New Orts #16

May 5 MMXXIV

It seems to me that with the burial of myth, the barn in which the mysterious animals of the human unconscious were housed over thousands of years has been abandoned and the animals turned loose—on the tragically mistaken assumption that they were phantoms—and now they are devastating the countryside.
— Vàclav Havel (1936-2011), Thriller (1984)
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Thus we pride ourselves on living in a “knowledge society,” but this is largely an illusion. In fact, we are glutted with data, from which we derive little information, even less knowledge, and virtually no wisdom.
— Patrick Ophuls (1934- ), Buddha Takes No Prisoners (2007)

I have only three enemies. My favorite enemy, the one most easily influenced for the better, is the British Empire. My second enemy, the Indian people, is far more difficult. But my most formidable opponent is a man named Mohandas K. Gandhi. With him I seem to have very little influence.
— Mahatma Gandhi