Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
> I thought that this was very insightful and fairly subtle social
> commentary, but now I wonder: was this theme also directly
> related to the "nature red in tooth and claw" philosophy we later
> found espoused by a certain other, shadowy, crowd? Or, maybe, just
> showing that certain ideas pop up all over? Oh, yeah: one more
> question: is the character Captain Jack a reference to the Billy
> Joel song of the same name? Later, after seeing _Intersections in
> Real Time_: did I see, in a scene near the end involving a
> gurney, a tip of the hat to a scene, also towards the end, in a
> Frankenheimer film, recently released to video, that you've
> mentioned admiring?

I think those are pretty much no's across the board.

jms