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Andrew Solomon on his book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity"

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    1. NeilMacCallister  12/17/2012 02:33 AM Report

      And, please, Mr. Solomon, ..kindly excuse me if I misspell verisimilitude, or regale, ..seriously, who really cares in this "The Road" world of today??

    2. NeilMacCallister  12/17/2012 02:28 AM Report

      May I ask, "sharkwithburnedoutheadlamp"? ..what do you mean by all your meanderings below???

      I don't think many readers can appreciate, or even guess the meaning of, the many trenchant verisimilatudes you so generously regail us with!!!

      Without refering to someone else, on some other website, ..can you just express a simple statement YOURSELF????

      ..not that I care about your idiot socialist masturbations..

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/04/2012 03:25 AM Report

      "Strengthen the ecosphere of kindness."

      Perhaps his freaky, family form can do that.

      Perhaps David Brooks would like to comment?

    4. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/04/2012 03:18 AM Report

      "There's anti-abortion sentiment in the disability community. There's anti-abortion sentiment in the rape community.

      When I thought about it a lot, I realized that I would find it disturbing if someone were now to develop a test that would allow mothers to find out whether their children would be gay, and if I discovered that most mothers were aborting those children, it would be painful to me to know that.

      So I understand why it's painful for people who are in other stigmatized categories to know that there are medical advances that are being used to construct a world in which people like them no longer exist. Some of them feel that being anti-abortion activists is a way of justifying their own existence."

      http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=164958401

      This makes it tough--the apple far from the tree is thrown away.

    5. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/04/2012 03:10 AM Report

      "And she said: Can you tell me how to love my daughter more? She said because every time I look at her, I think about what happened to me (rape), and it gets in the way. Can you tell me how to love my daughter more? And, unfortunately, it was only afterwards that I thought how much love there was in that question itself."

      http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=164958401

      In many ways this also reflects divorce especially if the child looks like the ex-spouse and the divorce was contentious.

    6. NeilMacCallister  12/02/2012 02:04 AM Report

      I've read that Mr. Solomon's college work (B.A. and Masters) is in 'English'. Good for you, Mr. Solomon,

      I'll bet you write a wonderful essay.

      "Far from the Tree??" .. can you help me understand why a society engendered and advanced from rootstock BEGGING their children to beware the temptations of a two-faced tyrannous "big-government" overlord society would vote for exactly THAT -- twice in a row???????

      It is so DEPRESSING to watch these children sell their lives away for a few pennies!!!

      Why have they DONE that???

      ***

      As far as YOUR family situation is concerned, ..you say you encompass "5 parents, and 4 children"????

      Have you done the math on that????

      How is you family's "working class" EVER going to be able to support your family's "retirement class"???

      America as a whole should not follow you down that ridiculous path, ..should we???

    7. Ellen_Dibble  11/29/2012 01:47 PM Report

      What did you make of Eric Kandel's statement that this lays a foundation for a 21st century psychological bill of rights? -- as close as I can recall, as read from Kandel's review. I have thought that the 21st century is going to require a shift from scapegoating (Solomon's word) and that religion might be the vehicle for this. As I see it, when human survival depended on competition with other humans, on tribal cohesion, and destroying the opposition, then religion was the glue that kept diverse groups coherent, especially because terms of faith escape reason and can't be argued with. However, with human survival now depending on working together globally, I'm thinking that particular concept of competition, and of religion, and that tradition of defining the "other," or "scapegoating," may be an important item on the agenda for a "psychological bill of rights." There's the tiger caught by the tail, but if we don't pay attention, the consequences could be vile and violent in unprecedented ways.

    8. REMant  11/29/2012 12:33 PM Report

      There's no question but that ppl should not blame those who cannot help themselves for their appearance or behavior, but you wouldn't want to extend this reasoning to everyone, tho like Kandel and co he clearly does, because it would mean we'd be so diverse we'd never have anything to teach anyone. It's genuinely funny to see liberals bouncing back and forth between claims that everyone should be alike, and no one should, and they should ask themselves just what they mean by tolerance. I believe I said when he appeared on the Brain series, that I would attribute at least some of his problem less to an overbearing father, than to an overweening mother. I have no idea what an "ecosphere of kindness" might be.