A fine collection that is almost too accurate to remain funny. I'm almost through reading The Glass Bead Game, which explores the push and pull of the value in the pursuit of Truth and abstraction versus living in the actual world. Since its Hesse, this is handled with subtlety, grace, and ambiguity. Maybe the most practical takeaway is that the elite intellectuals of this imagined future take meditation as seriously as they do academic study, which I think has a strong kernel of truth to it.
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Date: 2022-07-07 02:39 am (UTC)