Posted: Mar 05, 2013 5:58 pm
Little Idiot
The other thing which strikes me more and more as I get older is that the people who dismiss this stuff as rubbish - they are the ones who actually believe in fairy-stories. I mean, they believe in their 'self' and 'world' and 'nature' and so on, yet these are all just conceptual architecture. So they seem to live in a totally abstract world, full of half-forgotten dreams. Or as Blake described it, 'mind-forg'd manacles'. That is the wonder of our age, and I suppose, the new religion.
The other thing which strikes me more and more as I get older is that the people who dismiss this stuff as rubbish - they are the ones who actually believe in fairy-stories. I mean, they believe in their 'self' and 'world' and 'nature' and so on, yet these are all just conceptual architecture. So they seem to live in a totally abstract world, full of half-forgotten dreams. Or as Blake described it, 'mind-forg'd manacles'. That is the wonder of our age, and I suppose, the new religion.