The Sociopathic Epidemic

American Thinker ^ | November 4, 2009 | Robin of Berkeley

[Ronbo1948]

I'm amazed by the soothsayers: Ayn Rand, for instance, who warned us fifty years ago of the risk of dictatorship or civil war if collectivism persisted. Or economist Friedrich Hayek, who wrote in the 1940s that we'll become serfs if we move toward big government.

However, what feels most prophetic lately is an obscure movie from the l970s called Little Murders. The writer, Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, predicted that the '60s would unleash a feral, primitive society.

The movie has a checkered history. It started out as a play on Broadway in the mid-'60s that was such a bomb, it closed after seven performances.

Audiences were shocked and horrified by the apocryphal world presented. At the time, New York's elite were celebrating the sexual revolution and the loosening of social mores. In contrast, Feiffer envisioned an eventual train wreck -- a nihilistic world of little and big murders of the soul.

[stephenjohnbanker]

A fine piece of writing. Thanks for the ping.

[grey_whiskers]

The next act is dictatorship...The Left thinks the dictatorship they have worked for over so many years will be Leftist, but they may have awakened the sleeping giant of American Republicanism that will sweep them into early graves, prisons and exile.

Holy sh*t.