Monday, November 30, 2009

Superstition

That we've outgrown superstition is the principal superstition today.

What could be more pathetic
than a people who've replaced sexual terror
with an AIDS epidemic thinking that not
instantly jailing pornographers from the wrong
social station means that there are no taboos?

I don't believe that Alan Watts had any greater title than The Book: On the Taboo of Knowing Who We Are. That taboo applies as much today (if not more) than it did the day Watts' book was published.

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