Tag Archives: Anthony Burgess

being one of the boys

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Dave

and so it is The Demise of the Guys is one of Philip Zimbardo’s latest crusades, another repainting of his early 1970’s masterpiece  at  Stanford known as the Prison Experiment which had to be halted when “ordinary” male behavior went … Continue reading →

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the whippersnappers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dave

Is life a theater piece almost entirely concerned with transformation and fragile illusion. Certainly, the News Corp scandal has explored those fugitive relationships between the criminal, the downright irritating and the tawdry sensationalism of seeing the oppressor squirm, metaphorically with … Continue reading →

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in search of magic: a different route to ecstasy

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dave

A route to ecstasy that began by a descent into the demonic. A negative utopia without free will where freedom was attained through an absence of will. … His 1935 production of Cenci was poorly received. Seventeen performances in a … Continue reading →

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THE ROMANTIC AGONY: FATAL ATTRACTION

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dave

It was while he was still a student that Berlioz discovered Shakespeare; ”Shakespeare and Goethe! The mute witness of my torments, who have explained my whole life to me”, and he simulataneously fell in love with the blond Irish actress … Continue reading →

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THE PEACEABLE PRIMATE ?

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Dave

The theologians of biology. Many have asserted that bloodlust and the love of violence are built into our genes. Others say no; like our primate cousins today, our remote forebears had to cooperate to survive, and preferred to anyway. Man … Continue reading →

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TIE DYE REVOLUTIONISTS: BAD CHEMICAL REACTION

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Dave

Yesterday’s radicalism fades in unaccountable ways into today’s reaction, and what the revolutionaries intended to build may turn out the precise reverse. ( Hannah Arendt ) What was new with the 60’s counter-culture was the sheer mass character of the … Continue reading →

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Don't Kill Me, I'm With Stupid

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Dave

”The pathological and cyclical nature of violent behaviour”.  Little one-eyed bunnies with kalishnikovs and other weapons of group destruction attempting to liquidate each other, vigilante style. Unhinged citizens, mad as hell and taking it out on each other,a gang that … Continue reading →

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