@stillwatersart

After reading everyone's responses about matriarchy and patriarchy I have been pondering the question of what would make the best kind of society. I discussed the topic with my husband and he is of the opinion that war and strife have been the way of humankind from the beginning and it is just a fact of life. I stubbornly maintained that if everyone thinks that way then there is no hope. One has to believe that something is possible in order to make the changes to bring it about.

In my last post on the topic, I found evidence that there were peaceful societies in the past.
https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@stillwatersart/late-post-to-answer-the-question-what-is-matriarchy-what-do-you-think-a-matriarchal-society-would-look-like-ecotrain-question-of

I was then curious as to whether there are modern societies that are peaceful. A google search led me to this list of societies that seem to have a handle on peaceful living. https://cas.uab.edu/peacefulsocieties/
**List of peaceful societies is never completely finished or accurate. However, social scientists have convincingly described at least 25 societies around the world in which there is very little internal violence or external warfare. Generalizations are difficult to make accurately, except that most of the time these peaceful societies successfully promote harmony, gentleness, and kindness toward others as much as they devalue conflict, aggressiveness, and violence.

@likedeeler

The German Anarchist "Bible"

When General Westmoreland, commander of the US troops in Vietnam, threatened to bomb the Vietcong back to stone-age, he had no idea that, if he was actually able to do so, he might do them a favor.
Archaeology has shown that life in some stone-age settlements was not exactly The Flintstones.

Excavations in Catal Hüyük, Turkey provide evidence of a neolithical society which was prosperous, without state and government but egalitarian, without poor and rich but with wealth for everybody, no social distinction and discrimination based on gender; and suddenly the term stone-age communism doesn´t sound so unattractive any more! 😘

While the original excavator, James Mellaart, became kind of infatuated with the idea of a matriarchy in Catal Hüyük, claiming that finds of female figurines representing the Mother Goddess were proof of his theory, scientists recently dispelled that as a myth and claimed that Catal Hüyük was a truely egalitarian society on all levels, no social classes, no clerics, no gender discrimination, no rulers, no ruled.
Of course Heide Göttner-Abendroth, the grand old lady of matriarchy research, became also involved in this clash of scientific egos, and she and her tribe started to create an 'alternative scientific community'.

@hopehuggs

Now that we have a better understanding of patriarchy and matriarchy, what is your ideal societal structure?

So, I want to get more talkative and get what is in my head out my mouth and not necessarily by writing!

My answer is set to myself this challenge where I have 2 Talk for 3 Minutes or more in 1 Take, with 0 Script.

Who knows what will come out my mouth haha!

Okay, I have to agree with @likedeeler and @solarsupermama, a patriarchal or matriarchal society won't do, there needs to be a balance, so we need anarchy and clans!

A clan could be set up as somewhere that has one leader, or group of advisors, however, is agreed, but somewhere where everyone has a role to play and they know what that role is.

The groups could be set up around religions, beliefs or ideals. I think that there is scope for everyone to find a group of like-minded people.

I see self-sufficient off-the-grid groups as the ideal answer, who once they have got themselves formed and grounded and where they need to be, then they can reach out to other groups to help them too, should that be the decision of the group.

@sagescrub

In the past two weeks #ecoTrain passengers were asked to answer What is a Patriarchy? and What is a Matriarchy?

This week @clara-andriessen poses the question: Now that we have a better understanding of patriarchy and matriarchy, what is your ideal societal structure?

I am glad that this question is prompting me to think about my ideal societal structure because it allows me to tap into my own personal idealism.

Like spinning magnets that can attract and then push, attract and repel. If the feminine and masculine were always pulling each other together they would get stuck and never be able to separate. If they were always pushing each other further apart they could never come together.

I've noticed some talk lately on steemit about embracing and accepting our shadows. I think I am noticing it out of synchronicity and because it is a recurring theme in my thoughts and life lately. But I also think its a greater trend because our culture has not been taught to embrace our shadow selves and there is a growing realization that embracing our shadows are important in accepting the whole.