Re: Oligophrenia

[Gary Kern <gkern@alumni.Princeton.EDU>]

richard wrote:
> 
> EJ is a remarkable describer. However his scheme is often the same. An
> emerging materialist class, agents of the titans which tends to take the
> place of the aristocratic and religious class, supposed representative of
> the gods. EJ was a close witness of the total anihilation (not a game) of
> the last elements of the system built by Frederic le Grand (BG an enlighted
> despote who buys works of Leonard for have a cultural image ? Frederic had
> its own IBM named Elisabeth of Russia who invaded Berlin but finaly F.
> won). So, following EJ, the titans came and a new mass era (M. Biddiss)
> began and will continue in the XXI st century. Retiring in a wood is
> possible for some evoluated independant persons, in fact only for EJ
> himself. So what issue. Basta with futurism, modernism and other A. Tofler.
> Every trys such as those of Baudrillard are respectable. It's not the place
> here to open the Pandora's box of postmodernism.
> richard
> homepage on compuserve.
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The funny thing is, so many people want to walk in the woods that
there's hardly any woods left.  You go to a national park and see
laundry hanging out on the line and have to stop at traffic lights.

You may be interested in INTELLECTUALS by Paul Johnson.  It takes the
same premise as you describe above--the new secular gurus replacing the
old religious ones.  Johnson shows how flawed they are, from Rousseau to
Hemingway.  The worst monster of all is Brecht.

GK