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Freedom Essay 9

 

“This is the real liberation of women”

 

A man with handful of barbed-wire and a woman weeping with a bunch flowers approach each other by cartoonist Michael Leunig

Men and Women, War and Peace, by Michael Leunig

 

This explanation brings about the true liberation of women and the reconciliation of the sexes, which is truly extraordinary.

 

In the following video, scientist Dr Anna Fitzgerald describes how Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings desperately needed reconciling understanding to the relationship between men and womenan issue that has been a source of great trauma and suffering for humankind.

The actual explanation of how this wonderful reconciliation is achieved is presented in F. Essay 26 & 27.

 

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This presentation also appears as Video 9 in the Main Videos towards the top of our homepage at www.humancondition.com.

 

The Transcript of this video

 

(This video was filmed in January 2017)

 

I came across these explanations 15 years ago whilst I was in the middle of finishing my PhD in biological sciences in New ZealandI’m now a Science Program Strategist, I coordinate large government-funded molecular science collaborations in Australia.

When I heard this explanation of our human behaviour all those years ago, its power to explain the world was just SO totally accountable, it captivated meso I moved to Australia to help promote these critically important understandings.

As a woman, this explanation was both very arresting and confronting, because it’s fearlessly honest about humans’ contradictory nature. It makes sense of what it means to be a womanour nurturing instincts and compassion, as well as our neuroses and vanity and emotionalityit goes so far as to make sense of why we have developed our feminist streak, to counter the baffling and oppressive egocentricity of men. But what’s really astonishing is that we can now understand why this egocentricity in men was actually necessary.

Until we could explain the human condition we couldn’t acknowledge the differences between men and women because it only led to prejudices, so all we could ask for, or in fact even demand, was equality. But because Griffith’s work establishes the equal worth or goodness of all humans we can now understand the different roles that men and women have traditionally played in the human journey and this is actually the unlocking point, this is what brings about deep empathy for each other, it heals the divide. As a scientist, I find the evolutionary biology underpinning the explanation of these roles absolutely fascinating.

There’s a powerful quote about women’s plight in Griffith’s book FREEDOM [see par. 798] from the South African writer Olive Schreiner and this encapsulates every woman’s hope and that is ‘to be born a woman’ ‘in the future’ is ‘not to be born branded’, but to be valued, loved for their real selfand that’s essentially what can happen now that the human condition has been explained. This explanation brings about the true liberation of women and the reconciliation of the sexes, which is truly extraordinary.

I really implore everyone, especially women to look into this because to be able to understand why men and women have behaved the way they have behaved was nothing short of life-changing for me.

 

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How men and women are reconciled by the understanding of the human condition is explained in F. Essay 26 and F. Essay 27, and in chapter 8:11B of FREEDOM.

Also, watch Jeremy Griffith present the breakthrough redeeming explanation of the human condition in THE Interview; for a fuller explanation read chapter 3 of FREEDOM; or for a summary presentation of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation watch Video/​F. Essay 3.

 

Discussion or comment on this email is welcomedsee below.

 

 

 

These essays were created in 2017-2024 by Jeremy Griffith, Damon Isherwood, Fiona
Cullen-Ward, Brony FitzGerald & Lee Jones of the Sydney WTM Centre. All filming and
editing of the videos was carried out by Sydney WTM members James Press & Tess Watson
during 2017-2024. Other members of the Sydney WTM Centre are responsible for the
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