ellauri072.html on line 477: What will happen when the age-old economy of scarcity gives way to the Age of Leisure? Professor Gabor, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for physics offers a futuristic projection based on a static population and GNP, "classless, democratic, and uniformly rich." Fearful that total secruity "will create unbearable boredom and bring out the worst in Irrational Man," Gabor is anxious to retain "effort," "hardship," and the Protestant Ethic -- lest society dissolve in an orgy of anti-social, hedonistic nihilism (viz. the current drug explosion and the spoiled-brat students). To avoid such evils Gabor proposes that work and its attendant moral uplift be divorced from production and the service sector of the economy be vastly enlarged. But this is only the beginning -- enthusiastic about Social Engineering Gabor suggests using it to weed out potential misfits, trouble-makers and "power addicts"; supplementing I.Q. tests with E.Q. (Ethical Quotient) measurements; and modeling elementary and secondary education on the 19th century British public school which knew so well how to inculcate good citizenship, intellectual excellence and pride in achievement. The Third World, still wrestling with pre-industrial material want, is ignored -- since we can't afford any more industrial pollution presumably they will just have to adjust to their misery. Gabor's assessment of "the Nature of Man" shows a woefully naive Anglo-American ethnocentricity and complete ignorance of anthropology and his vision of post-industrial utopia operating on the moral axioms of the 19th century is as elitist as it is improbable.
ellauri133.html on line 444: Stephen King’s It, in my estimation, does not do a very good job of justifying a chapter-long scene in which Bev, the sole girl in the Losers’ Club, the group of 11-year-old kids the book is centered on, invites each of the six boys in her misfit clique to have sex with her.
ellauri142.html on line 51: Markku is described as the fat, large-bodied, ungainly, and socially awkward illegitimate son of an old Russian grandee. He is educated in France and returns to Russia as a misfit. His unexpected inheritance of a large fortune makes him socially desirable. Markku is ensnared by the fortune-hunting Kristina Curagina, whose eventual deception leaves him depressed and confused, spurring a spiritual odyssey that spans the novel.
ellauri207.html on line 359: Meanwhile, Salander (Lisbet)´s sadistic guardian, Nils Bjurman, hires Zalachenko to kill Lisbeth. Bjurman himself is soon killed by Lisbet´s bro Ronald Niedermann, who with dad Zala, is lying in wait at a farm in Gåseborg to ambush Salander (Lisbet). During a brief confrontation Lisbeth is shot in the head and buried alive. She later climbs out zombie like and deals serious blows to Zala´s head and wooden leg with an axe. Their injuries are so serious they are both taken by air ambulance to a hospital where the next book picks up. But what a disappointment: Zalachenko is shot in the head in the same hospital as Lisbeth being treated for the grievous injuries he´s suffered, for having intentions to betray the Cesarean section of the Swedish secret service, el Sapo. The Swedes consider the superior intelligence he has as a Soviet defecator more important than dumb Agneta´s civil rights or those of her misfit daughter, so they have Lisbeth declared incompetent and institutionalized in order to protect him from her.
ellauri213.html on line 133: Riku Korhosen lääkäriromaani on väärällään kaikenlaisia vätyxiä ja misfittejä. Mutta samaa voi sanoa Embotelladosta! Mitä Waltin pullon henki tällä kertaa meille opettaa?
ellauri347.html on line 400: Jos ajattelet lukiota, saatat muistaa muutaman sopimattoman misfitin: Ne olivat todellisia kauhuelokuvien faneja. He ovat ehkä tehneet malleja kiduttamis laitteet ja giljotiinit. He rakastivat sotapelejä. He pistivät isku asiat järjestykseen kemiallisten sarjojensa kanssa. He saivat potkua kidutuksesta kuin pieneläimet. He arvostivat aseitaan. He olivat todella mekaanisia laitteita. Mitä kehittyneempää tekniikkaa oli, sitä onnellisempia he olivat. Beavis ja Butthead on mallinnettu näiden lasten mukaan.
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xxx/ellauri128.html on line 584: British Eugenics Society oli Darwinin serkun Sir Francis Galtonin aivopieruja. Galton ei selvinnyt laajennetusta matematiikasta ja lääkärinopinnotkin jäi sitten kesken. Tehdäänpä sensijaan nazimeisingillä selvää muista misfiteistä! Galtonin veljexiin kuului mm iljexet Julian ja Aldous Huxley, H.G.Wells, Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell ja Charles Darwin. "Man is gifted with pity and other kindly feelings; he has also the power of preventing many kinds of suffering. I conceive it to fall well within his province to replace Natural Selection by other processes that are more merciful and not less effective. This is precisely the aim of Eugenics.” Since wars begin in the minds of men and women, it is in the minds of men and women that the defences of peace must be constructed. (UNESCO)
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xxx/ellauri134.html on line 390: Weakness: aimless wandering, becoming a misfit
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