Germans Blame Hollywood, Satanism for Massacre

[Michael Pugliese]

...Yes.  And it's interesting to step  back and see a very important
trend in human social life over the  past 20,000 years: families
are becoming a less and less  important social institution.  Many  of
the social functions fulfilled by  families in hunting & gathering
societies--religion, education,  medical care, child care, work
training--have been partially or  completely usurped by other
social institutions in industrialized  societies.  It's pretty
clear we can't blame Stalin or Hitler  for that.

Miles

   See, "Haven In A Heartless World, " by Christpher Lasch and, "The Policing 
of Families, " by Jacques Donzelot. A crititique of Lasch'es left conservatism 
was penned by Stephanie Engel in Socialist Review after the Culture of 
Narcissism became a mass market paperback bestseller. Jimmy Carter invited 
Lasch and Daniel Bell to Camp David just before his, "Malise, " speech in '78.
(Anyone read Benjamin Barber's recent one on Clinton? I skimmed a little 
yesterday. The sections on Scocpol (damn I can never remember how to spell 
Theda's name!) et. al. and others to Clinton's left trying to push the White 
House towards a class based socdem set of policy positions are worth a look.)
Michael Pugliese