teledyn ๐I wonder if the world would be different if politicians studied Stafford Beer instead of Machiavelli ๐ค
Nah. Would likely still be Rule by Whatever Seemed A Real Good Idea at the Time.
Corso read this poem at New College in Oxford in 1958. Many members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament were there, and they didn't appreciate Corso's humorous, ambivalent tone. He was heckled. Allen Ginsberg tried to explain what Corso was trying to express, and ended up calling the students a bunch of assholes.