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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. if you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. and people are very much afraid of that. i think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. or the fear of heretics. there's a very close analogue there.
-Robert M. Pirsig
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I Think Present-day Reason Is An Analogue

Robert M. Pirsig
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. if you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. and people are very much afraid of that. i think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. or the fear of heretics. there's a very close analogue there.
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I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. or the fear of heretics...what's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. as a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.
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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. and in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. we all are falling. this hand falls. and look at others: it is in them all. and yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.
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The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."and tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.we're all falling. this hand here is falling.and look at the other one. it's in them all.and yet there is someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling.
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At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. so this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. so we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. no matter how much we hurt them. the people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. and sure, sometimes close can be too close. but sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.
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