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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A Man Called Charolais" data-source="post: 70213">“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.”    ― Josef Pieper, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/754022" target="_blank">Leisure: The Basis of Culture</a>    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/754022-mu-e-und-kult" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/754022-mu-e-und-kult</a>Very intellectual.  Seems to be of a C19th mentality, these sentiments are often seen from late in that century as mechanisation was turned on culture and social organisation.  Harshly critical of scientism and social materialism.  Think of being crushed between the slides of a specimen prepared for a microscope. Obsession with career and Instaglam vacations are merely distractions from the pain of being crushed under the thin plates of glass - the vision of the enormity and wonder of life (expressed in the spiritual life) being blinded all the better to make us pliable like geldings under the yolk.Something along those lines.  His words have power.  Would explain why drug use (and other bewildering uses of ourselves) has proliferated to such a degree.</blockquote>

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