Wednesday, September 21
Orson Scott Card reviews Freakonomics
"What was the great evil of the old system? People's sexual drives were 'repressed.' This was the great crime of the fifties -- people were so 'repressed.'
"But no one has yet demonstrated a single ill effect from 'repression.' For the simple reason that the other names for 'repression' are words like 'conscience' and 'responsibility' and 'impulse control.' The virtues we link with adulthood."
"But no one has yet demonstrated a single ill effect from 'repression.' For the simple reason that the other names for 'repression' are words like 'conscience' and 'responsibility' and 'impulse control.' The virtues we link with adulthood."
