God Was A Clever Idea

E. Klimov's 'come And See,' About Partisans Fighting The Germans In Byelorussia, Is The Greatest Anti-war Film Ever Made.

Along With Our Passivity, We're Entering A Profoundly Masochistic Phase Everyone Is A Victim These Days, Of Parents, Doctors, Pharmaceutical Companies, Even Love Itself. And How Much We Enjoy It. Our Happiest Moments Are Spent Trying To Think Up New Varieties Of Victimhood.

A General Rule: If Enough People Predict Something, It Won't Happen.

Science Is The Ultimate Pornography, Analytic Activity Whose Main Aim Is To Isolate Objects Or Events From Their Contexts In Time And Space. This Obsession With The Specific Activity Of Quantified Functions Is What Science Shares With Pornography.

The Marriage Of Reason And Nightmare Which Has Dominated The 20th Century Has Given Birth To An Ever More Ambiguous World. Across The Communications Landscape Move The Specters Of Sinister Technologies And The Dreams That Money Can Buy. Thermonuclear Weapons Systems And Soft Drink Commercials Coexist In An Overlit Realm Ruled By Advertising And Pseudoevents, Science And Pornography. Over Our Lives Preside The Great Twin Leitmotifs Of The 20th Century-sex And Paranoia.