1. @aoscott has meaty thoughtful piece about "The Death of Adulthood in American Culture".I have some issues with it: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/magazine/the-death-of-adulthood-in-american-culture.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0 …
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@HeerJeet: Rhetoric of "we are not men our father's were" has been used to shore up male privilege since at least time of Homer.”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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7. Fear of the decline of patriarchy is inextricably from patriarchy: it's an essential rhetorical weapon by which authority is shored up.
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8. Of course, Scott is well aware that he's talking about long-running thing, and strong feature of piece goes back to 18th century
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@HeerJeet Plus the Homeric heroes had Nestor around to remind them of that fact.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet or simply as a rhetorical device: the concept of “returning a polity to its founding virtues” abounds in Machiavelli’s Livy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet made-up prelapsarian scarecrows make for cheap & easy comparisons (o tempora, o mores).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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