Though the Ramones were celebrated as the quintessential New York punk band, ostensibly a band of brothers playing short but explosive sets of brutally minimal songs, there was method behind their facade of mindlessness.
In its sheer mindlessness, it was, in a way, even more depressing (see article).In this section Anarchy in the UK Central bankers to the rescue?
That would favour games of skill over the mindlessness of slot machines.
In fact, the Kremlin often defends its actions, particularly to foreigners, by pointing to the "mindlessness" of Russians and the lack of a strong civil society.
These people will see themselves not as isolated and irrelevant centers of consciousness at the heart of universal mindlessness but as integral parts of an organic world, in which the potentialities of mind have always been present.
Although it may express a strong ironic disapproval of collective mindlessness, the object of criticism is the mindlessness rather than the conformity.
What Wittgenstein found offensive in his friend's simile, Frankfurt guesses, was its mindlessness: "Her fault is not that she fails to get things right, but that she is not even trying".
When I woke up, they were gone, leaving a stench of sweaty mindlessness behind.
The mindlessness of both the goal & the procedures for reaching it were of less importance to those who went along with the proposal than were their weariness of trying to reduce the deficit any other way.
Nearly as appalling as Netanyahu's intransigence was the mindlessness of the senators and representatives, Republican and Democratic, who rewarded him with ovation after standing ovation.
On the advice of an artist friend, I tried for a while to regard Rubens's art as a force of nature, no more reproachable for its mindlessness than are summer clouds, or a waterfall.
