Tag Archives: William Golding

teenage wasteland: alpha female

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

The degree to which children harbor seriously violent fantasies is well known for some time. From Golding’s Lord of the Flies, to Freud, to Heinrich Hoffman to everyday experience among children, their inability in many cases to sublimate the kill … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alizia gur, Barbara Kay, catherine cogswell, Charles Baudelaire, emily white, Erica Jong, Lori Prince, margaret bourke-white, martine beswick, meryl streep the iron lady, miriam kaufman, phyllis chester, rachel simmons, ray corrado, reena virk, reena virk murder, rosalind wiseman, sibylle artz, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, William Golding | Leave a comment

wild boys: remnants of middle class decency

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

Social realism unvarnished, unplugged, with America as a near gulag in gritty depression era society on the edge between starvation and death. Poverty, hypocrisy, opportunism are all explored in pre-code Hollywood where hand to mouth representations of living and ambiguous … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged frankie darro, freddie bartholomew, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hays Commission, jackie cooper, joe breen, joe breen enforced code, John Steinbeck, Lord of the Flies, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud repression, William Golding, William Wellman | Leave a comment

guess whose coming to dinner?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Dave

Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alice Miller, August Sander, cannibalism, James Hilton, Jared Diamond, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Verelst, Lawrence H. Keeley, Lord of the Flies, margaret bourke-white, Nicholas Wade, Sigmund Freud, Steven Pinker, Thomas Hobbes, William Golding | Leave a comment

BORN TO BE WILD?

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Dave

Well then, what about the baboon male? How does he become dominant, and how much do inherited drives and traits enter into the process? At one time baboon dominance was thought to be almost entirely a matter of inheritance; of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Ashley Montagu, Beyond the gates of Splendor, Boyce Rensberger, Desmond Morris, Harold E. Driver, Irven De Vore, Jane Goodall, K.R.L. Hall, Lionel Tiger, Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey, Robert Ruark, Robert Wingfield, Robin Fox, Steve Saint, Tasaday Stone Age tribe, Tasaday Tribe Philippines, Thelma Rowell, Theodore Schwartz, Vernon and Frances Reynolds, William Golding | Leave a comment

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 →