An Analysis Of The Hills Like White Elephants (2)
In the ultimate, bitter-sweet, episode of the Blackadder series ~ ‘Blackadder Goes Fo(u)rth’ ~ the comedy suddenly, unexpectedly, but fairly rightly and appropriately, turns very critical. It’s 1917, in the trenches of France, and the workforce are about to go ‘excessive’.
Certain, it is unhappy that the fish will all be gone in 50 years and, yes, it sure is unusually sizzling outside, however I can simply pop my frozen lasagna within the microwave and turn up the air con. This delusion that we are separate from nature is the perilous essence of the techno-topian fable. The sooner we are able to shatter it, the better. We may very well be inside a pc simulation but we’re nonetheless actual within the sense that we’ve got thoughts and emotions.
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