The Man From La Mancha is a story about an old man who after reading inspiring stories about chivalrous knights defeating dragons and rescuing damsels in distress decides to go out on a mission to find a spotless virgin to ... because of senility and his poor eyesight he winds up mistaking a bar maid for a lady of honor and a windmill for a fire breathing dragon. This same scenario crops up in the Oedipus complex individual who devotes himself to fight against illusionary evil in order to rescue some imagined damsel in distress. Marxist-feminism is a also such a tale, only in this case, the ...

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