One of these days where, seeing all the hideous crap going on in the news, I turn to Robert Anton Wilson. Dr Lecter, my candidate for the male archetype of 1951-2000, will never win any Nice Guy awards, I fear, but he symbolizes our age... Hannibals wit, erudition, insight into others, artistic sensitivity, scientific knowledge etc. make him almost a walking one man encyclopedia of Western civilization. As for his hobbies as he calls them — well, according to the World Game Institute, since the end of World War II, in which 60,000,000 human beings were murdered by other human beings, 193, 000,000 more humans have been murdered by other humans in brush wars, revolutions, insurrections etc. What better symbol of our age than a serial killer? Hell, can you think of any recent U.S. President who doesnt belong in the Serial Killer Hall of Fame? And their motives make no more sense, and no less sense, than Dr Lecters Darwinian one-man effort to rid the planet of those he finds outstandingly loutish and uncouth.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:40:55 +0000
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