Wendell Berry's send up of a "techtopia just around the corner" article from 1975 got me looking for an Albert Camus line..
". we offer as an example, the only original rule of life today: t learn to live and to die, and in order to be a man, to refuse to be a god. "
From #TheRebel: #albertcamus
Both writers, Berry and Camus, argue for Moderation, Modesty, and Mercy the 3 treasures from _Lao Tzu_'s chapter 67 ....
#ThreeTreasures #ThreeMs
> ... our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds—a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents... it is time to forsake our age and its adolescent furies.
#AlbertCamus in #TheRebel on
#AdolescentVanity #AgingAdolescents #AdolescentFuries
The TV morons in power in the USA with came to mind while reading these lines towards the end of _The Rebel_.. Epic Complacency permitted the stupidity of "Epic Fury"
> Even if the novel describes only nostalgia, despair, frustration, it still creates a form of salvation. To talk of despair is to conquer it. Despairing literature is a contradiction in terms.
https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/english-collections-k-z/The Rebel - Albert Camus.pdf
#CamusOnDespair in a footnote in #TheRebel #TalkOfDespair
Albert Camus on Plain Style in The Rebel 反抗者の文体 The mutual understanding and communication discovered by rebellion can survive only in the free exchange of conversation. Every ambiguity, every misunderstanding, leads to death; clear language and simple words are the only salvation from this death.[fn1] [fn1] It is worth noting that the language peculiar to totalitarian doctrines is always a scholastic or administrative language. --- Albert Camus The Rebel (p. 284) 反抗によって発見された総合理解とコミュニケーションは、自由な会話のなかでなくては永続しえない。あいまいと誤解は死を招く。明白な言語、単純なことばのみが、この死を救うことができる。[fn2] [fn2] 全体主義の教義に固有のことばが、いつもスコラ的か官庁的ことがであることに注意すべきであろう。 (p.278) --- 反抗的人間 カミュ全集 6 訳：佐藤朔 白井浩司 新潮社版 (p. 259) #AlbertCamus #TheRebel #PlainStyle #writing #Japanese #Translation #和訳 Christohper Lasch's Plain Style (https://ruhrspora.de/posts/1961906)
Just watched The Rebel with Tony Hancock, he's one of my favourite comedians of all times, a tragic end to him but this was a delightful outing for him, taking his character out of the 'Half Hour' format with some familiar faces. Same kind of storyline but nice to see him in colour and not just black and white.
#TonyHancock #TheRebel #moviereview #cinemastodon #movienight #filmreview
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