Posted by Sigismund on December 11, 2008, at 16:01:11
In reply to Re: How's the war on cancer going? » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on December 11, 2008, at 14:09:41
The gains of war?
Yes, I've been thinking of how they distort the beneficiaries.
I never thought the Australia had ghosts.
I'd look at the country and think of all the people who had lived there and wonder why I could not feel their spirit.
The problem was, I was looking the wrong way.
If I'd looked behind me, or looked inside myself, I'd have seen that the ghosts were there, in the pretensions we had about ourselves: that we had this place in this world by reason of our virtues.I read this in EM Cioran
"Given the spectacle of their teeming success, the nations of the West had no trouble in exalting history, attributing to it a meaning and finality. It belonged to them, they were its agents: hence it must take a rational course.....Consequently they placed it under the patronage, by turns, of Providence, of Reason, and of Progress. What they lacked was a sense of fatality, which they are at last beginning to acquire, overwhelmed by the absence that lies in wait for them, by the prospect of their eclipse."
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