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| MoreLater | The book corrects many incorrect claims by "Media Conservatives" about marriage, families, history, and better times in the past, with citations to actual peer reviewed research. Helpful ... until the "tax the rich so that bureaucrats can help the poor" stuff. Tested programs, yes, and testing new programs at observable scale, yes ... but assuming we already know that ''hypothetical'' national-scale programs will work as desired, rather than develop another raft of "self-licking ice-cream-cones". Attributing lack of public support for new programs to "... demoralization by a massive campaign ..." (p176) is a perjorative assumption, and we will remain stuck in perjoratives ("left" and "right") until we make the difficult effort to find common ground and expand it. The risk is that our "opponents" might change "our" minds, instead of the outcome we have already decided that we want. |
The Way We Really Are
Stephanie Coontz, 1997 / Tigard Lib 306.85 COO
A sequel to The Way We Never Were wikipedia . . . author website
The book corrects many incorrect claims by "Media Conservatives" about marriage, families, history, and better times in the past, with citations to actual peer reviewed research. Helpful ... until the "tax the rich so that bureaucrats can help the poor" stuff. Tested programs, yes, and testing new programs at observable scale, yes ... but assuming we already know that hypothetical national-scale programs will work as desired, rather than develop another raft of "self-licking ice-cream-cones".
Attributing lack of public support for new programs to "... demoralization by a massive campaign ..." (p176) is a perjorative assumption, and we will remain stuck in perjoratives ("left" and "right") until we make the difficult effort to find common ground and expand it. The risk is that our "opponents" might change "our" minds, instead of the outcome we have already decided that we want.