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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Less apparent is that bland writing — timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing – is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
We humans have always defined ourselves by narration. What's happening today is that we're allowing multi-national corporations to tell our stories for us.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. And yes, it's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Society in general maintains such a vested interest in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die – or kill – than entertain change.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Watts published a luminous book entitled The Wisdom of Insecurity that ought to be required reading for every high school senior. Watts elaborates beautifully on what I've learned from observation and personal experience: namely, that security is an illusion.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Throughout most of our history, nothing – not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons – has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)