In 1870 Henry Adams wrote that everything was respectable, and nothing amusing. Today everything is amusing, and nothing respectable.
Dec 202012
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
In 1870 Henry Adams wrote that everything was respectable, and nothing amusing. Today everything is amusing, and nothing respectable.
God is another name for epistemic modesty, which is dead.
Beneath our surface of deceit and pretense lies a core of pretense and deceit.
Shortly before death comes nostalgia.