Wednesday, 27 July 2022

WE ARE DEPENDENT CREATURES

'The liberal theory of the independent individual as the basic unit of society is full of exceptions....It would be fairer to say that dependence is our default state, and self-sufficiency the aberration. Our lives begin and (frequently) end in states of near total dependence, ad much of the middle is marked by periods of need.'
Leah Libresco Sargeant in Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, p.173.