In this segment from the pinnacle of his work and study, his 350,000-word opus, A Ball of Twine: Marcel Duchamp’s With Hidden Noise, Kurt expounded upon matters historical, ecological and social, extensively quoting Doctor Helen Caldicott (above), whose many books warning about the dangers of nuclear weapons and corporate greed earned Kurt’s admiration. Kurt’s own views matched Caldicott’s, as noted in this excerpt.
“If destruction of the global ecosystem is at all a ‘business,’” he writes, “then it is a bad business and must stop. If the nature of the job leads to leeching lead into groundwater, producing generations of sickly, sad and suffering children with their poor brains malformed and their bodies wracked with wretched pain, and poisoning the Earth itself, then these are jobs no one should be doing.”
