Sometimes, out of all this static and confusion, the Other assembles itself and takes form before our very eyes.

Barbara Ehrenreich, Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth About Everything [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Ehrenriech Living with a Wild God out of all this static

Consider also:

  1. “A shock wave of horror shuddered through Memorial Hall as people realized how many of their neighbors and friends, in the safety of anonymity, had been seduced by sensationalism and gut feelings. There was cheering and there was anger, there were those who cried and those who screamed for a rebellion, but most were satisfied that justice had been done.”
  2. “How fascinating! I, a human, was not aware that humans engaged in such behavior! I must consider how can I help my human friend, who I love as a human, using the twin marvels of science and technology!”
  3. “A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces capitalist realism. Poverty, famine and war can be presented as an inevitable part of reality, while the hope that these forms of suffering could be eliminated easily painted as naive utopianism. Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, capitalism’s ostensible ‘realism’ turns out to be nothing of the sort.”
  4. “Analyze your own abilities and find what you are best fitted to do. Then get about the task of doing your chosen work to the very best of your ability, and do not for an instant doubt your own capabilities.”
  5. “Oh, my,” she said, her heart racing. “You are a bad little kitty.”