Elaborate Burial Customs Are A Sure Sign

I Admired Anyone Who Could Unsettle People.

The Functional Freedom That Anybody Can Buy A Gun And Go Out And Murder A Lot Of People At A Mcdonald's Is Prevalent, Yes. But Through The Effects Of Tv And Interactive Video Systems And So Forth, We'll Also Have The Freedom To Pretend To Be A Mass Murderer For The Evening. I've Seen Descriptions Of Advanced Tv Systems In Which A Simulation Of Reality Is Computer Controlledthe Tv Viewer Of The Future Will Wear A Special Helmet. You'll No Longer Be An External Spectator To fiction Created By Others, But An Active Participant In Your Own Fantasies/dramas.

I Find Wholly Baffling The Widespread Belief Today That The Dropping Of The Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombs Was An Immoral Act, Even Possibly A War Crime To Rank With Nazi Genocide.

Art Exists Because Reality Is Neither Real Nor Significant.

I Suspect That Many Of The Great Cultural Shifts That Prepare The Way For Political Change Are Largely Aesthetic. A Buick Radiator Grille Is As Much A Political Statement As A Rolls Royce Radiator Grille, One Enshrining A Machine Aesthetic Driven By A Populist Optimism, The Other Enshrining A Hierarchical And Exclusive Social Order.