The Brobdingnagian Immodesty Of The CTA
By EsqSocial Corporation 26/12/24
In 1729, the Anglo-Irish clergyman Jonathan Swift devised what he called a "modest proposal" to for preventing the children of poor people from becoming a burden to their parents and country. In a nutshell, he proposed that indigent children "be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table". Swift's shocking proposal was anything but...
By: Allen Matkins