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Title: The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness by Howard S. Schwartz ISBN: 0-7658-0537-5 Publisher: Transaction Pub Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Adrift in a Sea of "P.C.": A Cautionary Tale for our Times.
Comment: The Primordial Female, primitive, enigmatic, and always ready to provide succor when the outside world turns against us, is the stuff of our sub-conscious desire. Freud saw her as the primitive mother, with whom we all want to be reunited. Judy Chicago paints her as a goddess, "...her center dark and molten; all her energy emanates from her bloody womb and core...a sacred vessel." Lao Tzu calls her "the Great Female...gossamer and seemingly insubstantial" who represents the gate between heaven and earth. She is a dark, warm, soft, pink velvet envelope, inviting us to cast off the sharp edges of life and climb inside for a soothing nap. She loves us soft and long. She wants us to forget about conflict, and surrender into her peaceful calm. However, she is a fantasy; and if we take her to be real, we are prevented from working through the challenges encountered in the outside world-where we require the male principle to inform and direct our journeys. From this comes the need for balance, reconciliation and compromise in our lives-not always an easy journey!
In the newest, paperback edition of "Revolt of the Primitive", Howard S. Schwartz takes us on a journey into the world of the "Politically Correct"-a land not so much intended to punish some because of their gender, sexual preference, race or ethnicity-as the domain of the primitive mother, where all who have not been loved in the past will be loved more to compensate, and where those who have been loved in the past will be hated for having stolen that love. An outgrowth of the 1960's and 1970's "socio-cultural revolution" taught by and intended for middle-class, college-educated people, the United States of America now twists in the winds generated by the Cyclops-like child of this experiment. Like a modern-day Odysseus, Schwartz warns us of the shrill song of feminist sirens, identifying with the Primordial Female and luring us to our destruction on the rocks of insanity. We come to see, as if through-a-mirror-darkly, what lies behind women having their legs shaved by inebriated Navy pilots at Tailhook, teenagers in Littleton engaging in a one-way running gun battle in the school halls, and educated administrators in academe suffocating in their corseted rules and by-laws as they write "gender-less" rules for the arcane--like a modern-day Scarlet O'Hara who-"...will just think about it, tomorrow." Schwartz wants us to think about it today, before the rocks destroy the fragile vessel of our nation's democracy.
The new edition-looking less like a Chemistry text and more like a good read on an airline flight-contains a very beautiful postcard of the author's journey into the social revolution nirvana in the 60's and 70's. Post 9/11 Schwartz warns us that the soft recesses of the primitive, primordial mother-goddess will not shield us from the destruction of bin Ladens-who live in the world of sharp swords, jet-fueled 727 missiles and a liking for all things yang-male. Until the Primordial Goddess envelopes Osama and his bad-boys, somebody in the nation will have to wake up, crawl out of the envelope, and find whatever yang is still available to strike at least one plane with a sharp edge-to remind us that sometimes, even revolutions need to find a mid-point on an axis.
Rating: 3
Summary: Real Problems, Psychobable analysis
Comment: The subtitle, An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness, makes a lot of promises that aren't kept. Schwartz correctly identifies some huge problems facing men in today's society, and at Universities. He calls feminazism a "sexist holy war" against men. Unfortunately he rapidly gets bogged down into Freudian psychobabble that makes us wonder if he's writing from the iron mines on Uranus. His "roots" are a strange interpretation of the worst of Freudian nonsense about a mythical "primordial mother" complex. Has he ever actually men a real human being. For reasons never really explained he blames PC attitudes on daughters who resent evil fathers. He beats around the bushes a lot, talking about some real problems facing men today, but I didn't find any value in the psychobabble. Still it was an interesting perspective, worth scanning through.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Tidy Treatment
Comment: This book is worth the time and money. It moves fast and is easy to follow becasue it is so interesting all the time, so it would make good reading for students. The case is nicely laid out. Women and feminism are the objects and sources of impossible moralities, impossible burdens and impossible logic. That has been observed before, and many have noted that feminism is ever the more central to all things today, especially political correctness. However, I know of no other sustained discussion of these and related ideas. Schwartz's final chapter on feminism is a page turner. His implication that all hope now rides with woman, along with his diagnosis of political correctness as infantile narcissistic attachment to the mother are exceptionally worth thinking about these days. Schwartz uses very interesting examples at times, especially in his analysis of the attempt to feminize and PC-ise the workplace, also in his analysis of the controversy over women in combat--a study of the irrational that is based on statements from our highest level military and state officials. One has a lot to chew on after seeing how PC logic, which is the logic of the ad hominem argument, is winning the day on this issue. ...
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