Word: subconsciouses
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It can be argued rather persuasively that such descriptions are now unconscionable, that fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the...
It's a measure of the ambient racism that we find it so hard to believe that affirmative action may actually be doing something right: ensuring that the best guy gets the job, regardless of that guy's race or sex. Eventually, when the occupational hierarchy is so thoroughly integrated...
Do we have a subconscious desire to decivilize ourselves? Every generation has to rebel against the previous one, but all the good things to rebel against--the establishment of the 50s, the wide-eyed leftist political awareness of the 60s, the polyester disco-life of the 70s, the materialistic success...
"It's so difficult for anyone to get through the process. If there's any tilt away from a woman or a minority it gets magnified in the process," he says. "That's the danger. Some of those very small subconscious tilts still exist."
Still, it's hard to imagine a culture more conducive to feelings of sexual inadequacy than America in the 1990s. Tune in to the soaps. Flip through the magazines. Listen to Oprah. Lurk in the seamier corners of cyberspace. What do you see and hear? An endless succession of young...