The movie is definitely on my list, yeah. I’ll check it out. And I heard that This Perfect Day got more mixed reviews than most of his stuff.

I’m on an Ira Levin kick right now. I just finished The Stepford Wives, now I’m reading The Boys From Brazil with a work friend. It’s really good.

Man, Blindsight is a trip. It wasn’t an easy read for me, but I really enjoyed it.

The irony here is that the Luddites used machines. Nobody was weaving by hand in those days. Their grievance was not with machines in and of themselves, but with the machines being used to create an inferior product and oppress workers. Do you see the connection?

I read about that, yeah. All hail Mammon; money above all. Sometimes I think wealth changes something in a person’s brain, like psychologically or neurologically. It’s as if they get so detached from reality that they lose all empathy and sense of community. I’ve heard the term ‘affluenza’ used as a joke, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense as a legitimate thing.