Word: inhumanity
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...science seemed especially dismal to Karl Marx, who damned capitalism as an inhuman system in which "all that is holy is profaned." He charged that it tended to "mutilate the laborer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of appendage of a machine." In The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Frederick Engels conceded that capitalism "has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." Nonetheless, Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself: "Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation...
Lester, in fact, is at his very best when he is undercutting the solemn - and often inhuman - pomposities of power on display. This movie's first sequence, for example, shows the musketeers' efforts to rescue a spy from a firing squad, greatly assisted by the fact that a) it requires something like five minutes to load and aim a matchlock gun and b) using this very latest thing in weaponry, an entire squad of men is likely to miss a stationary target not ten paces away. A little later the French monarch and his retinue pause on their...
...done with mirrors." Cocteau's French text has her say that the feat has "nothing to do with a machine." Machines, in this case, suggest the surreal aspects of the play more directly, anticipating the striking automatism of Death. Machines convey more than a link to the inhuman realm of the mirror; they also elaborate on the idea that the contemporary world has tried to preserve some fascination and belief in the supernatural by turning to technological miracles...
...violence in America. Puritan theology may be dead, he says, but Puritanism is eternal in its tendency to divide everyone into two opposed camps, the saved and the damned, the forces of light and the forces of dark, we and they. Only "they," the damned, are violent, criminal, savage, inhuman--the Indians in early America; in more recent times, the "gooks and slopes" in Vietnam. "We," on the other hand, the peaceful, law-abiding, want only to develop our civilization without hindrance, are justified in violently suppressing "their" uprisings. In the American myth of justified violence, burning or napalming villages...
Moroz, arrested in 1970 on charges of antil-soviet propagands and agitation, has been on a hunger strike in Vladmir prison since July 1. He is protesting the charges on which he is imprisoned and inhuman treatment by prison suthorities...