>> At that time, his focus on parental attachment and on children having both parents seemed bizarrely conservative for someone who is quite leftist (his son, the journalist Aaron Maté, is known for his leftist politics as well).
This made me grin, probably a little ironically. I find it interesting- probably because my own life trajectory of the last few years has recapitulated it- how judging something "bizarrely conservative" to be emanating from someone "quite leftist" can turn on a dime.
Progressivism seems to have rejected- among the many, many other things it has rejected- a notion that anything at all is "essential." A few years ago, I'd have said, "well, at least progressives and conservatives can unite in wanting to beat the crap out of someone who molested a kid." Within the past year, the assertion of the validity of the identity of the "minor-attracted person" is already starting to make its way into not only discourse but even some (currently still rare) educational material.
That children need parents and that they are the prime movers of child development has, for 99% of human history, been an essential concept. You could get Vikings and Christians, Trojans and Athenians, Romans and Carthaginians to agree.
As interesting as your discussion of sacredness is a discussion of the existence or nonexistence of first things.
>> At that time, his focus on parental attachment and on children having both parents seemed bizarrely conservative for someone who is quite leftist (his son, the journalist Aaron Maté, is known for his leftist politics as well).
This made me grin, probably a little ironically. I find it interesting- probably because my own life trajectory of the last few years has recapitulated it- how judging something "bizarrely conservative" to be emanating from someone "quite leftist" can turn on a dime.
Progressivism seems to have rejected- among the many, many other things it has rejected- a notion that anything at all is "essential." A few years ago, I'd have said, "well, at least progressives and conservatives can unite in wanting to beat the crap out of someone who molested a kid." Within the past year, the assertion of the validity of the identity of the "minor-attracted person" is already starting to make its way into not only discourse but even some (currently still rare) educational material.
That children need parents and that they are the prime movers of child development has, for 99% of human history, been an essential concept. You could get Vikings and Christians, Trojans and Athenians, Romans and Carthaginians to agree.
As interesting as your discussion of sacredness is a discussion of the existence or nonexistence of first things.