I wanted to post links to some articles that I have either mentioned, or articles that we have read as a class that relate in some way to our study of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
- “Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations,’” by Adam Liptak
- “Bad Connections,” by Christine Rosen
Today’s personal technologies, particularly the cellphone and the digital video recorder, have not provoked similar worries. They are marvels of individual choice, convenience and innovation; they represent the democratization of the power of the machine . . . In a rebuke to Marx, we have not become the alienated slaves of the machine; we have made the machines more like us and in the process toppled decades of criticism about the dangerous and potentially enervating effects of our technologies.
Or have we?
- “Clueless in America,” by Bob Herbert
- “Ken Kesey, Checking In on His Famous Nest” by David D. Kirkpatrick
But it was not his favorite production, he added. That designation he reserved for a production he saw 15 years ago at a Sacramento high school, staged so that an elaborate display of grinding cogs and gears appeared in silhouette between scenes to illustrate the play’s sinister ”Combine,” a metaphor for society’s grinding machinery.
”I gave that one the A,” he said.
