The content of our subjectivity

[joanna bujes]

At 07:37 PM 08/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>but the content of our
>subjectivity is incomparably richer (better medical care, new and
>interesting narratives, mass scientific education, and the relative
>freedom to sit back and complain about all that junk on TV, instead of
>planting rice seeds or harvesting wheat by hand).

This strikes me as nonesense. The continual barrage of commercial 
propaganda is as effective as ever and turns most people into complete 
idiots. And, if the content of our subjectivity is so much better, where 
are our Checkhovs? our Tolstoys? our Orwells? our Lessings? and so on. Look 
at movies--the outstanding twentieth century art forms--our most touted 
directors, like Spielberg, are nothing more than derivative wannabes. There 
hasn't been anything going on there for well over forty years.

Joann Bujes