The Impatience of Joad
"BRAINS TRUST" is on the air again in Dunedin, and a broadcast by 4YA revealed the usual stimulating divergence of opinions which we have grown to expect from the famous fighters who participate. An enquiry regarding the de-bunking properties of philosophy (a quotation from Keats) led the members of the Brains Trust to a conclusion with which I agreed; that science may analyse a rainbow but can’t explain it away. It was pleasing to hear that the twin stars of mystery and imagination are not yet to be eclipsed. Another question, as to whether the world would be a better place if the aeroplane had never been invented, provided Professor Joad with an opportunity for one of his most pessimistic harangues. He contended not only that we ate immeasurably worse off because of the aeroplane, but that he could see no adequate reason why we should not be even worse off in the future. "Why does everybody imagine that people will suddenly start behaving in a better, more enlightened way than before? They never have!" Luckily for the listener’s peace of mind, other members of the Brains Trust took a more optimistic view of the future,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 311, 8 June 1945, Page 9
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