“The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.” PeopleThinkingRealCrazyMilitaryGeniusReal Genius Author:David Foster
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantRealCareAbleLostUnderstandingRaceAttentionSacrificeAwarenessDisciplineInfiniteConstantSettingEducatedSettingsAlternativesRatsPettyDefaultUnconsciousnessRat RaceReal Freedom Author:David Foster
“This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.” ArtRealValuesNaturalOne DayComfortableAdultsSlaveSettingSettingsSupposed To BeUnconsciousBullshitProsperousRespectableDefaultArt EducationLiberal ArtsLiberal Arts Education Author:David Foster
“We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.” WorldRealSufferingImpossibleEmpathyReal World Author:David Foster
