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he has some really interesting things to say, if you get past the Satanism stuff. I don't think I ever heard him talk about other things- the talk show hosts were always poking him with a stick about his Satanism.
This was cool about the difference between real problems, and manufactured problems:
Where does this need to deny the way things are come from? Is it that if people admitted how bad things were, they’d just fall apart? I have trouble understanding that myself - what’s this need to gloss over things? if you know deep down that it’s xxxxxx-up, why do you need to think otherwise? What’s the motivation? Is it just an elaborate defense mechanism?
Blanche: [to Anton]: On the part of most people: Why do they watch Oprah Winfrey and forget about what’s happening to the rest of the world?
Anton: Because I call it "masochistic America." Or you could say, "the masochistic Western world." it varies in some degrees from nation to nation - not much anymore. It’s because their lives are so barren of any personal meaning that the surrogate lives of these shows, of these ongoing digressions, become as real to them, or more real, than their own lives could possibly be. And so, the nature of the show, the nature of the program says it all. Their lives wouldn’t be complete without the stimulation. Again, I use the word ‘stimulation:’ of chaos, and disharmony, and problems. There is no way that they could possibly be happy unless they were miserable. And, of course, their miseries are small miseries. Tiny miseries. That still gives them plenty of time to make other people miserable. Which is, of course, what they do. So, if they had big enough real problems, then they wouldn’t have time to make other people miserable. And they wouldn’t, perhaps, be as misery-loving. |
