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There are two responses one could have to the fact that human beings are nothing but the accidental product of a mindless algorithmic process. The first is the path of reluctance, feat, even dread; this has been the main response of Western arts and letters since Darwin, and its products have ranged from the sentimental agnosticism of Matthew Arnold to the brutal existentialism of Sartre. The second is the path of gleeful Philistinism, which glories in exposing the rubes like Plato, Aquinas and Kant whose faith in human divnity has been overthrown by the glittering progress of Science...
...White House aides murdered Vincent Foster, the President's deputy counsel, and not only managed to make the killing look like a suicide but also persuaded numerous fbi agents and members of the U.S. Park Police to join in on the cover-up-all in all, a nifty feat for a White House that has yet to demonstrate it knows how to vet a nominee or hew to a position...
Then, more recently, the Salient ran an advertisement for pre-frosh "and anyone else who's interested," warning of their "competititors...asking you...to subscribe to their news coverage." In an unprecedented feat of erudition, they recognized that "All campus papers are available free in Lamont Library from the day of publication." Right, that includes the Salient as well...
...didn't. Even the expulsion of two students didn't slow down the fevered students. "The whole Sophomore class absented themselves from prayers with three exceptions," President Quincy writes in the letter. Three exceptions. You just have to wonder who those cool kids were. The Sophomore class repeated this feat one more time, and--here comes the kicker--that same day the administration voted the entire Sophomore class "to be dismissed from college and be ordered to leave Cambridge immediately after Commons; which for that class are to cease after breakfast." The class left town without too much trouble before...
...another scale, the revival of Germany's Babelsberg Studios that inspire the imagination of thousands of writers, filmmakers and animators and keep them awake at night, thinking up new projects. At least five films have recently been made in Babelsberg, and three more are in production, a remarkable feat for a European effort many considered doomed from the start. In a best-case scenario, DreamWorks could be an oasis within Hollywood, a place where agents and dealmakers would not prevail over talent; it could forever change the way the industry is run. So SKG, forget the naysayers, build that dream...