she dances out of time
"Mesmerized by the flickering charms and lightning-fast shifts in our own time, perhaps we can't tell at first glance whether what's creeping around us are rippling shadows or a fearful twilight. But while the final assessment of individual goodness perhaps can be left to posterity, we can't wait that long to ascertain our fate. To fail to do so is to surrender to the embrace of distraction. If we want to shape our own future, we must consider how we want to live and how we want to define progress, and as we do so, prepare to welcome to our ranks the thinking person's most prickly yet necessary companion---doubt. Observes Daniel Boorstin, 'The greatest menace to progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.'"
- Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, by Maggie Jackson
I like this paragraph better than much of the book. It sums up very nicely the things I'd been thinking about and then let fall by the wayside.
- Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, by Maggie Jackson
I like this paragraph better than much of the book. It sums up very nicely the things I'd been thinking about and then let fall by the wayside.