[Oratam]

There is suggested a sharp dichotomy between our “genuine”, slow-paced past based on human relationships, rugged individualism, and aesthetics, and a soulless modern era emphasizing division, distrust, and conformity at the same time. This dichotomy, which was only then emerging in Britain and the West as it had earlier in the USSR, was among McGoohan’s main themes in producing the show.”

There is a great interview of Patrick McGoohan on YouTube from the late '70s on Canadian television. He loses his cool right off the bat as he describes the security he passed through at the tv station.

McGoohan recognized the diminution of the individual early on. He would have found present day life unbearable.

[TEXOKIE]

There is suggested a sharp dichotomy between our “genuine”, slow-paced past based on human relationships, rugged individualism, and aesthetics, and a soulless modern era emphasizing division, distrust, and conformity at the same time. This dichotomy, which was only then emerging in Britain and the West as it had earlier in the USSR, was among McGoohan’s main themes in producing the show.”
There is a great interview of Patrick McGoohan on YouTube from the late ‘70s on Canadian television. He loses his cool right off the bat as he describes the security he passed through at the tv station.

McGoohan recognized the diminution of the individual early on. He would have found present day life unbearable.

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Thanks for the great insight! He would have been maddened and overcome - just as so many of US are! But by God’s grace, we remain with a modicum of balance and we managed to obtain a FIGHTER for our White House.... and WE WILL WIN!

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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