[A] people that lives in a collective state of denial of the obvious, or of what with a little study and dispassionate research would soon become obvious, is a people without a sustainable future. As SF writer Philip K. Dick said, in a speech aptly titled “How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart in Two Days,” later published in his masterful I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, January 19, 2015
That rattling noise in the engine of Western Civilization
David Solway has taken a long, unflinching look at the times in which we live, and makes some trenchant comments on the Great Unraveling. A sample:
FWIW, here's my take: “Reality is that which, when you stop making it up, doesn’t go away.”
ReplyDeleteYes, liberals, that is aimed squarely at you.
The problem is less with the people and more with their governments, who are either temperamentally inclined in favour of the problem (Washington) or, for reasons nobody can quite fathom, are too timid to speak up (Canberra).
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