tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191740772011-06-09T12:24:45.595-07:00"The more widespread their mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by uncontrollable forces...Each one has the incomparable taste in his mouth of his own life, and yet each feels himself more insignificant than an insect within the immense collectivity whose limits are one with the earth's...Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity." --Simone De Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguitycollective consciousnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11450878996899028759noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19174077.post-1142245282076071852006-03-13T00:41:00.000-08:002009-01-16T14:33:48.215-08:00He clings to concrete with steadfast faith that what he grasps is indeed reality's true form.<br />He has the Lord our Dollar to guide him<br />through the unpaved fields ripe for parking,<br />past the infidels who dare question Free Market scripture,<br />to his asphalt kingdom.<br />[hallelujah]<br /><br />If ever Doubt whispers infinity into his sleeping ear,<br />scattering seeds<br />whose roots might embed themselves in that stone<br />and turn it to fertile soil,<br />he hurls those seeds back in Doubt's face<br />and tightens his grip on the only concept of truth his hands,<br />rigid with cold conviction,<br />would ever dare to grasp.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19174077-114224528207607185?l=ethicsofambiguity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>collective consciousnesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11450878996899028759noreply@blogger.com0