[NewMusic] Book Review - Alex Ross = Gannicide

[Matthew Goodheart]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:18 AM, George Cremaschi wrote:

> But for me there is an even larger issue, frightening as well as  
> fascinating:
> how demographics is creating the very people it needs to in order  
> to fulfill it's
> mission. How more and more people are becoming little more than the  
> products
> and ideas they've been sold, believing in them only until the next  
> batch arrives.

I would agree, although people "becoming the products and ideas  
they've been sold" works only as in how they react as "consumers",  
the political voting blocks, etc. In those realms, many folk react  
based on the expectations of those who determine how they are to be  
treated. On individual levels, it's really different, and I know you  
know that, but it still needs to be said. . . I can't just dismiss  
them as soulless. . .

Tangentially topical is the film "Flock of Dodos," about the  
evolution/ID debate. Does a good job of humanizing the folks who are  
mind-bendingly ignorant about science, and briefly mentions how hey  
are exploited. Which brings up:

>  (at least until the order goes out to get rid of the  
> 'intellectuals').

Won't be long. . . you're the smart one getting overseas  before they  
start rounding us up. . .

mg