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- The Great Levelling
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- A Theory of Everything
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- Exchanging Value
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- The Devouring Mother 2.0
- In Search of the Sacred
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- The Death of a Chicken
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I think there’s another factor at work that makes me profoundly uncomfortable: Adolescence shows the entire process of growing up…
Chris – I don’t know anybody who’s become religious. All the statistics on religious attendance have shown a steady decline…
Hi Simon, Intriguing, but you would have noticed that plenty of people are turning back to traditional religions? Toynbee and…
Chris – I haven’t looked at it since it was published. Ask me again in a year 😛
Hi Simon, Haven’t watched the film, but enjoyed your analysis. Yes, where are the Elders in the story to guide…
Justin – when I was living in Britain a number of years ago, there was a law passed to regulate…
Of course you’re right, Simon, that Kevin doesn’t really count as a child because he is a psychopath. I’ve now…
Justin – thanks for that. I hadn’t heard of that novel. I had a quick look at the plot summary.…
A minor point, there was a 2005 novel called We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, where the…
Daniel – correct. This is an issue I dealt with in depth in my recent book. The short answer is…
> In the modern West, the Elder role is filled by teachers, sports coaches, religious Elders, psychologists, counsellors, etc. Is…
Irena – I suspect we’re saying the same thing. But it’s not just a simple matter of suspending disbelief. There…
@Simon I am not sure I quite see the difference. You can put it in archetypal terms, of course. But…
Irena – my point is that the idea of “suspending disbelief” is the wrong way to think about it. The…
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Anonymoose – true. We no longer have any marker of the Child to Orphan transition. Marriage used to be the…