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Inner Life: Or, The Politics of Daydreaming
Inner Life Or The Politics of Daydreaming Author:Noel Peattie Theme Stated: Rosalie demanded of me, in the course of an argument, "what kind of society do you want, anyhow?" Over some twenty years this irritant has worked on me almost everyday. The answer I propose is: that the society I desire, and which, on a universalizing principle, I want for all, is a society which protects, promotes, and honors the ... more »inner life. I would further suggest that the demands ? heard from pole to pole, for freedom, justice, security, equality, education, a safe environment, and a better life for the world's children ? are all grounded in, and reach downward to, this elemental human need: silence, solitude, and the right to rule one's own thoughts: the sanity of the inner life. And finally: this inner life, I contend, is an endangered species: assaulted without, and subject to disease within.« less