Thursday, 15 March 2018

An apple a day




Subject: An apple a day.


In the biblical representation of Creation, Adam and Eve were created equal to live in the garden of Paradise. God the creator had but a single rule, not to eat fruit from the tree of life
But Satan, in the form of a snake tempted Eve to eat the fruit and thereupon Eve tempted Adam to also eat the fruit and so both were cast out from paradise.
Do we take it from this story that women are seductresses and men the seduced. Do we comprehend that the beauty of women is in their seductive nature and the weakness of men is in their inability to cope with this ongoing seduction. Is Harvey Weinstein the monster he is made out to be or merely someone unable to detach himself from the saga of the Creation.
I doubt any of you will answer this thorny fundamental question. When God created man and woman his design lead to an unpalatable conclusion. Take away the confusion of cultural modelling with norms so wide as to barely represent in any but the most fundamental way one cultural practice from another. We of course subscribe to only one format which is representative of an evolved western set of norms.
Are we not dealing with what we see in the rest of the Primate kingdom, a desire to keep the species going at all costs and, if it takes the wiles of Eve to lure Adam away from the easy life, so be it.

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