tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1119001832297190907..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Will the Pandemic Cure us of Inequality?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-27766212565171615322020-04-15T09:49:55.544-07:002020-04-15T09:49:55.544-07:00"Think about it: she is following Plato, as i..."Think about it: she is following Plato, as it happens, in recommending that children be taken from their mothers so that their mothers can have better career opportunities. If you imagine that women would ever stand for this, you need to think again. As for the flagrant misogyny that is lurking in the proposal, the truth is, that radical feminism is stealth misogyny." Some women would. Women who like Lewis's ideas.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5848321883891905702020-04-14T13:06:40.312-07:002020-04-14T13:06:40.312-07:00I think Voltaire should have a say in this matter,...I think Voltaire should have a say in this matter, just as he did when that lunatic, Rousseau, sent him a copy of the "Discourse of the Origin of Inequality."<br /><br />"I have received, sir, your new book against the human race, and I thank you for it. You will please people by your manner of telling them the truth about themselves, but you will not alter them. The horrors of that human society--from which in our feebleness and ignorance we expect so many consolations--have never been painted in more striking colors: no one has ever been so witty as you are in trying to turn us into brutes: to read your book makes one long to go about all fours. Since, however, it is now some sixty years since I gave up the practice, I feel that it is unfortunately impossible for me to resume it: I leave this natural habit to those more fit for it than are you and I. Nor can I set sail to discover the aborigines of Canada, in the first place because my ill-health ties me to the side of the greatest doctor [1] in Europe, and I should not find the same professional assistance among the Missouris: and secondly because war is going on in that country, and the example of the civilized nations has made the barbarians almost as wicked as we are ourselves. I must confine myself to being a peaceful savage in the retreat I have chosen--close to your country, where you yourself should be."<br /><br />Voltaire > Rousseau<br />Civilization > Barbarism<br /><br />UbuMaccabeenoreply@blogger.com