!["It is now obvious that men cannot live much longer the life of irrelevant distractions. We are becoming too acutely conscious and aware of time. Any stimulant, however pleasant at the beginning, repeated [often enough] becomes hateful." (G. Heard, "Pain, Sex and Time," p.193.) This warning - written nearly 75 years ago - seems eerily prescient in our times, although it shouldn't. For, when we look back at the history of 'transcendentalism,' we have been on a crash course with the limitations that time has on humanity's consciousness.](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tQxPRlz6RJuBLN1S0yEevmhg8lYbAYSc3hlR7Gd0_CWkjK7jzaIRKQ8M_uSob-Zi1GqgcINgt9NzjiIgLKNdC5_FMZANDvEtROveOnSSQ1YBk_douDz_G-zTKrzS6S2cnf4kKg81T35U1JDg=s0-d) | "It is now obvious that men cannot live much longer the life of irrelevant distractions. We are becoming too acutely conscious and aware of time. Any stimulant, however pleasant at the beginning, repeated [often enough] becomes hateful." (G. Heard, "Pain, Sex and Time," p.193.)
This warning - written nearly 75 years ago - seems eerily prescient in our times, although it shouldn't. For, when we look back at the history of 'transcendentalism,' we have been on a crash course with the limitations that time has on humanity's consciousness. |
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