Sublime

The failure of the Great Promise, aside from industrialism’s essential economic contradictions, was built into the industrial system by its two main psychological premises: (1) that the aim of life is happiness, that is, maximum pleasure, defined as the satisfaction of any desire or subjective need a person may feel (radical hedonism); (2) that ego

women have internalized the idea that we must do it all, while also taking on the brunt of housework, childcare, and the emotional and mental labor of managing a household full of different people with varying needs, all at our own expense.

In Orman’s calculus, all prior economistic metaphors are collapsed: life is not just a business. Rather, money is alive—a life force in itself.

There you have it. You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. Mother-love with them was not a brute passion, a mere “instinct,” a

For that they had agreed to marry us, though the marrying part of it was a concession to our prejudices rather than theirs.

And there, as years passed, this wonder-woman bore child after child, five of them—all girls.

began a new race.

But there are men somewhere—didn't you see the babies?"

sex distinctions?"