Thought for the Week - The River

"...the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but seems to run less deep.

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There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible and nothing new ever happened, and "best" was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum."

- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance