Word: preservationism
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They swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, manipulating the outside world by remote control. They are in all of us; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is a main reason for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go...
The newly-elected director said he plans to classify the museum's objects in a much more specific fashion. He added that he intends to increase attention devoted to the preservation of the museum's collection because the acquisition of new specimens has become increasingly difficult.
These fantasized societies are huge machines with no purpose but their own preservation. The people who comprise the mechanism have lost all individual sense of purpose. They only have direction if they accept a job and a place in their society--a role in keeping the aimless device in perpetual...
The solution, however, is not to preserve existing programs as a form of corporate welfare--and by doing so preserve a structural defect in the American economy--but to judge them on their merits and to deal separately with the adverse economic consequences that might arise in the event of...
Yet even ignoring the shortcomings of the production, catharsis cannot occur in the show. Unlike Sophocles's creation, Antigona is not denying societal obligations to hold supreme her familial responsibilities. The Greek Antigone refused to acknowledge that there might be political consequences to her actions. The Latin American Antigona makes...