The Physicists
October 27th, 2004
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This show has a few good actors and a handful of inexperienced actors. Felt a little rough but the set and effects were nice. What I find particularly interesting is his view that knowledge is always used for better evil. That the smartest thing a genius can do is to withhold his knowledge for mankind to survive a few more decades. But a genius, as he says, is public property: he has to share his genius with the world because we have so few of them. A genius is also not a prophet or a psychic: he can’t tell for certain what mankind is up to – good or bad.
I wonder why Friedrich Durrenmatt has such a bleak view of mankind. If mankind is indeed driving itself to destruction, it will. Whether quicker or slower, in this lifetime or the next, is irrelevant. Any move to stop it, is futile. Man will be extinct eventually, this I believe. But I just can’t see that the extinction is due to his own efforts.
