NP - Appropriating HG Wells

[Michael Bailey]

well, I always thought it was like, about the moral deadening
attendant on denizens of an "upperclass" of any kind; insulated from
reality by the wealth they've expropriated, they lose their competence
and become prey...

and I thought Wells kind of agreed with their fate...





On 4/19/06, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> When Conflicting Civilizations CollideBy Dennis Byrne
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> In H.G. Wells' "Time Machine," the helplessly fattened Eloi spend most of
> their time waiting around their pleasant surroundings to be snatched away by
> cannibal Morlocks. Those succulent pinkish Eloi who luckily aren't invited
> for dinner this time can only wait their turn, not so much in fear,
> but--simpletons that they are--in resigned ignorance.
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> Though he wrote it more than 100 years ago, Wells nonetheless had many of
> today's Americans nailed. Today's Eloi are Americans whose only "strategy"
> for dealing with the dreadful and grisly terrorist assaults on us is to pull
> back and wait for the next one.
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> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/when_conflicting_civilizations.html
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> Those unfamiliar with the politics of H. G. Wells might want to check it
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