"It is as if all of humanity, collectively sensing that we are on the cusp of a breakthrough into a new kind of living, has sunk to the ground in exhaustion just before reaching its long-sought goal. As Nietzsche has said, much in us is still like the worm that we evolved from, and the comfort of the muck is still more tempting than a transcendent future which we know not of, and which we will have to strive to attain. In short, cynicism is a devolutionary trait."
John Morgan
"One of the assumptions of art for a long time has been that things have value, and that it persists. Because it's somehow some quality intrinsic to things that is eternal. Well, I've come to think that that isn't the case. The value of a piece of work is the result of the quality of the interaction. You're part of the thing. It doesn't have value: value is something that you confer, that you make happen. Just like the I Ching doesn't have meaning in some abstract sense of having meaning invested in it; but your interaction with the thing generates meaning. That's a different thing from saying it has meaning."
Brian Eno
Covert activities: When Secret Society hooked up with the folk from Blather.
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