Around 12,000 years ago agriculture changed human history forever and ushered in the social institutions of patriarchy, domination culture and private property. This new discussion group will explore how our modern world has been shaped by the development and impact of patriarchy:

• Power and conflict: has patriarchy been a cause of war, crime, and social inequality?
• Religion: has patriarchy been a cause of organised religion?
• Class politics: has patriarchy been a cause and effect of slavery, feudalism, capitalism and socialism?
• Identity politics: has patriarchy been challenged by social movements for civil rights, gay rights and women’s rights?
• The future: patriarchy and gender ideology, transhumanism, artificial intelligence and space travel.
• Our environment: is patriarchy bound up with human supremacism, domination and dominion over our environment and non-human creatures, as opposed to stewardship of or cohabitation with our environment and non-human creatures?

Meetings will be a mix of pre-planned topics and discussions based on history and on current news. This is a collaborative discussion group that welcomes all points of view.