God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few. - Saul Bellow

Beauty is not a human invention.

There is simply too much to think about. It is hopeless — too many kinds of special preparation are required. In electronics, in economics, in social analysis, in history, in psychology, in international politics, most of us are, given the oceanic proliferating complexity of things, paralyzed by the very suggestion that we assume responsibility for so much. This is what makes packaged opinion so attractive.

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.