Sunday, November 22, 2009


An observation from 1929 on the American mindset

"Nothing in America is so painful to the traveler as the lack of joy. Pleasure is frantac and bacchanalian, a matter of temporary oblivion, not of delighted self-expression. Men whose grandfathers danced to the pipe in Balkan or Polish villages sit throughout the day glued to their desks, amid typewriters and telephones, serious, important and worthless. Escaping in the evening to drink and a new kind of noise, they imagine they are finding happiness, whereas they are only finding a frenzied and incomplete oblicion of the hopeless routine of money that breeds money, using for the purpose the bodies of human beings whose souls have been sold into slavery."

Betrand Russel


# posted by intcoex : 2:24 PM




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