¶ … Mr. Huxley: All of my life, I have felt as though I have been trapped in a play not of my own making. In my wildest dreams, I imagined myself a Hamlet-like character, suffering the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." Hamlet said: "to die, to sleep, aye, that's the rub," when contemplating suicide. However, in my present world, I have come to realize that all of those around me including my late mother have been dwelling in a kind of living sleep, not of their own making. Your satire is so apt, so accurate -- it highlights how the false pursuit of pleasure is a false notion. Although I do not desire suicide, rather I feel that the entire world in which I live is committing a kind of spiritual suicide and rejecting all that is truly good in life, versus what is pleasurable. "Grief and remorse, compassion and duty, all were forgotten now" (Huxley 144). Your barbed wit makes this...
People are happy and numb to any kind of grief, sickness, or tragedy. Children play amongst the sick and dying, so inculcated in the hypnopraedic conditioning they receive from birth that they are unable to question the tenants of their society. Even leisure is engineered to create dependence on the state. "Nowadays the controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the components of existing games" (Huxley 20).
Twilight and the Day of the Locust What is most interesting about the juxtaposition of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, is that each is a mirror of the other, and a mirror of what it pretends to be. If that seems convoluted, consider this: West has written fiction that nonetheless plumbs the depths of individual souls, souls that could be taken
Mortgage Fraud If a rash of armed bank robberies swept across America next year, and if in these robberies criminals absconded with $30 billion dollars, one may be certain that a public panic would ensue. The banking system would likely be changed forever. If thousands of armed thugs went rampaging across the nation forcing people out of their homes, into the streets, and then destroying the properties, leaving the occupants homeless
This literature review first looks at the history if intelligence oversight (IO) and then explains the current problem it faces in terms of ethics and the arrival of the Digital Age, which has complicated the matter. It next synthesizes the literature on what the various ethical theories are and how this further complicates the issue of IO. Finally, it discusses research on the fundamentals of ethics and gives recommendations for
Louis Althusser (1918-90) was one of the foremost Marxist theorists in the Western world, and advocated an especially orthodox version of Marxism that was always close to the Communist Party line. He regarded Bertolt Brecht as one of the great Marxist-revolutionary playwrights of the 20th Century, who used the theater to oppose the capitalist system and bourgeois ideology. In the 2ns section, the paper will examine how Althusser insisted on
Kennedy announced the formation of a special government group to investigate the use and control of pesticides under the direction of the President's Science Advisory Committee (Rachel pp). The book caused a firestorm of public outrage and sold more than a quarter million copies by the end of 1962 (Rachel pp). United State Supreme Court Justice William Douglas called it "the most important chronicle of this century for the
Jefferson's Principles and their Impact on Education Jefferson's radical beliefs in the inherent moral and developmental capacities of humans, and in their capacities to take part to participatory democracy, in turn reinforced his enduring commitment to an education that would be accessible to all. Jefferson was well aware that democracy could only work properly when the people were both virtuous and enlightened. From these notions that people were naturally virtuous but not
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