Personal reflections on daily life, political and artistic issues by a middle-aged man who feels the need to step back from corporate life and think a little harder about the things that matter.
"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." - John Macnaughton ***** "Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plentitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties ... What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more." - Susan Sontag ***** "It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein ***** "For every complex question there is a simple answer, and it is wrong." - H. L. Mencken
Interesting post on Watching the Watchers suggests that one reason people aren't as likely to be outraged by the war today as they were in the 1960s is the prevalence of antidepressants and other mood-altering pharmaceuticals. Harder to be outraged when you're on a drug that prevents you from being enraged at all...
posted by David W. Karpook @ 8:48 AM
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