Orts #970

Actually, it's only existentialism if it comes from the existentialism region of France.
Otherwise, it's just sparkling anxiety.
     -- Aaron Paul Sullivan, somewhere on the interweb
 

Invisible Bullets: What Lucretius Taught Us About Pandemics
- the current Plague, in perspective-
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/invisible-bullets-what-lucretius-taught-us-about-pandemics


- Camus on the Plague -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opinion/coronavirus-camus-plague.html

 

The true object of education, like that of every other moral process, is the generation of happiness. Happiness to the individual in the first place. If individuals were universally happy, the species would be happy.
     -- William Godwin (1756-1836), The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature