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October 18, 2013
All real knowledge is dangerous.
We’ve managed to disremember that. But if the last century’s atomic bomb has not convinced usthen the even the greater discoveries coming thick and fast in this one must. We could be the bunny and the hawk behind the next door. And yet we are curiously unwilling to look either scientific or spiritual reality in the face, stuck as it were between the Scylla of inevitable knowledge the Charybdis of fear; wishing we could uninvent the Bomb, nerve gas, the ubiquitous wire tap, the killer robot … and yet unable to do. Wishing we could not have children to spare them this; wishing we weren’t here. But we are here.... - - A Woman in Calcutta
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 18, 2013 8:14 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.