On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Krimel <[email protected]> wrote: > "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. >
[Platt} It's no secret why intellectuals want to keep secret all the killing by communists in the 20th century. 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
