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Philosopher mentioned in the film "Cloud Atlas"

  • 10-04-2013 11:12AM
    #1
    breadmonkey
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    Hi,

    I was wondering if someone could help me track this down. Basically, the film contains a quote from a Russian philosopher that goes something like:

    "You can control a man if you let him have something. Take away everything and he is no longer controllable???"

    Anyone know who this is? If nothing, it'd be interesting to see just how badly I've butchered that quote:pac:


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  • #2
    Black Swan
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    Not sure of the origin of your quote.

    Not a Russian, rather an Oklahoman, Ken Wilber greatly influenced the plots found in Cloud Atlas. In his Sex, Ecology, Spirituality he attempted to merge the empirical with the mystical in an evolving consciousness. Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell appears to have been influenced by Wilber, as well an assortment of other philosophers, including Karl Marx.


  • #3
    mzonei
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    IT was Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. ;)


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