Thank you MC for your brilliant analysis. I very much appreciate your eloquent writing style and the depth of knowledge from which you source key quotes and inspiration.
I hope you don't mind but I noticed two small typos. Beneath, "Miseducation and rights" – "...revo[l]utionary named Tedros..."
In your last paragraph, second sentence, "This concept was describe[d] in detail..."
One view of Wells’s Time Machine is that it satirizes both Darwin and Marx.
Darwin because the time traveller finds that the future is not a continuation of evolution but a reversal which eventually “winds down” all the way back to the sight of a crab on a beach.
Marx because the “revolution” of the future achieves a reversal of the current class structure in which it is the brutish underlings who rule over an ineffectual elite.
The denouement of the Murican public sphere is terminal. Elected reps know 2 things: (1) take care of "The Lobby" and its wants; (2) take care of corp. interests. The rest is an acting job of the most brutal ugliness.
Thank you MC for your brilliant analysis. I very much appreciate your eloquent writing style and the depth of knowledge from which you source key quotes and inspiration.
I hope you don't mind but I noticed two small typos. Beneath, "Miseducation and rights" – "...revo[l]utionary named Tedros..."
In your last paragraph, second sentence, "This concept was describe[d] in detail..."
One view of Wells’s Time Machine is that it satirizes both Darwin and Marx.
Darwin because the time traveller finds that the future is not a continuation of evolution but a reversal which eventually “winds down” all the way back to the sight of a crab on a beach.
Marx because the “revolution” of the future achieves a reversal of the current class structure in which it is the brutish underlings who rule over an ineffectual elite.
The denouement of the Murican public sphere is terminal. Elected reps know 2 things: (1) take care of "The Lobby" and its wants; (2) take care of corp. interests. The rest is an acting job of the most brutal ugliness.