Life41 - The Monday Morning Memo

“The great problem in the United States
is not repression or neurosis, which it was
in Europe when Freud wrote about everything.
No, the great problem here is not repression.
It's narcissism and addiction.
Those are our great problems in the United States
because Tommy Jefferson set us up.
‘Life, Liberty, and the… Pursuit of Happiness!'
If you pursue happiness directly, it evades you.
But you feel entitled to it…
It's wonderful, but it has a dark side.
And the dark side is addiction. Addiction.
We have done a dance with addiction in this country
from the very beginning.”
– Dr. Richard D. Grant
at Wizard Academy, July 1, 2007

“In the kingdoms of England, the sound of the bells is already one of the customs of the afternoon, but the man, while still a boy, had seen the face of Woden, had seen holy dread and exultation, had seen the rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments, seen the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners. Before dawn he would be dead and with him would die, never to return, the last firsthand images of the pagan rites. The world would be poorer when this Saxon was no more.

We may well be astonished by space-filling acts which come to an end when someone dies, and yet something, or an infinite number of things, die in each death—unless there is a universal memory, as the theosophists have conjectured. There was a day in time when the last eyes to see Christ were closed forever. The battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with the death of some one man. What will die with me when I die? What pathetic or frail form will the world lose? Perhaps the voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a horse in the vacant space at Serrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?”

- Jorge Luis Borges, The Witness

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