My 2 cents'

I love heroic couplets. If I remember right, one of the things that Pope was complaining about in The Dunciade was the admixture between the high and the low, the merging of the sacred and the profane. We have quite a bit of that today. Indeed, a synthesis between the two is considered healthy.

One of the things that leaves people screaming, I think, is that we have become so successful in mastering our environment, so successful in abstracting out the minutiaea of our physical world and manipulating them, but our bodies and consciousness haven't evolved as fast as our problem solving skills. We're still apes, but we now possess thermonuclear weapons. This leaves anyone with a lick of sense crawling out his skin.

in reference to: Harry Magnet's Blog: The Triumph of Dullness (view on Google Sidewiki)