Zizek's Lenin

[Carl Remick]

>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>I have to side with Carrol on this one.  I think this "rah, rah,
>>longevity" business gets you nowhere.  One of the things I like
>>about _Brave New World_ is how neatly Huxley balances the
>>nightmarishness of primitive society with that of technological
>>society; both modes of living are equally awful but in different
>>ways.  My own view of the fruits of capitalist scientific
>>achievement is that they have made possible lives that are nasty,
>>brutish ... and long.
>
>C'mon, is your life miserable? Mine isn't, and I'm sure most of the
>people on this list wouldn't characterize their lives as miserable.
>Disappointing in spots, for sure, and not free of sadness, but nasty
>& brutish? - hard to believe.
>
>Doug

I'd say I spend much, if not most, of my life in a mood that would make 
Edgar Allan Poe look like Mr. Rogers.  I prefer to think the reasons for 
this are political or philosophical in origin, but, who knows, the cause may 
just be an imbalance of humors, too much serotonin reuptake, or the like.  
At any rate, my posting bilious e-mails to a list like this seems to me a 
more constructive sort of response than popping pills or shock therapy, 
though that assumption could well be merely part of the total neurosis ;-)

Carl

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