The structural shift described here is also a shift in visibility: what sustains life becomes less visible, while what organizes it becomes named as power.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit - when I read "what organizes life becomes power" - I can't agree - I think of the feminine as the organizers and when women with power to wield could not be silenced or removed, limited acknowledgement was created and their power came with shackles created for men's comfort
the shift to settled life made survival systems invisible and turned coordination into authority - the organizing labor did not disappear, just busy - reassigned, obscured, and then claimed by those positioned closest to emerging power structures - in many early societies, that meant men became the visible face of systems women already created and were already maintaining
I don't see men as the organizers because they pulled apart community - they drew boundaries, ownership, exclusion, inclusion, and a caste system we all still live under today - if that's organization, it's poorly done - they simply supplanted male on top and held the line
and in the end, science shows true lineage comes from the female - i wonder which man that scared enough to start building the society we have today - that would be amazing to know
The structural shift described here is also a shift in visibility: what sustains life becomes less visible, while what organizes it becomes named as power.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit - when I read "what organizes life becomes power" - I can't agree - I think of the feminine as the organizers and when women with power to wield could not be silenced or removed, limited acknowledgement was created and their power came with shackles created for men's comfort
the shift to settled life made survival systems invisible and turned coordination into authority - the organizing labor did not disappear, just busy - reassigned, obscured, and then claimed by those positioned closest to emerging power structures - in many early societies, that meant men became the visible face of systems women already created and were already maintaining
I don't see men as the organizers because they pulled apart community - they drew boundaries, ownership, exclusion, inclusion, and a caste system we all still live under today - if that's organization, it's poorly done - they simply supplanted male on top and held the line
and in the end, science shows true lineage comes from the female - i wonder which man that scared enough to start building the society we have today - that would be amazing to know
What disappears isn’t the organizing itself,
but its visibility.
It keeps holding things together,
even when no one names it anymore.