Glad you enjoyed it.. The connection didn't dawn lightly, and I meant most sincerely that this epithet be as excoriating as possible without actually saying, stupid fucking ___. (I assume that most folks here have read lots more science-novels (sci-fi has such cardboard connotation) than the general population.)

I thought HGW perfectly prescient in his carefully drawn depiction of the Eloi. And in fact, the more we have become dependent upon increasingly arcane techno for even the basics of obtaining water, doing sewage and.. just everything -- while simultaneously the average person knows less about how things work than many knew at age 13ish (when I was 13) -- we already have the ignorant consumer. Most have little idea how *anything* works, of the countless gadgets they 'use' .. generally minimally, for possessing no imagination of the basics or the possibilities.

HGW grokked this to fullness over a Century! ago (~ 1895? for The Time Machine) apparently a one able to extrapolate the already growing gap between the herd and those who troubled to learn anything. Unlike those naifs who imagined that a large well-fed population, able to delegate shit-work to machines - would use their freed time to become more aware of each other and of their environment, their history (!!) HGW understood somehow what 'LCD' means.

Was it Ben T. (?) who found the refs for a recent "attitude inventory" which revealed that, the poorer one's actual performance - the higher one's self-evaluation.

OK - so we're doomed. On the Beach was filmed in Oz! Of course then, we had Ava (and Fred Astaire not-dancing). Screw the stupid car races; I fancy going out like Potiphar Breen, the pre-computers statistician in PK Dick's short story, The Year of the Jackpot. [I just can't spoil it with more info].



We of the Eloi salute Britney and Shrub, Our Heroes.

- even in Olden days there was a tocsin (bell, whatever) to get the peasants behind the castle moat.. when the Repos were on a rampage. As to underground -?- I have to project that HGW may have had an inkling of nuclear energy.. umm immanent in all things (?) surely an idea of Higher-explosives than the gunpowder of the day. (Not that I imagine he grokked the very-simple mathematical cause of that-all: the chain reaction; what a perfect Boolean Operator, that! Just then. But had someone mentioned this key, most likely in a chemical sense du jour - can anyone doubt that he would have run with it?)

The alarums today: the brain-dead propaganda, your cheeldrun are in danger! support our Endless War on Oceania and - We Will Save You! (The fact that we may all save ourselves by merely cultivating a less exploitive midset re all others on the planet: That is unthinkable to all Nintendo-Eloi, as it was to my Gramma and her ilk. It is too sane for the true-believer of mindless cant. It's his RIGHT to live high on the hog forever, 'cause he be Murican or Saudi Prince or Donald Trump or just. armed. better.)

Damn but.. we be Dense. And fucking vicious while asleep in the brain-pan.


Ashton