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by JimC » Thu Dec 17, 2015 9:19 pm
Śiva wrote:Interesting tidbit from it, saturated in Freudian Oedipal stuff, but still pretty good:
Thus, the family has a dual political function:
1. It reproduces itself by crippling people sexually. By maintaining the patriarchal family, it also preserves sexual repression and its results: sexual disturbances, neuroses, psychoses, sexual crimes.
2. It produces the authority-fearing, life-fearing vassal, and thus constantly creates new possibilities whereby a handful of men in power can rules the masses.
In this way, the family assumes, in the eyes of conservatives, its special importance as a bulwark of the social order they affirm. This is why it is one of the most strongly defended positions in conservative sexology. For it "maintains the state and the people"--in the reactionary sense. Therefore, evaluating the family may serve us as a yardstick for judging the general nature of social orders.
Blinkered by marxist ideology.
And not "Seth marxist", but the real deal...
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by Jason » Thu Dec 17, 2015 9:21 pm
Indeed. Early days of the sexual revolution things were still very Marxist.
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by JimC » Thu Dec 17, 2015 9:22 pm
Śiva wrote:Indeed. Early days of the sexual revolution things were still very Marxist.
Quite rigid.
And not in a good way...
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by Brian Peacock » Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:39 am
Brian Peacock wrote:Brian Peacock wrote:Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss. This time I'm going to get to the end, I really am.
Page 70. And relax....
Bah! It's no use - I really cannot see the point. I won't be going back there again.
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by Sean Hayden » Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:57 am
I've never heard of it. It must be a weird one.
I'm reading some drawing references e.g. sketchbook for the artist.
The latest fad is a poverty social. Every woman must wear calico,
and every man his old clothes. In addition each is fined 25 cents if
he or she does not have a patch on his or her clothing. If these
parties become a regular thing, says an exchange, won't there be
a good chance for newspaper men to shine?
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by Tero » Sat Jan 09, 2016 5:28 pm
Reading John Cleese's autobiography. Warning: the BBC part in it is mostly the pre-Python era.
Anyway, Cleese and Graham are long time writing partners. They think almost as one. I've often wondered how to say this in words, but here it is: "There would be a moment when a really funny, wild or zany idea popped into our heads and we would botherupt." One idea, two heads. The putting down words was then just routine and skill.
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by Jason » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:55 pm
The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer
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by JimC » Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:34 pm
A collection of Inspector Rebus short stories by Ian Rankin.
Anyone else into detective fiction?
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by Clinton Huxley » Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:30 am
Consequences of the Heart by Peter Cunningham. A decades long love triangle with murder, D-Day, rapacious priests and import/export regulations. Very good.
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by JimC » Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:14 pm
Clinton Huxley wrote:The Plague by Albert Camus.
If he was writing now he'd call it Ebola...
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by Tero » Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:47 pm
Tackling Dead Souls once more. Got 2/3 thru once. The short stories are easy.
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by Brian Peacock » Fri Feb 26, 2016 8:56 pm
I'm mostly reading Tero these days.
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by JimC » Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:49 am
Brian Peacock wrote:I'm mostly reading Tero these days.
Post-modernism at its confusing best!
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by rainbow » Mon Feb 29, 2016 11:20 am
JimC wrote:Brian Peacock wrote:I'm mostly reading Tero these days.
Post-modernism at its confusing best!
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