So is anyone bothered yet? How long since you have been really bothered by something of substance? It would appear that our time with F451 is coming to a close. That said, there is so much to say and yet, in the words of Granger, we'll have to be content to "... pass the books on to our children by word of mouth, and let our children wait, in turn, on the other people. A lot will be lost that way, of course. But you can't make people listen. They have to come around in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up from under them"(153).
This quote suggests a real sadness at the fact that things do get lost; yet it ends on a supremely optimistic note, that even though loss is inevitable, there's something in the human spirit that rebels against meaninglessness. We may wish to amuse ourselves with thoughtless American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, but eventually the big, the important, the tough questions come bounding over us like a juggernaut.
Word up: leave the Platonic cave of shadows and illusion. Ask yourself what's real! Here's your culminating project: download and do.
This quote suggests a real sadness at the fact that things do get lost; yet it ends on a supremely optimistic note, that even though loss is inevitable, there's something in the human spirit that rebels against meaninglessness. We may wish to amuse ourselves with thoughtless American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, but eventually the big, the important, the tough questions come bounding over us like a juggernaut.
Word up: leave the Platonic cave of shadows and illusion. Ask yourself what's real! Here's your culminating project: download and do.
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