern war' etc. etc. etc. No, not till you disinvent the patriarchal mode: organising, controlling and conquering Nature, human nature, human kind; and assert instead the feminist mode, where life is lived from our inner centres, and so is a network, a living organism responding to all its parts.

This is is not to sat that, men having failed, women must take over.

If WOMAN had taken supremacy over MAN, and had maintained this supremacy over many thousands of years of social evolution,

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