A thought for lunch break: 01:57 Why is it that we don’t seem to be able to adjust ourselves to the physical environment without destroying it? 05:45 We want to convert the rhythms and the skills of work into cash, which indeed you can buy something with, but you can’t eat it. And then rush home to get away from work, and begin the real business of life, to enjoy ourselves. 06:27 You might think that people getting home to the real point of life in a robust material culture would go home to a colossal banquet or an orgy of love-making or a riot of music and dancing. But nothing of a kind! It turns out to be this purely, passive contemplation of a twittering screen. You see mile after mile of darkened houses, with that little electronic screen flickering in the room, everybody isolated, watching this thing, and thus in no real communion with each other at all. And this isolation of people into a private world of their own is really the creation of a mindless crowd. 08:10 It’s perfectly proper to exhibit people slugging and slaying each other, but oh dear no, not people loving each other. 08:26 The expressions of physical love are far more dangerous than expressions of physical hatred.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:02:25 +0000
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