This school is ancient: Heraclitus and Sappho both belonged to it, but there is little or no record of it because the school abolished itself many times over the course of history and the Platonists destroyed all references to it. Plato and his gang were from the other school, which maintained that if anything interesting happened, it was a disaster bound to alter everything for the worse. The only things that happened, according to them, happened a long time ago and everything after that was anticlimactic. We Heracliteans beat up on the Platonists whenever we see them skulking around the agora: The only drawback after that excitement is that tedium returns. We swing between tedium and terror but have some terrific moments in-between. Take yesterday in Tulsa: I met the manager of a drugstore photo shop who pointed out an old man leaning on a knobby cane before a rack of hunting magazines. “Yesterday,” the photo manager said, “he brought in a stack of 1920s photographs of ballerinas.
What do You think about The Devil Never Sleeps (2011)?
