On Jun 1, 12:39Â am, Immortalist
yahoo.com> wrote:> On May 31, 8:58Â 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
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>> "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
>> Huntsman, What Quarry?, wrote a poem which goes to the root of the
>> problem." -- Neil Postman
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>> "Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
>> Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
>> Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
>> Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
>> Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
>> To weave it into fabric".
>> -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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> How do these paragraphs go together in a way that helps us "understand
> stories"?
