Entertainment Bomb
Colin Bennett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One thing is sure. Entertainment is important. Without it, the entire human race would go mad within a matter of hours.”
“[The] staff of thirty-two men and twenty-five women, with their lavish planning, communications, and computer facilities, were paid for by a hardly detectable pinhead of a pattern within a mighty blizzard of Treasury accountancy-noise. The few very clever chappies who happened to come across this pinhead in their too-clever-by-a-half line of duty, tended to look at their lovely house and glowing family over the breakfast table, and think it might just be even more clever not to reveal their interesting discovery. Perhaps such stout fellows had made even more significant finds than this, and had decided that the night-side of a modern industrialised democratic nation was such an astonishing animal that it was best left to roam in the bush alone, quite invisible and undisturbed, a ghost whose occasional thumps in the night were best well ignored”
“The financial world as moral example, she thought. Well, wonders would never cease”
“She cared for Britain. It took a lot for an Irish Catholic woman to say that. But she thought it was better to live in the agony of a permanent mental and physical cauldron than die slowly of television.”
“Quite hypnotising a somewhat popeyed circle, he declared that there was no such thing as fantasy. There was a scale of illusions, declared he, which could be more or less solid according to the way they were sold.”
“Like any decent reconaissance agent, he had fought his way into trouble in order to fight his way out”
“Legitimacy is the perfect cover”
“In love or pain, in joy and sadness, in loss and achievement, a Traveller along the Entertainment Leys joining these domains, these zones and points of sympathy, will therefore never ever be alone. Rod Stewart's cousin might be near, or Elton John's grandfather might have died just up the road. Be it suffering or transcendent joy, an Entertainment Traveller is held in an intercontinental web of healing glory which doesn't cost a penny, and has absolutely no concern for your previous moral life. Entertainment Priests are not deeply troubled men in nightshirts, most of whom have so many psychological problems before breakfast their personal depression nearly kills them promoting the comedown, the comeback, the punishment, the price to be paid at the toll gates of both sides of the schism. If the new Entertainment Priests are not fun, there is an absolute lock on their spiritual progress. They have to be Entertainers first and foremost, and they are to cast out of the temple the depressing landscape of fear and guilt and horrorof the Old Analogue Age, which was the pre-Entertainment Time. As Entertainment Citizens we will come to see that this past was a bleak landscape in which everything was poisoned, gassed, and strangled. It was a psychopath's world of tortured animals and old iron of industrial and scientific determinism. Now, like a billion-ton ice-pack, this spiritual hell is beginning a perceptible shift of paradigm into a landscape of purest Entertainment Legend.”
“Human legs, Annie, are always too short, toes never fit, and people are thankfully almost always totally preoccupied with either subversion, defiance or escape.”
“How long, she asked, was this fraudulent stage-show called science to go on producing its 'closer and closer' approximations to an 'absolute and disinterested' truth? How long was the 'déception rationale', the con trick of objectivism to be practiced?”
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plans, sanity, clergy, fantasy, escape, government, cover, entertainment, human-race, television-slow-death, scale-of-illusions, legitimacy, intelligence, creative-accounting, analogue-world, secrecy, objectivism, satireue-world, science
