The Primal Urge
Brian W. Aldiss
In the long tide of
history, the world-famous reticence of the British is a very recent
development. Less than a hundred years old in fact. The rakish ways of
the regency, the roistering Restoration and the downright rowdyism of
the Tudor era are older and more firmly rooted traditions among these
tough island people that Victorian middle-class morality or latter day
neo-Freudianism.
It needed only a gadget – a mechanical marvel –
to make the British dispense with polite fol-de-rol and come right out
with the view that sex does exist. Once having admitted this, the
English Government, always fiercely partisan in their gloriously
muddle-headed fashion, refused to permit anybody to be without sex.
Anyone could have told them this would make trouble.
For
if the British have a proud (if somewhat obscure) history of joyous
licentiousness, they have an equally proud history of stubborn refusal
to permit any invasion of their private lives. Thus the struggle began.
Although not titanic in proportions (it is, after all, a quite smal
island) its results were hilarious and its effects far-reaching, indeed,
world-wide - and that too was part of a proud British tradition.
history, the world-famous reticence of the British is a very recent
development. Less than a hundred years old in fact. The rakish ways of
the regency, the roistering Restoration and the downright rowdyism of
the Tudor era are older and more firmly rooted traditions among these
tough island people that Victorian middle-class morality or latter day
neo-Freudianism.
It needed only a gadget – a mechanical marvel –
to make the British dispense with polite fol-de-rol and come right out
with the view that sex does exist. Once having admitted this, the
English Government, always fiercely partisan in their gloriously
muddle-headed fashion, refused to permit anybody to be without sex.
Anyone could have told them this would make trouble.
For
if the British have a proud (if somewhat obscure) history of joyous
licentiousness, they have an equally proud history of stubborn refusal
to permit any invasion of their private lives. Thus the struggle began.
Although not titanic in proportions (it is, after all, a quite smal
island) its results were hilarious and its effects far-reaching, indeed,
world-wide - and that too was part of a proud British tradition.
ASIN: B007YVM0ME
კატეგორია:
წელი:
2012
გამოცემა:
Kindle
გამომცემლობა:
The Friday Project
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
225
ISBN 10:
0007482078
ISBN 13:
9780007482078
ფაილი:
EPUB, 194 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2012
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