On Jul 15, 2004, at 7:43 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
> This summer's remake of the "Stepford Wives" doesn't have anything
> coherent to say about gender politics: Men are the oppressors? Women
> are the oppressors? Or maybe just Glenn Close? But it does play to the
> fantasy (((OR FEAR))), more widespread than I'd realized, that if you
> were to rip off the face of the person sitting in the next cubicle,
> you'd find nothing but circuit boards underneath.
hear hear. or perhaps not a circuit board, but a well-thumbed and poorly read NIV bible.
speaking of which, ehrenreich continues: "Societies throughout history have recognized the hazards of groupthink and made arrangements to guard against it. The shaman, the wise woman and similar figures all represent institutionalized outlets for alternative points of view."
yes, or the classical prophets, like isaiah, jeremiah, amos . . . or perhaps even -- dare i say it? -- jesus.
j