diff --git a/pages/las.quotes.md b/pages/las.quotes.md index 07879b6..3089a2e 100644 --- a/pages/las.quotes.md +++ b/pages/las.quotes.md @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ most personal formal language. ------------- ------------- ------------- + ## Edward O. Wilson We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. @@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life. -## WS Burroughs +## William S. Burroughs > Cut word lines Cut music lines Smash the control images Smash the control machine Burn the books Kill the priests Kill! Kill! Kill! > - William S. Burroughs - The Soft Machine (1961) @@ -244,7 +245,7 @@ We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to pa #meaning If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens. -## Gadamer +## Hans-Georg Gadamer **The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it.** Thus it follows that from the forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. What is said in it constitutes the common world in which we live. … The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it. Hans-Georg Gadamer - Man and Language (1966) @@ -259,11 +260,14 @@ Hans-Georg Gadamer - Man and Language (1966) ------ -## Gibson +## William Gibson #patterns ------------- ------------- +“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition” +― William Gibson, [Pattern Recognition](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2455062) + + +## Timothy Leary _“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.”_