I Really Don't Mind Dying

A Culture-bearing Book, Like A Mule, Bears The Culture On Its Back. No One Should Sit Down To Write One Deliberately. Culture-bearing Books Appear Almost Accidentally, Like A Sudden Surge In The Stock Market. There Are Books Of High Quality That Are A Part Of The Culture, But That Is Not The Same. They Are A Part Of It. They Aren't Carrying It Anywhere. They May Talk About Insanity Sympathetically, For Example, Because That's The Standard Cultural Attitude. But They Don't Carry Any Suggestion That Insanity Might Be Something Other Than Sickness Or Degeneracy.

Of Course, The Laws Of Science Contain No Matter And Have No Energy Either And Therefore Do Not Exist Except In People's Minds. It's Best To Be Completely Scientific About The Whole Thing And Refuse To Believe In Either Ghosts Or The Laws Of Science. That Way You're Safe. That Doesn't Leave You Very Much To Believe In, But That's Scientific Too.

Objects Are Inorganic And Biological Values; Subjects Are Social And Intellectual Values.

Religious Mysticism Is Intellectual Garbage. It’s A Vestige Of The Old Superstitious Dark Ages When Nobody Knew Anything...it Is One Of Those Delusions That Isn’t Called Insane Only Because There Are So Many People Involved.

I've Wondered Why It Took Us So Long To Catch On. We Saw It, And Yet We Didn't See It. Or Rather We Were Trained Not To See It. Conned Perhaps Into Thinking That The Real Action Was Metropolitan And All This Was Just Boring Hinterland. It Was A Puzzling Thing. The Truth Knocks On The Door And You Say, "go Away. I'm Looking For The Truth." And So It Goes Away. Puzzling.