Dieter Geisler

“how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don’t just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important—these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For”
― Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

“The problem is that this fluidity is not a choice we are free to make. Despite the unifying patriotic rhetoric that permeates the United States, on some level Americans are not really fooled: at bottom, each person knows he or she must continually “reinvent themselves,” which is to say, go it alone. America is the ultimate anticommunity.3”
― Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

“Each species is a masterpiece of evolution that humanity could not possibly duplicate even if we somehow accomplish the creation of new organisms by genetic engineering. —E. O. Wilson”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True

“A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than the next thought I write.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will