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Teaching a bunch of unsophisticated boys that this helpful little fiction is the gospel truth, that "men are driven to rape because their genes tell them to," as if we really knew why some men rape and others don't, as if we were in possession of the complete truth about human motivation, as if we had the information to say authoritatively, X occurs because of Y , is at best naive, at worst arrogant and irresponsible.
How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?
Gripes: 1) Friedman's belief in global economics and American-style capitalism's ability to solve the world's ills reads more like cheerleading than analysis: "[O]nly a New York Times foreign affairs columnist could write a book so relentlessly upbeat about the USA's prospects in an ever more tightly integrated world without being accused of unsophisticated boosterism" (David J. Lynch, USA Today ). 2) Some of his theories have already been disproved: His "Golden Arches" theory of international relations held that no two countries that both had a McDonald's have ever gone to war.
A poor unsophisticated person may be called a ranchero or ranchera, implying he or she is from the countryside, the sticks, and a hick.
Her monologue has some funny, dislocating observations: the unsophisticated ways of her folks juxtaposed against her newly acquired yuppie tastes, her need to sneak around like a teen-ager when a boyfriend comes to stay and, especially, her dislocation when, after taking her brother to the hospital for chemotherapy, she finds herself suddenly playing his part, as if, she says, she's at a square dance.
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