Science fiction writer Ben Bova wrote:
The most prescient — and chilling — of all the science fiction stories ever written, though, is “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1951. It should be required reading in every school on Earth.

The point that Kornbluth makes is simple, and scary: dumbbells have more children than geniuses. In “The Marching Morons” he carries that idea to its extreme, but logical, conclusion.

Kornbluth tells of a future world that is overrun with dummies: men and women who don’t know anything beyond their own shallow personal interests. They don’t know how their society works, or who is running it. All they care about is their personal — and immediate — gratification.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Flashback Friday

Seeing as this is my first Friday since the Marching Morons debut,(clapping, balloons, confetti, dancing girls who have wardrobe malfunctions) Friday's will include a post that will take us back in time. It may refer to a personal experience or just a song or video clip.
So for this weeks topic, it will be on a personal note, and I will take us back to the early 70's when my oldest brother Norm took me down to a commune in Warwick, Massachusetts called "The Brotherhood Of The Spirit". I'm not sure of the exact year that I visited all I know is my mother was bullshit that her oldest son Norm, took her youngest son, me, down to a hippie place right after my brother Bob, turned into a hippie, quit high school to live on a hippie bus with hippie Norm. So this didn't fit well with Mom.....and can anyone blame her.
Being 11 or 12 years old I don't recall a whole heck of a lot about how long we stayed or how many times we went. Norm was a very adventurist type of person and he always found some off the wall, out of the norm you could say, trip for us to take. This was one.
They had a band called "Spirit In The Flesh" and played free concerts where ever they could and Norm and I tagged along from place to place for most of that summer. They did play at the JFK in ManchVegas and I got to be a stage hand......farout man.
So a few months ago, don't know why but Spirit In The Flesh popped in my head so I decided to google it.
Farfuckinout man. What memories that stirred up. The bus, the buildings......the hippies......man, it really was cool cuz it was a part of my life that I kinda forgot about.






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Oh the memories.........


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  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2010 at 5:40 PM

    That is very cool Mark, I am glad that Norm broke the rules and took you!
    Dawn

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  2. MarkDJanuary 24, 2010 at 9:12 AM

    Is it wine time?

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