30-07-2013, 09:10 PM
Albert Rossi Wrote:Jan, your point about the ability to assimilate new ideas is well taken. My complaint, however, is leveled more at a presumption concerning the recipient's ability to evaluate what she hears or reads. Perhaps the signature on Lauren's message says it all.
Albert - I loathed and fought the Golden Age Rules adumbrated above.
And I want to believe in our, humanity's, ability to evaluate what we hear or see with intelligence and insight.
But it is hard to watch the dominant, consensus, public discourse unfold day after day and fail to conclude that the vast mass of humanity has lost its critical faculties.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war