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Old 12th April 2007, 04:46 AM   #53 (permalink)
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Re: RAH Reading Group - Puppet Masters

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Originally Posted by MG
2 - Could you outlinethe 'life-boat rules' theme? It's ringing bells but...
In general, I agree with the 'there can only be one boss' thing. If more than one person is involved and a task needs to be accomplished; someone has to take charge. Maybe if we had some context around this one too?
I always took the phrase to mean "women and children first":
cf The Notebooks of LL:
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As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basis is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal.
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