Stephen Pinker on Stones' 'Midnight Rambler', 60's lib hypocrisy
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Date: April 10th, 2014 8:48 PM Author: insane confused gay wizard
In his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker discusses the song at length as an illustration of his thesis that the 1960s counterculture "pushed against" the Civilizing Process (identified by Norbert Elias ), which, Pinker argues, had been reducing violence over many centuries, and that the counterculture's "glorification of dissoluteness shaded into indulgence of violence.... Personal violence was sometimes celebrated in song, as if it were just another form of antiestablishment protest." He says that "Midnight Rambler" "acted out a rape-murder by the Boston Strangler..." and he sees this as an example of how in the 1960s counterculture "the control of women's sexuality was seen as a perquisite" of men.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Rambler#Controversy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R_jNCqhWk0
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