Friday, January 13, 2012

Pop psych ...

... Iron Lady Falls to Anna Quindlen Doctrine: Virginia Postrel - Bloomberg. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The problem ... is that grafted on to what could be an affecting story of greatness and decline is an invidious, and gratuitous, moral. Call it the Gospel According to Anna Quindlen, the writer and columnist who enshrined its maxims in a commencement speech she wrote in 1999 and eventually turned into the best-selling book “A Short Guide to a Happy Life.” “No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time in the office,” she instructed. “Don’t ever forget the words my father sent me on a postcard last year: ‘If you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.’”

1 comment:

  1. Quite apart from any problems with the movies reconciling themselves to women with power, they have a hard time with the larger view. Domestic matters are easier to turn into a movie than matters of state are.

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