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...Spock seems to imply that it is necessary for us all to be neurotic. He considers the Supreme Court's guidelines on obscenity- works appealing to prurience and utterly lacking in social significance- too limited to curb pornography and media violence effectively...
...Spock begins his cursory analysis of the Vietnam War with the Soc Rel bestseller On aggression by Konrad Lorenz. With Lorenz's help, he traces aggression in animals from ring doves to humans, while asking the question. "Are we better or worse than animals?" (The animals, of course are unavailable for comment.) Vietnam is reduced to displacement of aggression- we are an aggressive people who project aggression onto minority religions and races, here the Vietnamese. Such a reductionism view explores the racism of the war, but not the economics...
...introduction to his section on sex roles, Spock says that he is afraid of losing his female supporters because of his views on sex rotes. He is right to be afraid. His argument, that men and women are temperamentally different and should adopt different social roles, nostalgically echoes Don Juan, Uncle Tom, and white supremacist paternalizing. Spock says, "I believe women are designed in their deepest instants to get more pleasure out of life when they are not aggressive. To put it another way. I think that when women are encouraged to be competitive too many of them become disagreeable...
PUBLICITY about Decent and Indecent has centered on the liberal Spock's "reactionary" views on obscenity. He thinks television, movies, and books which brutalize sex, display immorality and violence are destructive to society because. "they assault the carefully constructed inhibitions and sublimations of sexuality and violence that are normal for all human beings and that are essential in the foundation of civilization...
...Spock's solution is that judges and juries be given the power to ban works which they find shocking or revolting so that children, his primary concern, will learn healthier attitudes toward sex and learn to sublimate aggression. Spock's faith in the judicial system, bolstered by his acquittal of conspiracy to encourage draft resistance, probably prompted the idea to make judges and juries art critics...