“I had barely seen a horror film. I was frightfully serious. I had come out of the theatre, my background had been the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, and then I got into television in the middle 1960s. I had done quality television, Plays Department and things. I was fairly earnest and arty so I wasn’t really into genre. We didn’t talk about genre so much in those days anyway; everybody talks about genre now. But I wasn’t really into genre.”
What are we saying the threshold for a general strike is? The famous general strike in 1926 was 1.7 million workers (yes, smaller population, etc etc).
“While truth, when contemplated as a totality, is so vast as to transcend man’s ability to grasp it in all its fullness and glory, there are, nevertheless, individual truths, sparks from the great All-truth, quite within the range of his mental vision, which, if discovered and obeyed, will light his pathway through the world and make his life successful and happy.”
— Frederick Douglass, “It Moves (1883)” (via philosophybits)
