Monday, November 14, 2011

a farmer strolls down the urban boulevard

The historical precondition for the theatre of indifference is that everyone is consciously and helplessly dependent in most areas of their life on the opinions and decisions of others.  To put it symbolically:  the theatre is built upon the ruins of the forum.  Its precondition is the failure of democracy.  The indifference is the result of the inevitable divergence of personal fantasies when isolated from any effective social action.  The indifference is born of the equation between excessive mobility of private fantasy and social political stasis.

-  John Berger (Selected essays)  -  The Theatre of Indifference

2 comments:

jh said...

can't believe this inspired no discussion whatsoever

sally said...

this one was over my head

i don't really understand
what he is talking about