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Reader Feedback on "Dirty Pretty Things"
"...there does seem to be a rhythm that women want to be in that has more to do with peaceful coexistence..."
I looked like a girl as a child, the perfect flower child. They carded me for liquor etc. beyond age 35. Charmed? Not by today's standard.
The pecking order point is important, and (at least I believed) in the 70s some of us tried to usurp that with unisex -i.e. men who allow themselves to appear effeminate. I played keyboards with Gary Wright, Peter Frampton's opening act 1974-78. Unfortunately, not many men were as adament to this social liberalism, unisex as I was, and still am. How could they be? Again, the pecking order point is important.
This is at the root of why I hate being a human being. But consider the fact that there are others, other men who are also disillusioned because most men are nauseatingly competitive. You speak of lonliness, and my guess is that most men who masturbate to porn (fantasize about beautiful women they can't have) are doing this primarily because they aren't as competitive as they need to be to find love in today's mean social climate. Comeptition is at the root of a lot of it, I'm sure of that. ("Learn the difference between causes and results." -John Steinbeck) If you bring up this point of competition, most people will wave you away, citing that you're too idealistic. I believe wholeheartedly that humatnity's future depends on progressing to a political state wherein seperate nations are created on separate continents. One with the competitive folks, and the other with the peaceful. International law would dictate that no matter how hard they try, the competitive won't be allowed to infiltrate upon the peaceful continent, society. And of course, they will try.
--PMR
05/17 |
I really like Eric Bogosian's work - great that you're highlighting the book here.
--cla
05/13 |
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