Sunday, February 01, 2009

doors in the wall

That humanity will never be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory—all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the currently popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in hope of the inducing men and women to exchange their old bad habits for new and less harmful ones.

--Aldous Huxley

Feb 1, 2009 10:06:34 AM | ear candy, energy

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