---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote:
Re "Tolstoy gave the right advice.":
Possibly. But, as I said, it's the hypocrisy of Tolstoy that grates with me.
Om s3, which hypocrisy bothers you more? Tolstoy doing the serf girls?
Maharishi and college girls? Mao philandering? One quote from the long march
was that girls were proud as having a badge in having venereal disease because
that meant they got it from Mao. People at the time probably knew about Tolstoy
and Mao or possibly just close aids and staffers. . Were they so different in
crafting persona and large movements?
The English conservative journalist Malcolm Muggeridge (a true British
eccentric but a first-rate broadcaster) was a big fan of Tolstoy. One time in
the 1960s he gave a talk attacking sexual promiscuity. To be fair to Muggeridge
he did mention in the talk that as his audience were all young they couldn't
accept or comprehend what he was saying. They would only understand him when
they matured. An acquaintance of his later claimed that Muggeridge said to him
at the time that if he had been a student in those heady sixties days he'd have
slept with all the girls he could!
To me the key is that you should always be true to what you are; who you are;
where you're at. And as the sexual drive is one of the strongest impulses
pushing us along we have a choice:
1) go with the flow, in which case you can draw on your sex energy to motivate
you in life's struggle
or 2) resist the sex impulse, in which case you'll spend your life labouring
*against* your own body energies, as well as having to cope with the problems
life throws at you.
I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code.
