White Clouds

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

- H.L. Mencken

Stack Rock

 

 

 

If you can define people’s existence, if you tell them, “You’re a machine made of matter, in competition with other machines made of matter for survival,” then that has the effect of causing people to think that to produce and consume more and more material things is the main purpose of human life.  So they do that and it generates huge amounts of wealth that flows in an unfair way into certain pockets.  There are a lot of interests in society, financial interests, political interests, other interests that want to see that continue.  They don’t want to see people get distracted from that.

- Michael Cremo

Central Rim

There isn't a particular group deciding and enforcing a cover-up.  Everybody simply avoids looking at the problem.  Why upset the whole machine? - French Air Force intelligence officer from Jacque Vallee's Messengers of Deception

Mountain Cove

Still, along with the easy happiness I had come to associate with the country, I was aware of a new and perhaps less superficial sensation - that sense of familiarity and alienation that comes to one who knows a place well, but who can never hope to become a part of it - Wade Davis

McCall
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth - Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/u/umberto_eco.html#OM8yrfJ8CMRUueUH.99

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/u/umberto_eco.html#OM8yrfJ8CMRUueUH.99

Deer Creek

Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles that are made in China?
Through the bright prosaic malls
And the corridors that go on and on and on

- from "Love is Noise" by The Verve

Boise - Fall

If your lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company - Jean-Paul Sartre