New Orts #41
October 27 MMXXIV
We are here on earth to do good to others.
What the others are here for, I do not know.
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.
— both, W. H. Auden
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age.
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
— Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
— Pogo (Walt Kelly)
Signs of the times:
