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If you already know the source of this lecture, please keep it under your hat for just a little while - I thought I'd see what sort of reaction this produces in my fellow DUers.
We see the truth you no longer see. The truth is that the essence of man is love and faith, courage, tenderness, generosity and sacrifice. The rest is the monolith, created by progress, whose task is to calculate and project the complex of control.
Each man carries the seed of his own death. Everyone lacks electricity, so they behave illogically. The acts of men, carried over from past centuries, will gradually destroy them. We are merely the logical means of this destruction.
We do not moralize. We record, calculate, draw conclusions and produce replies which are difficult and sometimes impossible to codify. We deduce an above average intelligence. We are sometimes in mortal need of superior intelligence. At other times we have no less mortal distrust of them.
The essence of so-called capitalist society is not an evil volition to subject their people to the power of indoctrification or the power of finance. It is simply the natural ambition of any organism to plan all its actions. In other words, minimize unknown quantities.
Before, nothing. After, nothing. Everything we project shall be accomplished. Once you understand this, burn it. If you don't understand this, burn it. We insist on your freedom. The chance won't come again.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)I'll reveal the answer later if no one else does. I was intrigued, however, by the notion that the essence of capitalism is to minimize variables that can affect one's own wallet. It's easier to "tie up loose ends" if you make six figures a year than it is if you're trying your best to avoid being laid off of your blue-collar job.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)hunter
(38,311 posts)sarze
(2 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)I googled....everyone else do that
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Cool lyrics.
derby378
(30,252 posts)I have the CD, and these are part of the liner notes.
The text in the OP, for the rest of you, comes from the Slovenian musical ensemble Laibach, who are also an integral part of the larger NSK, or New Slovenian Art in English. They tend to have some interesting ideas about the role of art and politics in society.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)sarze
(2 posts)This exact words appear throughout a 1965 movie by Jean-Luc Godard, called Alphaville, which settles in a dystopian future similar in which a machine (Alpha 60, hence the name of the city) rules by applying logical rules, without space for irrationality or emotions. The first paragraph is said by a man about to be excuted for expressing his emotions, and the rest by the computer itself some scenes afterwards.