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...Perhaps Cantor might have been true to his theme had he named this book "Justifying My Behavior During the Vietnam War." Or even better: "Why Mean Conservatives Won't Allow Peace...
...Cantor, of course, has learned from the "Free Love" years that a socialist society of intellectuals will answer the questions of morality more quickly than one which is market-based. Exactly what moral changes would accompany a socialist movement are either conveniently ignored or buried in the mystic writing code Cantor used to assemble this grammatical disaster...
...Giving Birth to One's Own Mother does convey the despondency which defines the young people of the '80s and '90s. Must we continue to toil through timeless struggles, as described by Nietzsche and Freud, because the search for solutions has waned? Cantor's book attempts to answer this question. He cites television and a lack of intellectual conviction as the wellspring of our complacency...
According to Cantor, the stagnation of our generation will only end when we use the critical techniques of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to supersede the artificial (and ultimately harmful) euphoria to which our society has fallen prey...
...reader can rise above Cantor's straying logic and prose, they will notice the intricate cultural detail he uses to make these points. His prosaic touches add some realistic flavor to the book and give one a sense of what our generation lacks in comparison to past eras...