Keith

“Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age, this method came naturally. I’d write lots of poems to expel negative feelings. Though I didn’t show them to anybody—they contained the kind of stuff you’d hesitate to tell even a psychiatrist—they became the seeds for the lyrics that would come to define my career.”
― Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

“Rather than being low-information parents, these are parents who are, if anything, less selective in choosing the sources they get information from. Rather than using information arrived at through the scientific method, they have also incorporated information from websites, alternative health practitioners, and religious leaders.”
― Jonathan M. Berman, Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

“Human life has always been stalked by disease. For bacteria, viruses, and parasites, our bodies and our cells are perfect incubators. Every life saved and every quantum of suffering avoided by a vaccine is the legacy of all the physicians and scientists who have ever devoted themselves to developing or disseminating these life-saving technologies. The anti-vaccination movement has worked its way into the public discourse, motivated by compassion and distrust of authority, experts, corporations, and governments.”
― Jonathan M. Berman, Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

“We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land And Other Poems