Matt Berry, author of A Human Strategy, The Mechanics of Virtue and Post-Atheism.
A Human Strategy, Matt Berry aphorism 65
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We are spiraling; that is sure. But are we rising or falling? And if we are indeed rising ... as is the end of all our efforts and sufferings ... are we only rising within the stratum of our class?
367 A: Is it more pleasant without the obstacle? B: Yes, but before I discovered that it was an obstacle, I was content. There was no inconvenience, and therefore, there was no obstacle. A: But if it is “better” without the obstacle, wouldn’t it be wise to look for other comfortable, and therefore invisible obstacles everywhere? A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism
387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood. To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process . In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism
121 A government that leads the people is not a government by the people. A government by the people lacks initiative. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism