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...what the public would accept stand in the way of his imagination. When I began the book I expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American superstate-usually a "World Government" democratically ruled by Americans-in which supercars zoom over mega-highways toward ultracities. But on page 21 found myself staring at the Destruction of the Washington Monument by the Mongols...
Clouds & Sparks. The attractions are obvious enough. Heroin produces a drowsy, drifting effect; LSD contorts and sometimes expands the mind. Methedrine, which is a harmless stimulant when taken orally in small doses, turns into a kind of mega-pep dose when it is concentrated and injected. It acts on the central nervous system in such a way as to give what the three medical researchers, who have studied addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona, describe as a "sudden generalized, overwhelming, pleasureful feeling." With somewhat more enthusiasm, a female speeder says that "it fills you inside, like this churning...
Cacoyannis, who not only produced and wrote the script but designed the chorus boys' clothes, tries hard to pull everyone together at the finale to make a momentous point about the atomic age. With no result. His 1,000,000-mega-ton bomb has enough cinematic overkill to bore to death every man, woman and hermaphrodite from here to Athens...
...town crier of Quang Tri strolled through the streets of South Viet Nam's northernmost provincial capital and shouted his message through a mega phone hammered from old U.S. beer cans: "I would like to tell the people that the candidates for the presidential elections will be here to talk...
Mumford finds his devil and feels his great passion as he confronts the "mega-machine"-political, economic, bureaucratic, royal powers organized into vast enterprises. He is slightly hysterical in denouncing the U.S. military establishment as a megamachine and "the minds now in charge of [it] have already proved as open to ... corrupt fantasies and psychotic breakdowns as those of the Bronze Age kings." The myth of the machine is based on a belief that the megamachine is "absolutely irresistible and ultimately beneficial" as well as beyond resistance. Not so, says Mumford. The benefits of the Machine Age are a fraud...