[lit-ideas] Re: Ten most harmful books...
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:11:45 -0400
I wonder what would make Rachel Carson toxic -- and Ralph Nader unsafe --
enough to justify including them on this peculiar list. Why, even John
Stuart Mill, Friedan, DeBeauvoir and B.F. Skinner made the list, not to
mention whatshisname who wrote the Origin of the Species. Including him as a
runner-up really helps characterize the crazy people who put together this
list.
I especially like having Dewey's philosophy of education included as one of
the ten most harmful. Harmful! Not questionable or hard-to-read (he
certainly was that!), but harmful. And Nader's book which, more than
anything else I can think of, almost single-handedly improved the safety of
automobiles and saved lives! How can you twist and turn what he did to draw
the conclusion that his was one of the most harmful books in the last two
centuries.
I'm reduced to a state of wonder.
Stan Spiegel
in the state of Maine
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From: "Judy Evans" <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ten most harmful books...
> Yikes indeed! did you see _The Authoritarian Personality_'s on the
> list?!! I can see mad raving rightwingers might not like the others
> (clearly Keynes is Satan) but..
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> Judy
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> Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 2:11:26 AM, Ursula Stange wrote:
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> US> Yikes...
> US> http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591
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