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A book by George Gilder written in 1973 - I read it sometime in the early 80's, trying to get some perspective. In short (as I remember it): women always owned all the stuff that matters (birth and the breasts that go with it), and men owned the world, and this was not such a bad balance of power - and there will be hell to pay now that women have been given the world as well.
Gilder is understandably not well regarded among the left-libs - he's up for discussing intelligent design as well. On the other hand, he criticized Barry Goldwater which sorta puts him on the shady side of the street in the generally anti-intellectual United States. Broad strokes here, sorry, not where I am going with this.
Later on some time, must'a been the early 90's, I formed a negative opinion of Camille Paglia - can't remember why ... drinking a lot of beer in those days, reading newspapers in the afternoon, I can almost remember but not quite. Recently I have (finally) begun to read her - 'Break, Blow, Burn', a literary canon of sorts, thin edge of the wedge, and 'Vamps & Tramps', call it a pagan take on sexuality and feminism. And I am changing my opinion, but again, not where I am going.
Lo and behold, in her essay 'No Law in the Arena' I come across Gilder's theory! Stripped of its' moral overtones, simply stated as fact. ... I can't put my finger on it just now, later I will ...
That's it really, I managed to make one little connection, interspersed with reading Coetzee's 'The Life and Times of Michael K' - someone familliar with all of this ground will maybe understand.
As Pynchon says more than once, "Life is all you got!" Sometimes I get hung up on women getting about ten years more of it than me on average. This is a fact too, not mentioned that much and certainly not used as a show-stopping argument in the gender wars. Why is that? It seems to me that ten years of life should be able to be traded for something good?
But there is no real negotiation going on is there? Grant you, from what I've seen of middle-age so far, maybe ten more years of old-age isn't worth much, still, ten years ... maybe you could finally get some perspective and become a fully realized being eh?
Tags: Feminism, George Gilder, Camille Paglia.
A book by George Gilder written in 1973 - I read it sometime in the early 80's, trying to get some perspective. In short (as I remember it): women always owned all the stuff that matters (birth and the breasts that go with it), and men owned the world, and this was not such a bad balance of power - and there will be hell to pay now that women have been given the world as well.Gilder is understandably not well regarded among the left-libs - he's up for discussing intelligent design as well. On the other hand, he criticized Barry Goldwater which sorta puts him on the shady side of the street in the generally anti-intellectual United States. Broad strokes here, sorry, not where I am going with this.
Later on some time, must'a been the early 90's, I formed a negative opinion of Camille Paglia - can't remember why ... drinking a lot of beer in those days, reading newspapers in the afternoon, I can almost remember but not quite. Recently I have (finally) begun to read her - 'Break, Blow, Burn', a literary canon of sorts, thin edge of the wedge, and 'Vamps & Tramps', call it a pagan take on sexuality and feminism. And I am changing my opinion, but again, not where I am going.
Lo and behold, in her essay 'No Law in the Arena' I come across Gilder's theory! Stripped of its' moral overtones, simply stated as fact. ... I can't put my finger on it just now, later I will ...
That's it really, I managed to make one little connection, interspersed with reading Coetzee's 'The Life and Times of Michael K' - someone familliar with all of this ground will maybe understand.
As Pynchon says more than once, "Life is all you got!" Sometimes I get hung up on women getting about ten years more of it than me on average. This is a fact too, not mentioned that much and certainly not used as a show-stopping argument in the gender wars. Why is that? It seems to me that ten years of life should be able to be traded for something good?
But there is no real negotiation going on is there? Grant you, from what I've seen of middle-age so far, maybe ten more years of old-age isn't worth much, still, ten years ... maybe you could finally get some perspective and become a fully realized being eh?Tags: Feminism, George Gilder, Camille Paglia.
Yes, finally got a chance to post somemore but it looks like it's not going to be easy. Love that "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Can a price be put on such words? I'am familiar with the George Gilder that writes the Technology Report and books on expanding bandwith such as "Telecosm" but surely this is a different Gilder.