Greetings Terrence--Jesus Christ hanging on the Cross for the sins of mankind, Jesus Christ raised from the dead, Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and Jesus Christ sitting at the right hand of God--that is reality.
Only by accepting and recognizing reality will you ever become a rational creature. At present, you are infatuated with the concept of "rationality" but you don't have the slightest idea of what it is.
American Mythology has consumed your soul. You not only subscribe to every American myth but you go to the heart and make each myth your own.
Like an unimprinted ducking, if it moves, you follow. They wave blind Ayn before you, and you follow.
When you hungered for "irrational exuberance", they gave you Milt.
When you desired a hero to help you feel puffed up, they presented you with TJ.
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The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the WORD
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God
Were is the Life we have lost in living
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farher from God and nearer to the Dust.
TS Eliot |
