4:10:22

On resistance & nonconformity. My favorite attributes.

Aldous Huxley in a letter to George Orwell about 1984, 1949:

"I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large scale biological and atomic war — in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds."

Read the entire letter here.


Tim Kreider on Stanley Kubrick, "Introducing Sociology: A Review of Eyes Wide shut," 2000:

"Asked about Alex's fondness for Ludwig Van in A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick answered, 'I think this suggests the failure of culture to have any morally refining effect on society. Many top Nazis were cultured and sophisticated men, but it didn't do them, or anyone else, much good.' This point is reprised overtly in Eyes Wide Shut when we hear the title of a Beethoven opera used as the password to an orgy."

Robert Stein on Pauline Kael, Newsweek, 1966:

"I knew she was extremely critical when I hired her. But her reviews became more and more uniformly unfavorable--not only to all films, but questioning the motives of the people who made the films."


Andy Summers on the problem of doing too much press, 1981