Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 37 | 171 | Accordingly, it is their practice to eschew argument, which could only lead to embarrassment for them, and content themselves with unsubstantiated but often ferociously enunciated assertions, claims and pronouncements. |
| 37 | 172 | These are usually attended by, and embedded within, a panoply of psychological apparatus, such as gesture, expression, tone of voice, attempted intimidation, threats, innuendoes, policing the means of communication, power seizure, managing hiring policies, general oppression, pervasive censorship, character assassination, and so on. |
| 37 | 173 | The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more important, first, that the person finds personal happiness, contentment, reward, fulfillment, and such, in what they are and what they do, and, second, that society supports and reinforces this, that it endorses and approves of what they are and do. |
| 37 | 174 | In short, the person is content, happy, fulfilled, and so on, and the society not only does not object, but praises, supports, admires and approves. |
| 37 | 175 | Now, more to the point. |
| 37 | 176 | Some of Earth, I seem to recall this from Earth, long ago, who understand, apparently, absolutely nothing of these matters, seemed to have a preconceived notion, doubtless politically motivated, that the slave girl is supposed to be a worn, spent, dismal, starved, overworked, unhappy creature, spending her time between beatings in forlorn lamentation. |
| 37 | 177 | That is the way that they liked to think of her, for political reasons, and, indeed, for political reasons, the way they would want her; but it is not the way she is. |
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Accordingly, it is their practice to eschew argument, which could only lead to embarrassment for them, and content themselves with unsubstantiated but often ferociously enunciated assertions, claims and pronouncements.
These are usually attended by, and embedded within, a panoply of psychological apparatus, such as gesture, expression, tone of voice, attempted intimidation, threats, innuendoes, policing the means of communication, power seizure, managing hiring policies, general oppression, pervasive censorship, character assassination, and so on.
The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more important, first, that the person finds personal happiness, contentment, reward, fulfillment, and such, in what they are and what they do, and, second, that society supports and reinforces this, that it endorses and approves of what they are and do.
In short, the person is content, happy, fulfilled, and so on, and the society not only does not object, but praises, supports, admires and approves.
Now, more to the point.
Some of Earth, I seem to recall this from Earth, long ago, who understand, apparently, absolutely nothing of these matters, seemed to have a preconceived notion, doubtless politically motivated, that the slave girl is supposed to be a worn, spent, dismal, starved, overworked, unhappy creature, spending her time between beatings in forlorn lamentation.
That is the way that they liked to think of her, for political reasons, and, indeed, for political reasons, the way they would want her; but it is not the way she is.
- (Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter )