We Don't Get Offered Crises, They Arrive.

We Don't Get Offered Crises, They Arrive.

Power Is Not A Thing To Be Owned. But If You Believe That It Is Such A Thing, Losing It Becomes A Possibility To Fear. That Fear, I Think, Is One Reason For The Dark Projections Of A Catastrophic Future That Are So Widespread, In Our Dual Society. The Present Powerful, Being Committed To Polarization, Expect That Any New Deal Will Overturn The One That Set Them In Authority; That The Last Shall Be First And The First Last, Role Reversal Everywhere, Men As Slaves, Women As Masters, In A Revolution Of Contradiction.

Creeds And Causal Systems Have Argued With Each Other For Millennia, And Even So We And Our Ancestors Have Managed To Live In A World Of Differing Opinions. Philosophical Disputes Don't Often Affect The Price Of Fish Or Wine.

Art Is A Framework, A Kind Of Living Trellis, On Which Public Dreaming Can Shape Itself.

The Common Impulse Is Not To Sustain A Marriage By Finding Satisfaction Elsewhere, But To End The Marriage And Set Up A New One Which Will Provide The Comfort Lacking In The First.