chapter 5

key quotes:

  • “doubled, I walk the street” (pg29)

    • freud’s unheimlich

  • “freedom to and freedom from” (pg 30)

    • rousseau: “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”

    • hobbes: ““life in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

    • freedom from » the beveridge report:

      • liberal politician william beveridge, in 1941, surveyed what kind of Britain ppl wanted to see after the war

      • declared 5 giants on the road to reconstruction:

        1. want - an adequate income for all

        2. disease - access to health care

        3. ignorance - a good education

        4. squalor - adequate housing

        5. idleness - gainful employment

    • brave new world:

      • written in 1941

      • chapter 17

  • feminism is a thing that is trying to operate within a patriarchy, and so, for the most part, fails to work