It's a shock to the crystal-gripping New-Agey Earth-Mother types, who are just convinced that back then everyone lived in peace under a lovely mystical agrarian matriarchy, where everyone was attuned to Gaia, and there was no war or hate or sexism or racism or pollution or whatever. That is, until evil white men with their sexually violent technologically sado-masochistic patriarchal values went and f***ed it all up.
You probably think I'm exaggerating, don't you? ;)
There's never a blunt instrument around when you need one.
"I'll take Sibelius in the Conservatory with the Contra Bassoon."
It's a shock to the crystal-gripping New-Agey Earth-Mother types, who are just convinced that back then everyone lived in peace... You probably think I'm exaggerating, don't you? ;)
Unfortunately, no, I think that's a perfect description of the mindset of the mystically-oriented left. Selective perception is a bugger.
I also find it interesting that their prescription to return to a (fictional) idealized, anarchic past, marked by small groups and descision by consensus is to implement a vast, all-powerful, autocratic state. Seems a bit of a contradiction to me.