Henry Miller was a pioneer and a revolutionary in his field, his sexual rants are a large part of the Tropic of Cancer which is constantly hailed by critic. Ken, you dolt.

Excellent points, E Archer.

Ken, you are ignorant, atleast as it pertains to this topic. What you have taken from Miller's work (assuming you've even completely read any of his works) is very narrow, superficial and distorted, which is much more indicative of you than it is of Miller or his work. What he's talking about in this quote, basically, is ideology and the indoctrination thereof. Take the words "anarchism" or "socialism", for example. "Ooooh ... Ahhhhh ... murmur," right? These are conditioned responses to concepts most have never intellectually researched for themselves, in an objective, non-biased way; they just take the default line, which has been created and engendered to support the agendas of a very small faction of society - essentially, the ruling class. Those who do research ideas like the examples I mentioned (again, just as examples - try to control your urge to label me, for it is an exercise in futility) foregoing preconceived/indoctrinated notions about them, most often find them to be drastically different in nature than they've been lead to believe. Some may and often do even find them to be very aligned with their own ideals - things they felt strongly about, yet had previously been unable to articulate for themselves. This experience of alignment regarding something you feel passionately about (as Miller felt about perfect liberty, for THAT is what Miller's work is about; you just need to look a little deeper if you can) is beautiful ... is inspiring ... is empowering.