We Are Not Disturbing the Peace!
One of my favorite Howard Zinn quotes:
About My Life
This quote by Ashleigh Brilliant about sums it up:
“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
About Mentorship
This quote has guided me for much of my life:
" . . . [H]is disciple cried impetuously: 'But I believe in your cause and consider it so strong that I shall say everything, everything that I still have in my mind against it.'
The innovator laughed in his heart and wagged a finger at him. 'This kind of discipleship,' he said, 'is the best; but it is also the most dangerous, and not every kind of doctrine can endure it.'"
Friederich Nietzsche - The Gay Science (1882) Sec 106 "Music as an Advocate"
Amazing Side Effect of Humility
"Learning from people you don't like is a super power.
Takes humility."
Orwell and Huxley, per Postman
Quote:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death