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Out of 109 articles, only 9 were women. And, the 9 women who were included were writing about pretty banal ideas. One woman thought everything was pointless. If you have to include a few women in your book, might as well pick suitably unintelligent ones.
But, Brockman felt that it WAS important to include some jaw-dropping crap from male thinkers. One guy said single women with children should not be allowed to be single. They should be required to marry. His rationale? There's a 0.7 correlation between single parenthood and criminality. He never heard that correlation is not causation, apparently. On top of that, it never occurred to him that the correlation was actually between poverty and criminality. Because he is apparently so stupid, that he doesn't know that female single parents are exceedingly poor.
Another gem that Brockman felt it important to include was the idea of ending schools for children. This would be great for the Libertarian dream - an illiterate peon class!
Yet another article sang the praises of unfettered capitalism. Even though the idea has been amply and exhaustively proven to be a very bad idea. Even though Adam Smith warned against it. Even though trickle down is a pipe dream.
Oh, and both an introduction and an entry by Steven Pinker - a real gem of a sexist thinker.
There were a few decent articles, of course. You can't fill an entire book with propaganda and bad ideas. Personally, I will avoid anything edited by Brockman in the future.
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