AtDTDA (37) 1046/47"I'd've let you do the cooking"

[Monte Davis]

Robin sez:
 
> *Born out of a need to justify exploitation, "The Age of 
> Reason" so ably parodied in Mason & Dixon was more like "The Age of 
> Rationalization." Not simply out of its need to explain away "the 
> supernatural" but also in the sense of narrowing options until the 
> line to the abattoir singles up, nice and smooth.

Which was also the line away from routine childhood death by dysentery etc,
slavery,
hereditary nobility, and so many other nostalgic features. Not to fault the
efficiency of the Modern Abbatoir, but somehow there are far more of us than
in those sweet gracious holistic harmonious pre-Enlightenment times.