Brave New Sphere
 

An observation: This site seems to have become a cyberspace version of the Cyprus experiment mentioned in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World.

In Chapter XVI, John Savage asks the World Controller Mustapha Mond, “Why don’t you make everybody an Alpha Double Plus while you’re about it?”

Mond laughs and replies, “Because we have no wish to have our throats cut,” and then adds, “a society of Alphas couldn’t fail to be unstable and miserable.” Mond then goes on to describe how the Cyprus experiment proved in actual practice what was obvious theoretically.

O brave new Sphere that has such people in it!

Richard Meyer

Yes, Richard. It is a Brave New Sphere. Perhaps you should also have made the Orwellian connection, since writings and people have a way of suddenly disappearing as if they never existed.

Regards,

Richard

Come sit beside me, I said to myself,
and although it doesn't make sense,
I held my own hand in a small sign of trust,
and together I sat on the fence.


(I talk among myself all the time, Richard!)

Cally

Sphere posts have been getting so convoluted lately (apparently in an effort to hurl insults without naming names), that I often don't know what anyone is talking about, and therefore spend most of my time in the lighthearted section on drills and amusements...

Doubleplusungood, indeed.

Lighthearted? Light verse is serious business. And remember, the Speccie is paying £30 these days. Think what you can do with £30. Well, you can buy four bottles of gin and still have change left for a Kit-Kat

Gin?! I thought you were half-Irish! (No, that was your spouse. I'm sure she has better taste. *wink*)

Actually, I like gin. Fights the malaria that afflicts us here in Wisconsin.

Kevin

Edit: Oh, you have to add tonic for the medicinal effect.

Dear Cally

I suffer from a similar affliction which means I sometimes speak my private thoughts out loud. I am working extra specially hard at the moment to overcome that.

No - it isn't Tourette's syndrome!

But Gail is right. The distance between the said and the unsaid is becoming very great around here.

I am making a great effort not to repeat previous admitted mistakes but I would be very interested to hear Alex's own take on recent events around here.

Janet, as I know personally, is one of the most temperate of people. Rose doesn't take fools gladly but equally does not take offence easily (or at least gives as good as she gets).

Even someone who was maintaining a healthy detachment from all this couldn't fail to notice that something is going rotten.

Moderation==moderation.

Simple equation.

This is a good site fundamentally, and a serious one. I can't think of anywhere I'd rather expose my soft poetical underbelly. But there most definitely IS a problem.

This is Alex's site and he's entitled to run it any which way he chooses so I think it would be simplest if we heard from him.

Philip

PS - post saved in case removed

nevermind.....

just a thanks to Alex for all the years he's let us play here and a hope that we all remember that we're old enough to relearn how to play together.

Come sit beside me, the double-coat TimTam
called as the mug pwoofed a hot-choklit sigh,
so I held out my hands in a small sign of trust,
and we dunked as we mourned times gone by.