Well, finally got to see him, but unfortunately he didn’t do a book reading. Anyway, he signed my copy of Imperial Bedrooms with the message, “Let it go, let it go, let it go”. I thought maybe song lyrics, but nothing noteworthy showed up in my Google searches except Def Leopard, Krokus and really bad R&B. Oh Double Rainbow guy! What does it mean?
Yes, Sarkozy is a populist douchebag, but really, finding clever ways to perpetuate your own subjugation is just stupid.
Idiocracy — about a dystopia 500 years in the future where braindead fools populate the planet and everything is run by corporations — was actually presaged by Friedrich Nietzsche in his philosophical masterpiece, Thus Spake Zarathustra. In it he heralds the dawn of a new philosophical era, the threat of nihilism, and the übermensch. The übermensch — or the man who seeks to surpass himself, to reach his potential — stands diametrically opposite to what Nietzsche calls The Last Man, who is perfectly content with stagnation, whose “herd mentality” makes him most comfortable among equally unambitious people, who is unable to criticize himself, and who therefore cannot grow.
The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest.
“We have discovered happiness”–say the last men, and blink thereby.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Idiocracy is not a great movie, but it is a trenchant critique of our society (though about as subtle as using a sledgehammer to drive in a pin).The movie obviously is directed at the United States, where underrated director Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead and cult movie Office Space, hails from. But anyone traveling abroad, or surfing the internet, can easily surmise the same thing: that we are already living in a budding idiocracy everywhere on the planet.
Arrested Drunk Guy Sings Bohemian Rhapsody
Ayn Rand versus the Religious Right
HAPPINESS!
