18/06/2010

Reading this Tomorrow Would Have Been Good Enough

The obsession with current events is relentless. We are made to feel that at any point, somewhere in the globe, something may occur to sweep away old certainties, something that, if we failed to learn about it instantaneously, could leave us wholly unable to comprehend ourselves or our fellows.

Alain de Botton, "Distraction-Concentration"

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