"Sometime after the twenties a secret loneliness, so penetrating and so encompassing that we are only beginning to realize the extent of it, descended upon the land. This scientific, psychiatric isolation and futility had become a far worse prison of the spirit than the old Victorian "virtue" ever was." (Lila, 22)
Platt Thank you S/O intellectuals. [Krimel] Seriously? A secret loneliness? There was a decade that began with 40 million people dying of the flu after 15 million had been killed in battle the decade before. It ended in the collapse of the entire world economy. Secret loneliness? You mean like people were sad and dare I say, depressed? Holy shit! Maybe that's why it was call the Great Depression. Wait is that a secret, too? So... it was all so that the scientists could invent more bombs and psychiatrists would have plenty of depressed people to treat... Curses on all those smarty pants intellectuals! Wow, Platt since the last brain cell died I have started to like the way you think! [Platt] You forgot to mention the more than 100 million slaughtered by intellectually- guided communism in Russia and China. No need to ask why you left that out of your account of recent history. [Krimel] Hmm, maybe it was that last brain cell that carried the memory of Russians and Chinese people killing each other by the millions in the 20s. Hell, I didn't even know there were Victorians in China back then. They must have been more depressed than I thought. And they sure kept all that killing a secret. No wonder people were lonely. I'll bet the sky was just a shade grayer to I mean even the air must have been alienated. The mountains were probably shorter and the valleys deeper. The consciousness of the whole panpsychic cosmos imprisoned in the futile bummer of the brave new world. "That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" - Yeats Do me a favor, tell me when its gone or wake me up when we get to the '50s. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
