Sometimes in the road through life we are blinded by things we think are important. In my history class right now we are reading a book called The Chalice and the Blade. It is a story about our history as humans and how we have grown away from our nature. Through time we have always put our energy on things that we thought were important at the time. In prehistory (recorded history) we see that females were integral to society and religion. We worshiped the life bringing powers of the womb and showed a shared or equal value of man and woman. They understood that life was the greatest miracle and that it was a joint effort between man and woman.

Agriculture became a mainstream way to harvest food and it centralized those who used to hunt and gather into cities. The religion that focused once on the harvest of a successful crop and and respect of women and mother nature changed to the religion of war. The brute force of man and his power and assertiveness was needed to protect the materialism that agriculture had spawned. Now that Religion turned into a way to pray for success at war instead of one of one of human kinds basic needs. After men became the center of our religion we as a society began to take slaves and take what was not theirs as they lost interest in the importance of equality between the sexes and between comrades. This change in history translates to this capitalistic mentality on the United States today. What is mine is mine, I earned it, I deserve it, you cant have it. It still amazes me how selfish some people can be. In our busy world obsessed with time we lose sight of what is really important.

At the end of the day all we have left are family and friends……