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To: radioman
Paternalism requires that all adults submit to a 'father knows best' ruler. You may call that survival but I call it tyranny.

So by substitution, childish societies require some form of tyranny to survive. My point exactly. The Eloi were tyrannized by the very people who supposedly served them. Just as the overgrown children of our culture are -- and the rest of us with them -- by the paternal institutions created to afford them a perpetual childhood.

61 posted on 09/29/2007 2:15:37 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: IronJack

Can’t argue that point!


63 posted on 09/29/2007 3:59:31 PM PDT by radioman
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