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To: Siena Dreaming

I don’t find it nonsensical at all. It reminded me of a David Warren column I read recently:

“I try, in writing these columns, not to climb out on limbs; to restrict myself to the obvious, the central, the balancing, the self-evident. If there is any point to my efforts, it is to draw attention to big obvious truths that almost everyone is neglecting. For little truths are little, but big truths are big.

And this is the big truth here: that we are, collectively, descending through layer under layer of fatuity, or as it were, mining our way to Hell. Look around in street, office, and bus, at all the people plugged into small devices, “linked,” as if in some stupendous electronic chain gang. Rigidly held, by short spans of attention.”

http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?id=1256


3 posted on 03/28/2011 12:54:54 PM PDT by mojito
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And this is the big truth here: that we are, collectively, descending through layer under layer of fatuity, or as it were, mining our way to Hell. Look around in street, office, and bus, at all the people plugged into small devices, “linked,” as if in some stupendous electronic chain gang. Rigidly held, by short spans of attention.”


5 posted on 03/28/2011 1:13:25 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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