Whatever Class And Race Divergences

Great Writers Leave Us Not Just Their Works, But A Way Of Looking At Things.

Growing Up Human Is Uniquely A Matter Of Social Relations Rather Than Biology. What We Learn From Connections Within The Family Takes The Place Of Instincts That Program The Behavior Of Animals; Which Raises The Question, How Good Are These Connections?

Power Is Not A Thing To Be Owned. But If You Believe That It Is Such A Thing, Losing It Becomes A Possibility To Fear. That Fear, I Think, Is One Reason For The Dark Projections Of A Catastrophic Future That Are So Widespread, In Our Dual Society. The Present Powerful, Being Committed To Polarization, Expect That Any New Deal Will Overturn The One That Set Them In Authority; That The Last Shall Be First And The First Last, Role Reversal Everywhere, Men As Slaves, Women As Masters, In A Revolution Of Contradiction.

Today, What Most People Live In, Or With, Is The Less-than-nuclear Family. Working Fathers Are Absent From Home During Most Of The Day, The Children Are Schooled Outside It, And Practically All Women Who Work For Money Must Go Outside To Earn Their Living.

We Are In A Double Bind. We Are Expected To Feel Inferior Not Only As Women, But Because We Are Old.