Little boxes, all the same. All the people in the houses all go to the university. And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same.
Pete Seeger sang those words about the development of suburbia and conformity in 1963. How can we fully express our creativity and avoid becoming zombies? In another inspiring hit of stoner philosophy, Jason Silva wonders what pushes people away from the herd.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
-Nietzsche
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The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.
Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization.
– The Hero with A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Robert Anton Wilson – Reality Tunnels
Robert Anton Wilson described his writing as an “attempt to break down conditioned associations—to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps and no one model elevated to the Truth.”
“My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.”
