A Thoughtful Comment on Paradise Lost

Wow!!

The great economist FA Hayek was also eloquent on this point - that Leftism, far from being Progressive, was actually atavistic - a longing for an imagined, but never real, past of tribe and clan. That Leftism was a reaction to the "extended economy" of impersonal transactions that permitted (a) the division of labor and (b) the access to resources that all advanced economies were built on, be it Babylon or America. He thought Aristotle was a twit on this point since one of Aristotles "mots" was that a democracy could only be as large as the distance a man's voice could carry. Hayek said that Aristotle was making this observation while living in Athens whose wealth and power was created by a trading system that extended throughout the Mediterranean basin.

Why tribe and clan looks so good to Leftists is another mystery - who wants to be ruled by an ignorant old man?

There is a leading journal of education whose name escapes me. But several years ago, there was a preview of a course that waa to be taught at Stanford by the feminists and awaited with much anticipation - a study of the Apache. And then.......course cancelled. Why? The good professors discovered that the Apache were a male-dominatd warrior society where women kept the camp, cooked the food, had the babies and the men spent their days training and fighting!! :-) Back to the drawing board!!

Greg Richards