Monday, January 09, 2023
Black Magic
Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002), Voices in the Labyrinth: Nature, Man, and Science (New York: The Seabury Press, 1977), pp. 27-28:
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The black magic of our days — these mass media concerned with both the production and the distribution of so-called news; these forever titillating and nauseating intimacies, splashing all over us from newspapers and magazines, from radio and television; this bubbling and babbling emptiness of deadened imagination — has taken hold of science, as of all other intellectual products of humanity. They have swallowed it up. It is easy to understand why today's youth experiences a revulsion from all these synthetic celebrities strutting on the television screens of the world, from the ever increasing pollution of our intellectual and our actual atmosphere.
