Apart from anything else, her story further vindicated my utter
mistrust of big business and senior politicians. These are the people who largely
run our culture with dishonesty, disinformation and deceit – and all in the
cause of making personal and pecuniary gains – while the Rachel Carsons who work
tirelessly and selflessly to promote a restrained and sensible approach to
environmental practices have to struggle to overcome their sleazy barriers.
The best quotation I saw came from one of the politicians
opposed to her unquestionably laudable mission. His name was Ezra Taft Benson
and he was a former US
Secretary of Agriculture. He wrote to the then US President, Dwight D
Eisenhower, claiming that Rachel Carson’s unmarried status while being a fully
fit woman meant that ‘she is probably a Communist.’
It has everything, doesn’t it? Fallacious presumption, bigotry,
prejudice, and irrationality, not to mention the petty vindictiveness which led
to the writing of the letter in the first place.
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