Laura Huang

monotheism overreached. It made such grand claims… and when these claims were abandoned it left people with the impression that there really is nothing besides “science,” which of course, nobody really understands, because it’s nothing but a method.

A beautiful death at the right time is the only key to understanding a life, its only hidden “meaning.”

Oral cultures act and react at the same time. Phonetic culture endows men with the means of repressing their feelings and emotions when engaged in action.

Literacy creates very much simpler kinds of people than those that develop in the complex web of ordinary tribal and oral societies.