Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
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8
279
To be sure, one is taught, as well, not to ask questions, not to notice that views and values may have origins, histories, and purposes.
8
280
But perhaps they do.
8
281
Surely it was not difficult to detect the work of militant factions on my former world, intending to advance their own interests by distorting, denying, diminishing, and even nullifying nature.
8
282
Surely there was an agenda behind the project of cultivating suspicion and hostility toward men in females and striving to devirilize males, so that the 'true male', the male to be societally approved, would be the least like a man.
8
283
But surely one must sympathize with those who would commit themselves to so ambitious a project, to so arduous an endeavor! How brave and noble they are! It is not easy to do away with nature.
8
284
It is not an easy thing to destroy, even if one wishes earnestly to do so.
8
285
Nature, unlike self-serving political programs, is not the product of ideologically motivated committees; who would seize control of education and the means of communication, to bend innocent, trusting children, and even unwitting populations, to their views; nature is an obstacle to such programs; it is not contrived to serve the interests of a particular group on a particular afternoon.
To be sure, one is taught, as well, not to ask questions, not to notice that views and values may have origins, histories, and purposes.
But perhaps they do.
Surely it was not difficult to detect the work of militant factions on my former world, intending to advance their own interests by distorting, denying, diminishing, and even nullifying nature.
Surely there was an agenda behind the project of cultivating suspicion and hostility toward men in females and striving to devirilize males, so that the 'true male', the male to be societally approved, would be the least like a man.
But surely one must sympathize with those who would commit themselves to so ambitious a project, to so arduous an endeavor! How brave and noble they are! It is not easy to do away with nature.
It is not an easy thing to destroy, even if one wishes earnestly to do so.
Nature, unlike self-serving political programs, is not the product of ideologically motivated committees; who would seize control of education and the means of communication, to bend innocent, trusting children, and even unwitting populations, to their views; nature is an obstacle to such programs; it is not contrived to serve the interests of a particular group on a particular afternoon.
- (Plunder of Gor, Chapter )