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- Read 'the manipulated man' by esther vilar
- Remember to read "the manipulated man" by esther vilar.
- * The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins ;
* Human, too human, by Frederick Nietzsche ;
* The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris ;
* La Femme est le propre de l'homme, by Rolf Schappi ;
* Biologie de la mort, by Frederik Revah ;
* The Manipulated Man, by Esther Vilar ;
- I understand why Wendy wrote a critical review, the views of the author are not in line with hers. I can't comment on the book itself as I haven't read it, but at least based on the concluding section of the article posted, I can't find anything I wouldn't disagree with. Both women and men are hurt by certain aspects of the system, I had thought this was already a generally accepted fact since Esther Vilar's The Manipulated Man became popular. I find the conclusions of the author rather down to earth and sensible, nothing revolutionary.
- I don't claim there is any equivalence, and it's by no means false. There is a famous book The Manipulated Man written by a feminist Esther Vilar. As long as the society puts all the blame on men (in todays parlance, 'white men') we don't get any inch closer to the solution.
- > essentially a very discursive...
I thought so too. But the topic is interesting. Mathematicians especially brag that what they do is valuable in proportion to its uselessness. Personally, I like spending time in useless things. Recently I was learning APL which is a totally useless endeavor for me. But then I look at other things I do and I cannot say that they are useful either. Then there is curiosity. There is no end to things to be curious about. I’m curious about so many things that I could never reach the end of curiosness with one topic. Curiousness or temptation comes at first as a very strong motivation but the next day the curiousness stregth diminishes and a new and stronger curiousness appears and attracts me so I go towards it forgetting the thing I was curious about the day before. Curiousness is also a question. We are curious means we are searching the answer for a question we asked or was asked to us. Something we saw or heard can show itself to us as a question. Then we go looking for its answer. But all answers raise more questions then they answer. So there is an infinite chain of questions. Curiosity is infinite. In her book The Manipulated Man Esther Vilar [1] writes that general curiosity for curiosities sake is a male attribute; a woman is curious only about things that have direct effect on her. This seems like a more sane and intelligent world view. That must be the reason all examples given in original article are men.
