{"id":22041,"date":"2016-10-16T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22041"},"modified":"2016-10-16T19:08:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T00:08:38","slug":"anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22041","title":{"rendered":"Anthem!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anthem!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"salient-epsilon-theory-ben-hunt-anthem-october-14-2016-alien\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Ash<\/strong>:<\/td>\nYou still don\u2019t understand what you\u2019re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lambert<\/strong>:<\/td>\nYou admire it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ash<\/strong>:<\/td>\nI admire its purity. A survivor \u2026 unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parker<\/strong>:<\/td>\nLook, I am \u2026 I\u2019ve heard enough of this, and I\u2019m asking you to pull the plug.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[Ripley goes to disconnect Ash, who interrupts]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ash<\/strong>:<\/td>\nLast word.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ripley<\/strong>:<\/td>\nWhat?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ash<\/strong>:<\/td>\nI can\u2019t lie to you about your chances, but\u2026 you have my sympathies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2015 \u201cAlien\u201d (1979)<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Det. \u2018George\u2019 Francisco<\/strong>:<\/td>\nYou humans are very curious to us. You invite us to live among you in an atmosphere of equality that we\u2019ve never known before. You give us ownership of our own lives for the first time and you ask no more of us than you do of yourselves. I hope you understand how special your world is, how unique a people you humans are. Which is why it is all the more painful and confusing to us that so few of you seem capable of living up to the ideals you set for yourselves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u2015<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAlien Nation\u201d (1988)<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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\"salient-epsilon-theory-ben-hunt-anthem-october-14-2016-karl-marx\"<\/p>\n

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt\u2014your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.<\/p>\n

\u2015<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Karl\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Marx on Alienation, \u201cEconomic Manuscripts\u201d (1844)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anthem! Ash: You still don\u2019t understand what you\u2019re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. Lambert: You admire it. Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor \u2026 unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Parker: Look, I am \u2026 I\u2019ve heard enough of this, and I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14480,14481,14482,971,10321,1806,11737,14483,5139,12365,2071,14484,14485,14486],"class_list":["post-22041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-alien","tag-alienation","tag-anthem","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ben-hunt","tag-bubble","tag-epsilon-theory","tag-james-baldwin","tag-marx","tag-oswald","tag-reset","tag-rhett-butler","tag-slacker","tag-videogame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22043,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22041\/revisions\/22043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}