A Single Man: Making of a Single Man Page #2

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I found them staring at me

in a kind of bovine stupor...

...as if I were lecturing in

a foreign language.

Remind me why we shouldn't

all just be annihilated.

You seem to think this is all a joke.

We're living in a world where

nuclear war is a real threat.

I don't understand how

that doesn't concern you.

You're serious, aren't you?

Yes, I'm serious.

George did you even read the article

I gave you on bomb shelters?

Our is almost done. We had 3

contractors work on it...

...so none of them know what we've got.

I'm having the outside of it landscaped

so no one will that it's there.

Really?

If word gets out that

you've got a better shelter...

...then everyone will try to get in

when something happens.

So?

There will be no time for sentiment

when the Russians fire a missile at us.

If it's going to be a world with

no time for sentiment Grant...

...the it's not a world

that I want to live in.

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.

I think you've all...

...read the Huxley novel I assigned

more than three weeks ago?

How does the title relate to our story?

- Yes, Mr. Mong.

- It doesn't.

It's about a rich guy who's too

afraid that he's too old for this girl...

...and thinks that a young guy...

Russ.

Russ?

Yes, Mr. Hirsch.

Sir, on page 79, Mr. Propter says that...

...the stupidest text in the Bible is

they hated me without a cause.

Does that mean the Nazis were

right to hate the Jews?

- Is Huxley an anti-Semite?

- No.

No, Mr. Huxley is not an anti-Semite.

Of course, the Nazis were

wrong to hate the Jews.

But their hating the Jews

was not without a cause.

It's just that the cause wasn't real.

The cause was imagined.

The cause was fear.

Let's leave the Jews out o

this just for a moment.

Let's think of another minority.

One that...

One that can go unnoticed if it needs to.

There are all sorts of minorities,

blondes for example...

...or people with freckles.

But a minority is only

thought of as one...

...when it constitutes some kind of

threat to the majority.

A real threat or an imagined one.

And therein lies the fear.

If the minority is somehow invisible...

...and the fear is much greater.

That fear is why the

minority is persecuted.

So, you see there always is a cause.

The cause is fear.

Minorities are just people.

People like us.

I can see that I've lost you a bit.

So tell you what? We're gonna

forget about Mr. Huxley today...

...and we're gonna talk about fear.

Fear, after all, is our real enemy.

Fear is taking over our world.

Fear is being used as a tool of

manipulation in our society.

It's how politicians peddle policy.

It's how Madison Avenue sells us

things that we don't need.

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