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I like to think of myself as knowledgeable -- but, then again, who doesn't? I just took a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory and, uncharacteristically, I did not even finish the article. My "bullshit" detector when off very early as I was reading it... Off Topic: I saw some sailing ships in the clouds today, and there were human faces, too! And the leaves in the trees formed recognizable objects, too! Must be that purple Owsley I took years ago... I wonder what Strauss and Howe were on? I'd like to point out that the "mad scientists" began their screwing with the human mind several hundred years ago. It's those damned printing presses! Any Tom, Dick, or Harry could publish a book! But it has become even worse, today, with all the bloggers. Anyway, leaving aside the Greek philosophers (who had their ideas on child rearing) and the Dark Ages, when no-one really knows what went on because those folks didn't seem to write much, I'd say that Rousseau was the first serious "mad scientist". You know his history, right? A half-dozen offspring (actually, 4 or 5) that he forced his wife to give up for adoption because he was (paraphrasing) "too busy describing perfect child rearing" to actually rear any children himself? Then there were the "alienists". You know about them, right? Masturbatory insanity? And one of them was named Richard Crap-ebbing-downstream or something. Boy was HE a mad scientist! They claim that for fun he peed on files, or some such. Then there was Kellogg... and Graham -- both flakes and crackers! Oh, yeah -- Oppenheimer. “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Then, of course, there was Kinsey. From gall wasps to sexual perverts. Did you know he actually TALKED to a REAL child molester, one who experimented on boys to find out how many times in succession they could orgasm? I mean, YOUNG boys! Oh, and boy, could they orgasm! No refractory period, you see. My record was... No, I won't go there... Next came Spock. He wasn't so mad, but, boy -- hug, hug, hug your kids! Shower them with affection! Let them eat and sleep whenever they wanted to! Yeah, that's the way to raise self-sufficient, disciplined kids, right? Worked for you, didn't it? ;-) Since then there haven't been that many mad scientists to mention, aside from -- relevant to us -- those mad sexologists. And then there are the feminazis... Or could I be wrong? M. Step back. Look. Step back further. Look again. Step back further. Look AGAIN. Step back even further and you say, "What the fuck are we doing to ourselves as a species! |