Reed wrote:
>But, even as you an I wouldn't live in BNW...don't we as a culture try
>to preserve innocence into ever and ever longer periods of life. We
>invent childhood, and then adolecence, and then college. The tend
>seems to be an attempt to alleviate frustration, suffering...to offer
>a longer period of innocence.
>
>It strikes me that this general trend (do you agree with my
>perception?) is indicative that, while we might recognize our own
>taste for the perverse, we try to make the lives of our children less
>so.
I doubt most people around today are even aware that the concept of <childhood> is a very recent development in our culture.
-Prof. Tim