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The Cultural
Conservative's Antidote to Propaganda About Boys and Violence
The
mass media just don't get it. They echo whatever extremist propaganda
is fed them by Harvard's disgraced School of Medicine, for instance, which
engineered such mirages as the William Pollack "study" and, more
recently, another report on boys and violence. The Aug. 13 (2001)
issue of U.S. News & World Report cites a JAMA study
which ties date-battery of teenage girls to several "high risk"
behaviors. The last word goes to Harvard sachem Jay Silverman:
"There is a historical entitlement of boys and men to control the
behavior of their female partners, and we are dealing with that
legacy."
Really? But the study
doesn't show that guys clobber girls: it shows that sexually active, drug-
and alcohol-fueled dating is often accompanied by physical abuse; and in
turn, this surely hints that kinky sex habits destroy the self-respect of
both participants... whence the resort to mind-numbing intoxicants.
What's going on here? Why
does the ultra-feminist (often anti-woman) machine consider the issue of boys and
violence congenital to the male sex, yet balk at notions of chivalry, manly
virtue, and chaste honor? Is the sexual revolution's legacy of
promiscuity and bestiality so important to conserve? |
ISBN: 0-9676054-4-X
paperback, 120 pages +
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"The recent epidemic of high
school shootings has elicited panic, anger, terror, bewilderment,
political posturing, and academic theorizing in more or less equal
proportions. Some voices are far more sincere than others, but the
uproar as a whole suffocates critical details. Everybody
wants something done, and done now.
"The contributors to this
volume, however, offer no such quick fix. Each of them sees the
present crisis involving our boys and homicidal violence as a mere symptom
of an illness bred in our culture's marrow. Though their essays do
not diagnose the disease in quite the same way, each analysis is
consistent with the others. Radical feminism inciting girls to
promiscuity, leaving boys without the traditional motive to behave like
gentlemen... the 'relevance' craze of the sixties draining the curriculum
of everything that called students to model their fragile identities
around visions and convictions centuries old... the dizzy acceleration of
time in electronic entertainment sending out the message that only shock
effects are impressive... these are circumstances which we cannot soon set
straight. In every case, the basic yearning of the human soul for
something higher-- something otherworldly--is perverted by the apparent
comfort and ease of modern living: quick sensual pleasure, instant
identity, amusement without investment. The problem goes to the very
roots of how we view our heart's true desire.
"The contributors are all scholars who have taught at the college
level in some capacity. Some are now devoting most of their efforts
to rearing a family or to writing about issues whose interest
extends far beyond the narrow limits of academic specialization.
Though their essays are footnoted, their work is not clinical in tone, but
highly readable and full of conviction. In fact, their heavy
reliance upon the Western literary tradition is probably this volume's
most extraordinary feature. They argue, not with statistics and
jargon, but with the two millennia of human experience available to us all
through classic poets, novelists, and philosophers; and they do not wield
this tradition with a careerist's diplomatic anxiety over the demands of
political correctness, but with a deep respect for of its power to magnify
perennial human truths." from the back cover |
contributors: Helen A.
Andretta, Ph.D. Gianna DiRoberti, Ph.D. John Harris, Ph.D. Peter Singleton,
Ph.D. For several excerpts,
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