286 / Travelling at the speed of the soul

A republic requires citizens; entertainment requires only an audience.

– Megan Garber

“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way...: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly.”