Quote of the Day | 0105
Apocalyptic scenarios are a diversion from real problems — poverty, terrorism, broken financial systems — needing intelligent attention. Even something as down-to-earth as the swine-flu scare has seemed at moments to be less about testing our health care system and its emergency readiness than about the fate of a diseased civilization drowning in its own fluids. We wallow in the idea that one day everything might change in, as St. Paul put it, the “twinkling of an eye” — that a calamity might prove to be the longed-for transformation.
Denis Dutton, ‘It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It‘
[x]#6739 fan dinsdag 5 januari 2010 @ 09:20:39
