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and buried possibilities
of our time.
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The discovery of a true communication
was what it was about,
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or at least the quest
for such a communication.
:38:10
The adventure of finding it
and losing it.
:38:12
We the unappeased, the unaccepting
continued looking,
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filling in the silences with our
own wishes, fears and fantasies.
:38:18
Driven forward by the fact that no
matter how empty the world seemed,
:38:22
no matter how degraded and used up
the world appeared to us,
:38:26
we knew that anything
was still possible.
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And, given
the right circumstances,
:38:30
a new world was just
as likely as an old one.
:38:49
There are two kinds
of sufferers in this world:
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those who suffer
from a lack of life...
:38:55
and those who suffer from
an overabundance of life.
:38:58
I've always found myself
in the second category.
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When you come to think of it,
:39:04
almost all human
behavior and activity...
:39:07
is not essentially any
different from animal behavior.
:39:11
The most advanced technologies
and craftsmanship...
:39:14
bring us, at best, up to
the super-chimpanzee level.
:39:19
Actually, the gap between,
:39:22
say, Plato or Nietzsche
and the average human...
:39:25
is greater than the gap between
that chimpanzee and the average human.
:39:29
The realm
of the real spirit,
:39:32
the true artist, the saint,
the philosopher,
:39:35
is rarely achieved.
:39:37
Why so few?
:39:39
Why is world history and evolution
not stories of progress...
:39:45
but rather this endless and
futile addition of zeroes?
:39:48
No greater values
have developed.
:39:52
Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago
were just as advanced as we are.
:39:57
So what are these barriers
that keep people...
:39:59
from reaching anywhere
near their real potential?