dennis scharnberg

“The twentieth century was strictly low comedy, Elizabeth. The raw courage of Piet Mondrian! A creepy little twit—Jean-Paul Sartre—telling us (each and every one of us) all about ‘being’. And there—it seems so long ago now—stood Doctor Freud, solemnly explaining that tiny infants not only want to engage in coitus with their mothers, but cannot help being completely shaped for the rest of their lives by that desire.”

Rollin Mungo, Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

The Enlightenment held that if people are given the freedom to think—and actually engage that freedom—they will eventually arrive at the same thoughts (i.e., the Truth). There are only three problems with this. First, people are not like that. Second, the world is not like that. And third, what we refer to as Reason is not like that.

Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.