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By William S. Burroughs
In 1980, William S. Burroughs added a speech on the Planet Earth convention on the Institute of Ecotechnics in Aix-en-Provence titled ‘The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse’.1 during this speech, Burroughs, following spiritual culture, says that the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are Famine, Plague, conflict, and dying and strikes directly to prophesise a extra contemporaneous apocalypse. In Burroughs’ apocalypse, conflict and Plague, for instance, became allies; this alliance, Burroughs proclaims, ‘was cemented with the 1st germ experiments’ (Burroughs, 1984, p. 12). the chance of those experiments lies of their skill not to simply create new viruses yet to additionally flip them into organic guns. yet for Burroughs there's a major similarity among a twentieth-century-specific apocalypse, with its radiation and contaminants, and the spiritual apocalypse of the 4 horsemen. For Burroughs, either different types of apocalypse ‘have no which means open air of human context, they're in reality human inventions’ (p. 17). extra particularly, they're the fundamental flaws in what Burroughs calls the ‘human artifact’ (p. 17) and in our evolution as a species. For Burroughs, the one method out is to first needless to say our organic future ‘is in area, and that our failure to accomplish this is often the elemental flaw within the human artifact’ (p. 24). This speech constitutes Burroughs’ first visual appeal within the scene as an apocalyptist. prior to this, he was once most sensible often called one of many primary participants of the Beat iteration stream, because the exponent of sickness and drug abuse, or, besides Brion Gysin, as one of many first practitioners of ‘cut-ups’ in literature. yet he was once by no means thought of to be an apocalyptist prior to this speech.
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It was as if the New York Times was sending a signal to its readers and the nation's opinion leaders: Get off the war on terror and focus on the economy. It's the way for the Democrats to win. Deliberately or not, this survey was one of the most heavily weighted that the newspaper conducted during the year. 4 percent Democratic edge in the survey sample. This five-point "correction," of course, had a very direct impact on the data and the resulting conclusions that the Times published as fact. Still, despite weighting the sample, the newspaper's thesis that the national agenda had shifted away from terror and toward the economy ran into difficulty from the very start of the survey.
Then, as our troops raced through the Iraqi desert, bypassing towns and cities as they rushed toward Baghdad, the media told us that the military had made what might prove a fatal mistake in opening up our supply lines to harassment by enemy guerrillas left behind in the dash to the enemy's capital. No less a military authority than CBS's Lesley Stahl lectured Secretary of State and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on the March 26 edition of 48 Hours that the American "rear was exposed" and our supply lines in danger.
From the beginning, the Times had been pushing the idea on Americans and their opinion leaders that the economy was getting worse. Yet somehow this concern never caught on with the American people. In fact, in the October poll, respondents said, by 59-39, that it wasn't getting worse. Asked how the economy had changed recently, only 39 percent said it was "getting worse," 46 percent said it was "staying about the same," and 13 percent felt it was "getting better"for a total of 59 percent who felt it wasn't deteriorating.