personhood 4

Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give the soul the perfection it longs for.

“To the famous Archimedean boast:  ‘Give me whereon to stand and I will move the world.’.  Rabelais answers: ‘I move with my ship; and the waves of the world give…

Men cut off from their origins and alienated from their selves become desperate, and desperate men do desperate deeds.

This will not last. Greed consumes everything, until it finally consumes itself.