Cultural is our business 35 Anthony Jay quotes “Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?” as insight into the tendency of people to reduce all reality to their own dimensions and interests. The cat didn’t see the Queen, but saw a little mouse under the royal chair. Such is the clue in the headline: “Did Not Believe Nazis Killing Jews: The German Chancellor heard it all as Allied propaganda.” (Kiesinger, Toronto Globe and Mail, July 5/68) E.R.Leach, the anthropologist, notes that mere classification as “immoral” rendered 80,000 elegant London courtesans quite invisible to Dickens and his readers. They were a tourist attraction famous throughout Europe…. In the same way, both Stalin and Hitler were looked upon as saints by millions of their fellow countrymen, even in the midst of the holocaust…the Russian and German peoples simply “refused to know” , Oxford what was going on right under their noses.” (Runaway World? Press, 1968) Since Sputnik, the earth has been wrapped in a dome-like blanket or bubble. Nature ended. Art took over the ambidextrous universe. We continue to talk of a machine world.
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