Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
in any circumstances, to be rational.”
Aldous Huxley • Brave New World
The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
traditionally associated with psychedelia; the disillusion of a localised self-centered reality that is replaced with a far greater sense of interconnectivity with a greater whole — a replacement of concern for measurement with an appreciation of meaning as Huxley describes it.
Medium • Towards digital psychedelia and the radical dilation of time
In short, the universe – the world, human life – is a preposterous fluke.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
a brave new world of persistent good fortune, joy without trouble, felicity with no penalty.
Eric G. Wilson • Against Happiness
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.”