The content of our subjectivity

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

For great movies, today we turn to Iran and Taiwan, among others.

Check out at least Hou Hsiao-Hsien's _City of Sadness_ (visit 
<http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Papers/CityOfSadness/table.html> for 
more info).

Yoshie