Monday, December 29, 2008

Deep thoughts by Daniel Merriweather


Given the way Promethean reason imposes itself on the objects it works with, the world it presents to us can be viewed as the product of a vast display of ventriloquism in the which the so-called external world is a dummy...

Actually, Huston Smith gets credit for that line..

1 comment:

Daniel Fan said...

That's quite an intellectually provocative quote -- the postmodern idea of the external world as a dummy is both laughable and accurate.