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Re: b!t revolut!on : : part _ 0+4 f!lm

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, January 21, 1999, 19:36
=cw4t7abs wrote:

> antiorp uses a lovely, subtle technique
About as subtle as a fart.
> This act is more fundamental than understanding
Granted, there is no understanding without seeing.
> and is the real source of > meaning, rather than the bland and banal superficialities of discourse.
Which is the natural form of glass, clear plate glass or Coke-bottle glass?
> The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction (William > Blake).
Folly is the cloke [cloak] of knavery.
> it is an affront to life form ability to comprehend. understand. process. > it glorifies simplistic. violent measures which impede progress. > > it is equivalent with detonating a bomb on those with whom we disagree.
Rubbish. Not listening to someone is not to be compared to murder. "It was bad for the Germans [here comes Godwin's Law] to send Albert Einstein packing, but it was infinitely worse for them to murder little Benno Cohn from around the corner, though he was no genius." -- Hannah Arendt (quoted from memory)
> do we feel so overwhelmed by the sensory information impinging upon our brains > that we find it necessary to relegate these decisions to a "a/b" program > which does not posses even the hundred thousandth mental capacity of a > house fly +?
You betcha. Do *you* read all spams, or all physical junk mail? Do you buy all advertised products in the spirit of private consumer's research? Meditate on 1) Trakl 2) Celine 3) Primo Levi. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)