Re: If you liked the Aldous Huxley . . . maybe . . .
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"Lately though I'm not quite so convinced that the great narratives of religion deserve the priveleged light in which Postman would cast them."Never underestimate the value of myth to mankind. Part of what makes us what we are is how we construct and deconstruct them and what a strange parallel shoots through that to our build and destroy behavior. There, now, I kept that short...ha!
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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"Lately though I'm not quite so convinced that the great narratives of religion deserve the priveleged light in which Postman would cast them."Never underestimate the value of myth to mankind. Part of what makes us what we are is how we construct and deconstruct them and what a strange parallel shoots through that to our build and destroy behavior. There, now, I kept that short...ha!
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
