GR: screaming

[David Meury]

Of screams, existential angst, Luddism, and the city
of woe - - - 

Rcfchess wrote:

>>Also, this may be obvious or already mentioned
(?)[see, Paul Mackin Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:59:09 -0400],
but "The Scream" is, of course, a very famous painting
by Edvard Munch, depicting existential angst, which
has 
become well-known and symbolic, so it's possibly
another level on which the word operates as well...?!
Anyone have  any thoughts on that?<<

You might substitute an alternate technological
analogy in the following:

"Our present civilization is a gigantic motor car
moving along a one-way road at an ever accelerating
speed.  Unfortunately as now constructed the car lacks
both steering wheel and brakes, and the only form of
control the driver exercises is making the car go
faster, though in his fascination with the machine
itself and his commitment to achieving the highest
speed possible, he has quite forgotten the purpose of
his journey. This state of helpless submission to the
economic and technological mechanisms modern man has
created is curiously disguised as progress, freedom,
and the mastery of man over nature."

Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1961)



		
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