Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...cultural revolution begun by affluent youth was carried forward by ordinary youth Today, the placards and protests are less evident in the streets, but no matter-- the streets themselves have changed. An intellectually subtle celebration of authenticity, group solidarity, and political direct action has left in its wake (perhaps prepared the way for) a kind of mindless incivility, a pervasive ruthlessness noted by Joan Didion when she observed "the extent to which the toleration of small irritations is no longer a trait much admired in America, the extent to which nonexistent frustration threshold is seen not as psychopathic...
...Volkswagens and other cars driven by the educated elite at Harvard and elsewhere, brings back memories of that era of seeking to maintain the vital distinction between merely dreadful conventional weapons (which needlessly destroyed Dresden and fire-bombed Tokyo) and nuclear weapons capable through radiation as well as direct damage of the long-term destruction of life as we know...
...Tooby goes on from here to an even stranger point: "the use of sociobiology by the European New Right is the direct result of and responsibility of SftP and others who have misrepresented this diverse and complex field." Presumably, he is charging that SftP has drawn political conclusions from the field of sociobiology where none are implied. But, in fact, political conclusions of sociobiology are repeatedly articulated by the advocates of this field. In addition to the original texts, one need only read the various popular accounts and interviews with sociobiologists referred to above. For example, E.O. Wilson has stated...