Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jaynes thinks that man developed the inner voices to solve problems. Without consciousness, he was guided mostly by habit. Thus new situations produced stress, which resulted in unconscious decisions in the form of inner, audible commands. These voices-a side effect of language and a primitive form of will-enabled man to keep at his tasks longer. Man's brain gradually evolved to accommodate the voices. He became "bicameral": the left side of the brain was for speech,* and the right hemisphere produced the inner commands. Eventually, the voices were attributed to kings and gods, thus becoming remarkable instruments...
...heyday in the 1960s, the separatist sect known as the "Black Muslims" appeared to many as a sinister force for racial hostility. Their leader, Elijah Muhammad, preached a weird doctrine that the race of "white devils" had been created from blacks, and that Allah had assumed bodily form in the person of W.D. Fard, a mysterious black itinerant who preached in Detroit until he vanished in 1934. The great annual event was "Savior's Day," the cult's Christmas, which celebrated the advent of Fard...
...make it work or break it up. Oh, I thought, how like a man, how unfair, how unequal, how true." One major reason for the hostility to Marabel Morgan is the belief that she preaches a return to those days of unfairness and unequality. Marriage itself, runs the extreme form of this argument, is a centuries-old exploitative prison from which women are only now beginning to escape-with help from the Pill, legal abortion, equal rights laws and a chance for a fair share of the job market...
...Circle, "Tina Klein of Los Angeles points out, "tells stories of women doing things in the outside world or how they have turned their hobbies into moneymaking projects." Meanwhile, from the centers of expertise and progress, women mainly get refracted images of Gloria Steinem ("Sex is now primarily a form of communication") or R.D. Laing (blaming most of a civilization's discontents and even its wars on the crimes of the family). Says Martha Bardack, a Los Angeles housewife who gave up a part-time job to care for her son Noah, 2: "Society makes it very hard...
...daughters. Some of this experience has gone into Woman at Home (Doubleday; $6.95). Like the housewives she often speaks to and for, she is no antifeminist, but she objects sharply to the rhetoric of the women's movement-at least in its more extreme forms. It has done considerable harm, she feels, by lumping housework and child care together and dismissing them as something that women must escape in order to achieve "selfhood." It has also deluded women about both the pleasures and the problems of commercial work and about the ease of being a responsible parent and pursuing...