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rebus's review
2.5
It's not all that interesting after having read Moore's bio from around that same time. It's fortunately mostly Moore's words, because the interviewer is insufferable in the intro, the kind of moron who quotes Steve Martin (why can't we dance about architecture is what I have to ask Mr. Martin?). It explains why both the interviewer and Moore can't stand critics.
While I've always held the same notion as Moore about all words being propaganda--hence not necessarily always white magic--I would point out that the written language first flowered in the form of religious texts to support the world's first monotheistic religion, which is what truly ushered fascism and our class based society into the world, the greatest evil in human history (which makes it all the more ironic that Moore has made a large part of his career out of portraying them as victims of the Nazis). The primal technology, as he calls language and storytelling, didn't codify it into a manageable written form until after the failure of Egypt to establish Aten as a sort of single god (it was unfortunately still an animistic god in the age of glyphs).
I'm also pretty sure that Frans DeWaal would disagree with Moore about consciousness requiring language.
While I've always held the same notion as Moore about all words being propaganda--hence not necessarily always white magic--I would point out that the written language first flowered in the form of religious texts to support the world's first monotheistic religion, which is what truly ushered fascism and our class based society into the world, the greatest evil in human history (which makes it all the more ironic that Moore has made a large part of his career out of portraying them as victims of the Nazis). The primal technology, as he calls language and storytelling, didn't codify it into a manageable written form until after the failure of Egypt to establish Aten as a sort of single god (it was unfortunately still an animistic god in the age of glyphs).
I'm also pretty sure that Frans DeWaal would disagree with Moore about consciousness requiring language.
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