Comments by "" (@stevenwiederholt7000) on "The Book Club: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with Sen. Ted Cruz | The Book Club" video.
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Demolition Man
Edgar Friendly:
You got that right. See, according to Cocteau's plan, I'm the enemy.
Cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and
freedom of choice. I'm the kind if guy who wants to sit in a greasy
spoon and think, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack
of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high
cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese, okay? I
want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in a non-smoking
section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jello all over
my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel
the need to. Okay, pal? I've seen the future, you know what it is? It's a
47-year-old virgin sittin' around in his beige pajamas, drinking a
banana-broccoli shake singing "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener". You wanna
live on top, you gotta live Cocteau's way. What he wants, when he wants,
how he wants. Your other choice: come down here, maybe starve to death
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Jade Runner
I have no answer. If it is any consolation Paul asked a similar question 2000 years ago
"15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."
Paul's Letter to The Romans 7:15
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