TEDxSantaCruz: Riane Eisler - Building A Caring Economy

[@Mutantslugprincess]

Such a marvelous thinker and important figure. Why is she speaking at a TEDx and not an actual TED conference?

[@MamaZShaman]

I am a Santa Cruz Native, a Shaman, Healer and I have strongly supported, and passionately followed your works Riane since finding your book in 1987. After my Grandmother instilled many of the "old ways," and her passing down her copy of Merlin Stone's book, When God Was a Woman, which I was gifted by her in 1976, then finding yours, The Chalice & The Blade, I RECOGNIZE your Heart, Passion, your Wise Woman Wisdom and knowledge! You are a Model Worthy of Imitation! I am so thankful for your wisdom, your books, your ways, and, I have often thought about your Courage! It took courage that many young women of today have never experienced what we encountered even mentioning intuitive intelligences and more! I am so thankful for you! I cherish having Wise Woman like you!

[@mistmaiden38]

Thank you for imparting your wisdom by sharing your passion. I am a dedicated, committed Tūhoe tribeswoman from New Zealand and my eyes are now wide open. Thank you for turning on the light!!

[@KathrynDavison]

This is a beautiful articulation of the work Hazel Henderson has done for the past 30 years or more, as seen in the Calvert Economic indicators, her books "Building a win-win world," etc. Thanks for carrying her flag. Her work has been adopted by third world leaders and intelligent organizations for decades......Much needed shift. The most threatening idea in the world is the FACT that the well-being of the planet is inextricably linked to the well-being of women. Women are EXHAUSTED due to the demands of caring, unpaid work for which there are no raises, titles, or rewards other than the next day of caring. Our whole US economy is organized around the lucrative fields of weapons, pharmaceuticals, and petrochemicals for export.

[@armdendainjeris]

Hazel is amazing absolutely... but Riane's invaluable contribution over many decades and across many disciplines to the project of a 'world that works' stands on its own and I don't really think she's carrying a flag for anyone here...

[@esperanzacastillo17]

Dear TEDx Talks, why is that you don´t have Mrs Eisler on main TED´s web and get her talk properly translated? I can help with the spanish translation, in case you need it, just let me know ; )

[@HelmoPape]

Very well delivered. We will emerge from competition to cooperation as the key economic indicator or we will not be able to sustain society. So caring is front and center as a motive to do work, any kind of work.

[@MamaZShaman]

Yes, both, caring for our children and Mother Earth! I love you! Equal partnership and yet look at where we have happening today, as if so many want to take us backwards? Covering Her up, minimizing Her, reducing Her, many many ways! Mothers at home, & hearth is crucial! Right on, economics is "human invented!"

[@julianfranco3099]

A crucial ted talk. Grateful for its existence

[@Appleriver3]

Hear, hear! Thank you!

[@carolinalluhi985]

Qué maravillosa plática, gracias por su claridad! It is wonderful to listen with so much clarity wath should be the economic priority, thank you for your work Mme Riane!

[@galahadthreepwood]

How about non-debt-based money? That's the first step in ending the current system of servitude in which taxes pay interest on our own currencies to criminal banks..

[@maciej.ratajczak]

I think we're making progress with alternative decentralized currencies, such as cryptocurrencies. I think the key is to allow them to flourish and allow people to have a choice which one they use. May the best currency win, sort of thing.

[@MrThastik]

Not only is combining economic health to the status of women beneficial but it is absolutley necessary. You simply cannot have a long lasting society with one half of humanity oppresing and refusing the participation of the other half in domestic affairs. Crete lived for 1500 years in peace because it was a matrifocal society. Our patriarchal society (US) has been in place for how long?? ( 235 years) and how many wars have we had??

[@AdrianPereira99]

Where can we find the report or recommendation please?

[@NotaFiskal]

falou tudo essa senhora arraza

[@iTsEmS]

very inspiring

[@NewEarth25]

Yes real wealth of world is not financial. We need debt-free money system and universal basic income or what I call basic social grant based on debt-free social currency based on public-private partnership. Social wealth Indicators are first step to long-term economic success. Love the full spectrum economic map and social currency would honor volunteer care giving household work, gender equality and preservation of nature.

[@ShiverHinge]

Less gender gap among Vikings! If they can do it so can the rest of us!

[@TheRealValus]

Has Eisler ever debated anyone? Would she? Or is debate inherently a construct of dominator culture? I'd like to see her vision challenged, and how it holds up against a real-time critique. I recently heard Jordan Peterson make an off-hand, dismissive reference to Marija Gimbutas's theory of matriarchal or partnership societies in the ancient past, which he claims is founded on dubious scholarship. How awesome would it be to see Eisler and Peterson in an open dialogue about "primitive" cultures, social hierarchies, etc.? QUESTION: If those cultures existed and were so idyllic, why did they perish? I know some would say they were internally sound and were compromised by interference from other cultures, but I don't find this dichotomy convincing. It seems to me, there must be some fatal flaw, some lack of realism, and preparedness, in order for a society to be vulnerable to external threats.

[@tobi9466]

some people just aren't made for debates. Doesn't mean their research and work is bad. I say this without knowing if she debates. I just know that Peterson is very good at debates, but "destroying libstards" doesn't make someone smart. Just good at debates.

[@------6ampoems]

i like your idea about her debating jordan peterson .... he does seem blind to the transcendent potential of the ' partnership ' model ( obsessed as he seems to be with hierarchy ... ) ... but your insinuation that the relational styles of historical societies that were engaged in gender - equal models of action & participation - might actually have been those peoples' ' fatal flaw ' i think is a case of blaming the victim ... Obviously the more fundamental sin is the barbarian's raid ( surely just the playing out of the Dominator male ego . )

[@Nico123456781]

read her books, it will answer your question

[@Gwalsummit]

It's time for men to take responsibility for this! At least for the sake of our daughters (and sons).

[@syzygy.levity]

I agreed but I would like to point out that, today male ego is not just a male problem

[@PreciousBoxer]

Take into consideration that compassion isn't physiological. The same with the difference between the spirit of a law and the letter of one. You can't see the spirit, but you can visualize the letter easy enough. People in America, from the viewpoint of someone who has lived on the west coast for a few decades, can be quite quick in judging a book by it's cover, so to speak. Both genders work far too much and "people" don't normally have a enough time to research a thing before coming to a conclusion. We punish pretty painfully in my country too. In some parts far worse than others. Capital punishment just kicked back into gear in Arkansas, and I couldn't be more disappointed. I don't think that would have happened under a Stein administration, or maybe even under a Hillary one, but she refuses to own up to her role in my society today. Just my thoughts. Thanks for the video :-)

[@Avalone20000]

Wow... I just saw a recent video of her with strong Austrian accent but in this video I dont hear an accent at all

[@savvyjd]

Tried to listen but my psuedo-misophonia kicked in. :(

[@IshimweVanessa-z8w]

What wos important of fingers

[@geniemist]

resource based economy (check Venus Project on youtube)

[@farnhoune4237]

I want to hear @jordanpetersons opinion about that

[@sachamm]

This woman is not an economist. GPD measures production. If I eat food, I give farmers jobs, i.e. for at least some goods, production is tied to consumption. It is pretty important to measure how much stuff we can produce, even if we are producing it because of war or disaster, or even consumption. Should we be basing so much of our decision-making on how much we produce? Probably not. But her only advice (tie economic health to the status of women) does not seem practical or useful.

[@kathryn4870]

Your use of "this woman" for an eminent thinker aside, I (and partner for that matter) "produce" clean clothes, clean kitchen counters that don't poison dinner, and all the laborious and time-consuming trappings of a household economy without which quantifiable production in the formal economy would be impossible. The very point is that so much actual existing-in-the-world production is not quantified--and that some of the "production" that is quantified is actually destruction, where a dollar is tallied, but lives and health and well-being lost (forgone production and consumption, if you will) are not.

[@ok29700]

obamanation