Friday, March 25, 2016

The perfect housewife



That's Kim Kardashian (in case you're living on a different planet) whose mural was taken down because it was deemed offensive. And the other picture is of the stunningly beautiful Adriana Lima (who was Ford's Brzail supermodel at the age of fifteen, Wikipedia helpfully informs us). 

'The perfect housewife has been replaced on advertising hoardings by...there is more money to be made in fashion, leisure and sex [than durable goods].'

--Matthew Taylor.   

Children once existed solely to inherit a man's genes, his moral code and his name. This was taken fro granted among the aristocracy, but merchants, craftsmen and peasants also bought into the idea; it became the norm. That's all gone now. There's nothing for my son to inherit. I have no craft to teach him. By the time he grows up, the rules I live by will be meaningless; the world will be completely different. If a man accepts this then his life is reduced to nothing more than the sum of his own experience; past and future generations mean nothing to him. That's how we live now. For a man to bring a child into this world now is meaningless.'

--M. Houellebcq.

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