The Neverending Story II
Maerman
Nobel Laureate, Bob Dylan.
The movie is definitely on my list, yeah. I'll check it out. And I heard that This Perfect Day got more mixed reviews than most of his stuff.
I'm on an Ira Levin kick right now. I just finished The Stepford Wives, now I'm reading The Boys From Brazil with a work friend. It's really good.
Man, Blindsight is a trip. It wasn't an easy read for me, but I really enjoyed it.
The irony here is that the Luddites used machines. Nobody was weaving by hand in those days. Their grievance was not with machines in and of themselves, but with the machines being used to create an inferior product and oppress workers. Do you see the connection?
"When the moment finally comes, I can be the trigger, you can be the gun that blows out the back of my skull." - Donald Sutherland, by Ass Ponys
Love this band.
This is some good history; thanks for sharing.
Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
It's a quick read, and it hits like a bullet.
I actually had a thought about this in a discussion last night. Capitalism is based on the assumption of infinite growth, which is physically impossible with finite resources. So it turns inward, in a process of internal reduction. People are reduced to numbers, life is reduced to statistics, and so on. But that is also unsustainable, because this reduction weakens the core. To quote Yeats, the center cannot hold. These social movements like punk and goth get hollowed out by the commodification you describe, until they collapse. But hey, I'm a bit drunk right now, so maybe I'm just rambling.

Right? I would even have taken 'Part II'.