Chapter 45: Body & Soul

[David Morris]

Scott,

Please please please expand on this quote.  It sounds very Platonian (if 
that is an adjective).  Plato is always a good jumping point.

David Morris

>From: "Scott Badger"
>
>Terrance:
> >   They become artificial objects posing as humans, a poor
> >   substitute for humanity, yet fully acceptable in the
> >   decadent world or in Fausto's terms, a world "moving towards
> >   non-humanity." This non-humanity is not, as so many have
> >   argued, simply Pynchon's Borgs or Terminators,
> >   human/machines, humans with plastic parts.  The process is
> >   not mechanical and the humans are not machines, but are
> >   humans in a world that no longer recognizes or in is the process > >   
>of losing their humanity.
>
>By way of Mr. Albert:
>"*Pure* Civilization [as a succession to Culture], as a historical process, 
>consists in a progressive exhaustion of forms that have become inorganic or 
>dead."    Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West


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