Thursday, January 19, 2012

A response to a great blog by Claudia Gold. MD

http://claudiamgoldmd.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-our-society-prejudiced-against.html


Dr Gold, picking up on your "aim to call attention to the way we as a society approach problems involving children and families", I come back to a Jungian point of view and his (non-gender) Feminine principle, i.e., what boils down to relatedness. What stokes our current moral vacuum is the extent to which those qualities of empathy, caring, affection, attention, attachment -- what boils down to love -- doesn't count because it cannot be quantified. All that soft stuff that just happens to shape our brains that in turn shape this off-kilter culture of ours. By extension, it's worth considering the extent to which the nature of mothering impacts Mother Nature and thus the future of humanity on planet Earth.

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