Friday, January 3, 2003

Contemplating Hell Comments

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Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,
My brother Shelley found it to be a place
Much like the city of London. I,
Who do not live in London, but in Los Angeles,
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Bertolt Brecht
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Andrew Hoellering 03 December 2009

Brecht was perceptive when it came to capitalist society -he knew his Karl Marx -and scathing about the pursuit of profit for its own end in the consumer society- his last two verses especially remain appropriate to today. Such insights however failed him when it came to communist dictatorships.

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Bertolt Brecht

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