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...next world. So it was last week that on the appointed day several thousand students gathered in the streets of Seoul to mark the final passage of Park Jong Chul, a 21-year-old student who had died during a police interrogation. What followed was more like a descent into hell...
Equally full of contradictions and strange pairings is The Shining (Harvard Film Archive), a 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller. The novel was an everyday tale of a haunted resort hotel, charting an ordinary man's descent into insanity. In Kubrick's version, the main character (Jack Nicholson) is completely unhinged from the very start of the movie, leaving out much of the book's terrifying psychological horror. Nicholson comes off as a cross between Manson and Carson, a connection made explicit by the film's most famous line, "Heeeere's Johnny...
ABOUT A CENTURY ago, Friedrich Nietzsche made some terrifying predictions about the fate of man. He foresaw man's descent into a despicable creature--the last man, a beast whose only goal is comfortable self-preservation...
...rate of descent into this wretched condition picked up noticeably some 20 years ago here in America. Around that time, hedonists and idealists converged as flower children and whined about giving peace a chance. When John Lennon imagined a world in which there was "nothing to kill or die for, no religion too," etc., this descent was, as modern political scientists say, "institutionalized...
...late, the descent has become a veritable free fall. I realized this a few months ago when I came across a slogan at once simple and profound, a slogan which defines The Great Ambition of our age. The slogan, the ambition, is, of course, safe...