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The Battle of Spotsylvania and my library

 “I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.”

        U S Grant, 1864, during the battle of Spotsylvania.

        Also me, 2017, in my messy library.

Camille Paglia on secular millenarianism

Current educational codes, tracking liberal-left, are perpetuating illusions about sex and gender. The basic leftist premise, descending from Marxism, is that all problems in human life stem from an unjust society and that corrections and fine-tunings of that social mechanism will eventually bring utopia. Progressives have unquestioned faith in the perfectibility of mankind.

The horrors and atrocities of history have been edited out of primary and secondary education except where they can be blamed on racism, sexism, and imperialism -- toxins embedded in oppressive outside structures that must be smashed and remade. But the real problem resides in human nature, which religion as well as great art sees as eternally torn by a war between the forces of darkness and light.

        from Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism