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Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'

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Is the Family One of the Greatest Obstacles to Technocratice?

The family is a place which can't be entirely controlled from outside. wells, as i have mentioned, was in favour of the dissolution of the family. He didn't particularly want any father to be, to have any relationship to any particular children. From he concluded that the solution was to have no formal arrangements between men and women at all. And then, if you had no formal arrangements, all that would subsist was great love and and passion. When that disappeared, well, then you just dissolved the relationship and everything, you went and found another relationship. That was his view of how things should be done.

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