Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Philosophical questions boil down to the conflict between the welfare state and the free market. He may be right--man would be more civilized and peaceful if everything were equitable and planned. But Cantor harps too long on the forces which suppress man's progress...
Even worse, Cantor latches onto Nietzsche's concept that humanity's focus has shifted from God to the community. Cantor adds no contemporary wisdom to the ideas of this late German philosopher--he just parades them as a grand "I told you so" rebuff to the media and other cultural evils of modern society...
...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...