> "Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal,
> weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests
> are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and
> violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to
> create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably
> doomed to failure." - Stanley Kubrick
>
> "There is, of course, a connection between alien- and devil-believers and a
> certain variety of deconstructionists. They are people in the thrall of a
> serious depression, and, in truth, it is unseemly to make fun of them,
> especially since most of us are suffering in varying degrees from the same
> malady. If I knew more about psychology, I might be able to give the
> sickness a name. Instead, I turn to poets - not for a name but for a
> confirmation and a cause. Yeats, for example, gives us a precise description
> of our wayward academics and our overcommitted alienites: The former lack
> all conviction, while the latter are full of passionate intensity. T. S.
> Eliot, you will remember, wrote of the hollow men occupying a wasteland.
> Auden wrote of the age of anxiety. Vachel Lindsay wrote of leaden-eyed
> people who have no gods to serve. Edna St. Vincent Millay, in her book ...

> "Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal,
> weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests
> are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and
> violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to
> create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably
> doomed to failure." - Stanley Kubrick
>
> "There is, of course, a connection between alien- and devil-believers and a
> certain variety of deconstructionists. They are people in the thrall of a
> serious depression, and, in truth, it is unseemly to make fun of them,
> especially since most of us are suffering in varying degrees from the same
> malady. If I knew more about psychology, I might be able to give the
> sickness a name. Instead, I turn to poets - not for a name but for a
> confirmation and a cause. Yeats, for example, gives us a precise description
> of our wayward academics and our overcommitted alienites: The former lack
> all conviction, while the latter are full of passionate intensity. T. S.
> Eliot, you will remember, wrote of the hollow men occupying a wasteland.
> Auden wrote of the age of anxiety. Vachel Lindsay wrote of leaden-eyed
> people who have no gods to serve. Edna St. Vincent Millay, in her book ...

>"Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal,
>weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests
>are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested...

> Thank you for giving us what
> Stanely Kubrick
> Neil Postman
> and Edna St. Vincent Millay
> Had to say.
>
>
> Now, to complete the picture, you only have 6,212, 345,123 people to go to
> get an accurate assessment of the subject.
>
>
>

> Thank you for giving us what
> Stanely Kubrick
> Neil Postman
> and Edna St. Vincent Millay
> Had to say.
>
> Now, to complete the picture, you only have 6,212, 345,123 people to go to
> get an accurate assessment of the subject.

>> "There is, of course, a connection between alien- and devil-believers and a
>> certain variety of deconstructionists. They are people in the thrall of a
>> serious depression, and, in truth, it is unseemly to make fun of them,
>> especially since most of us are suffering in varying degrees from the same
>> malady.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SEULZIHru0

>
>
> K e v:
> "Industrial Disease" would have made more sense (IMHO), no???

> On May 31, 8:58 pm, "turtoni" fastmail.net> wrote:

>>
>> "Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal,
>> weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests
>> are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and
>> violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to
>> create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably
>> doomed to failure." - Stanley Kubrick

>

>> "There is, of course, a connection between alien- and devil-believers and a
>> certain variety of deconstructionists. They are people in the thrall of a
>> serious depression, and, in truth, it is unseemly to make fun of them,
>> especially since most of us are suffering in varying degrees from the same
>> malady. If I knew more about psychology, I might be able to give the
>> sickness a name. Instead, I turn to poets - not for a name but for a
>> confirmation and a cause. Yeats, for example, gives us a precise description
>> of our wayward academics and our overcommitted alienites: The former lack
>> all conviction, while the latter are full of passionate intensity. T. S.
>> Eliot, you will remember, wrote of the hollow men occupying a wasteland. ...

> Thank you for giving us what
> Stanely Kubrick
> Neil Postman
> and Edna St. Vincent Millay
> Had to say.
>
> Now, to complete the picture, you only have 6,212, 345,123 people to go to
> get an accurate assessment of the subject.