In message <19990503210910.AAA7464@camail2.harvard.edu>, Wade T.Smith
<wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes
That's more-or-less what Freud said: civilisation is based on control of
the basic drives, and in particular, the need of the older men to
safeguard their own position by controlling the drives of the younger
ones.
>On 05/03/99 17:04 the inimitable Tim Rhodes made this comment ‹ and once
>again struck his hot type straight into the crux of the matter-
>
>>In a world where everything is
>>permitted, we'd be robbed of that most wonderful joy--being naughty!
>
>All society, it sometimes seems to me, is a continuing experiment to
>control adolescence.
-- Robin the politically weak older man