* My work is not directed to intellectuals, but to what are called ‘ordinary people.’ And in fact what I expect from them is exactly what they are, that they should understand the world and act according to their decent impulses. And that they should try to improve the world.
* I’m helping people develop intellectual self-defense… I don’t mean go to school, because you’re not going to get it there… It means that you have to develop an independent mind, and work on it. That’s extremely hard to do alone… The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube. It’s very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can’t fight the world alone. Some people can, but it’s pretty rare. The way to do it is through organization.
*The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication, and should use this power as they tell us they must – namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved, or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured, they may well be essential to survival.
黑白的畫面。從高處鳥瞰,是百餘個人,倒臥在看不見底的地板上。鏡頭逐漸向低移近,於是我們會想起「人肉橫流」這成語。雖然他們看上去又年輕又恬靜,穿著閃亮的舞衣,卻像一大群熟睡的嬰兒。PSB站在他們當中,冷酷荒謬的造型,冰冷的唱著歌。音樂節奏加速的一瞬,人群倏地昇起,如mirror ball折射的光線照亮整個突如其來的clubbing scene,照亮他們笑著吻著舞著的臉孔和身體。他們看來那麼快活。彷彿夜未央,他們可以輕盈地年輕到永遠。然音樂過場時,他們又集體倒下,躺在地上閉上眼睛沉沉睡去。為甚麼這MV會有那一份純真和憐憫?唱片名稱就叫Nightlife而流行曲節奏明快地唱著,u only tell me u love me when u’re drunk……
自他帶著那一隻Pop Art DVD來讓我看到這個MV,偶然就會想起,又很想放出來給朋友一起看。可是沒辦法,只得用簡陋的形容堆砌出我的印象。