Fragmented

No one to blame!

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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for … Read more

I mean, if you

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I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it … Read more

We live fragmented, compartmentalized

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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle … Read more

With stillness comes the

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With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it. Eckhart Tolle

The post-Second World War

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The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren’t organized in workplace trade unions doesn’t mean they aren’t in associations with other people – work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based – there’s a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument. Duncan Green

The novel has become

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The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups … Read more