“Out of the womb, we’re in an unfriendly world, in which our wishes aren’t anticipated, where we’re no longer magically omnipotent, where we don’t fit, where we’re not snugly at home. What’s to be done in this world? Either face out the reality, fight with it, resignedly or heroically accept to suffer or struggle. Or else flee. In practice even the strongest do a bit of fleeing-away from responsibility into deliberate ignorance, away from the uncomfortable fact into imagination. Even the strongest. And conversely even the weakest can make themselves strong. No, not the weakest: that’s a mistake. The weakest become daydreamers, masturbators, paranoiacs.”
Aldous Huxley, “After the Fireworks”, 1930.
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