[Peace-discuss] Eating the Irish

[Laurie Solomon]

I can agree with this and have certainly advocated the “guppy theory” of child rearing which involves eating one’s young and is close to Swift’s notion.  It is nice to be in such good company.





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      Paul Krugman | Eating the Irish 
      Paul Krugman, The New York Times 
      Paul Krugman: 'What we need now is another Jonathan Swift. Most people know Swift as the author of 'Gulliver's Travels.' But recent events have me thinking of his 1729 essay 'A Modest Proposal,' in which he observed the dire poverty of the Irish, and offered a solution: sell the children as food.' 
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