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...crowd, estimated at 25, including a crying baby and an assorted freak or two, went wild in anticipation of the next event, the 50 yd. free style. And, much to Brown's delight, they took first--one of two--in the only close race of the evening, as Crimson Co-captain Paul Horvitz was touched...
...natural world came with the development of linguistic capabilities (by chance again) which led-to-the enlargement of the brain (by selective pressures, again) and the ensuing host of conscious performances. Man, then, is bound as much as any other organism to his history as an evolutionary freak: A purely random sequence of events occurred on a molecular level which included the development of communicable thought...
...assume that an "advanced" civilization would be technological at all? Any superior intelligence would have long since outgrown the adolescent machine-freak stage we wallow in, and would have evolved to a new reacceptance of nature. Technology implies a Western psychology-aberrant enough when compared to the myriad other, better-adjusted cultures that have bloomed during man's hundred thousand years on this planet. It is audaciously chauvinistic to expect to find a duplicate neurosis in the depths of space. We are searching only for ourselves...
...language may be a bit strange, the setting slightly unfamiliar, but Alex is immediately recognizable. He is a true child of the near future, a freak for violence, who would understand and enthusiastically approve Charlie Manson's credo: "Do the unexpected. No sense makes sense." Yet the confounding thing, and perhaps the ultimate irony of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, is that Alex is surprisingly but undeniably engaging...
...compromise counter-cultural movement had long since taken to the hills to the North or the plains of New Mexico, and the streets of the Haight and Sunset Boulevard lay littered with the last pock-marked remains of hippie. Hippie was now the 95-lb. speed freak on the corner who hustled bad acid and talked non-stop about getting it all together "in a commune somewhere." Hippie began to dress in a black cape, wearing a Mephistophiles beard and an upside-down crucifix, cultivating a rap of strange mumbo-jumbo, anywhere from the teachings of the English satanist Aleister...