Sometimes
Sometimes it is rational to be idle.
Labels: thought
If one takes a sweeping glance at the paraphernalia which distinguishes our civilization from those of the past—I mean our battleships, factories, railways, torpedoes, gas-masks, etc.—one realizes that this is our civilization and not something else which we imagine civilization to be. Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, pessaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.
—Henry Miller
—Henry Miller
Saturday, December 14, 2024
