The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
What he notes is that as soon as we shifted to a phonetic alphabet and because how it's processed in the brain in a more linear fashion it may have reduced the role of women and image within culture by rewiring the brain.
He points to the Ten Commandments as the first published document in a phonetic alphabet and its prohibition against image and its reduction of the status of women.
Today with our movement toward the use of more images we are seeing a return of balance which includes instead of excluding a "feminine" view of the world.
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