From "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester...

[noahgibbs]

I think of this quote a lot lately.

"This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying… but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice… but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks… but nobody loved it."

Comments

classic quote

[beachglass]

what brought it to mind? maybe you were there in a past life.

hehe

Re: classic quote

[noahgibbs]

Like that time, it's hard for me not to see our time as that. It's truly amazing what we can ignore as it surrounds us.

Re: classic quote

[beachglass]

very true.


I think right now, especially, most people are extremely distracted by so many other things.