

"9/11 Fooled Again" shows two separate counts @ the same moment in time.
'O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!'
Quote: "Western civilization is in the doghouse. []To the far right, it's annoyingly insistent on freedom for all--even the far left." | ||
Quote: these huge social organisms have developed as a result of the flowering of human freedom that the west has fostered, | ||
Quote: The core discovery upon which western civilization rests, and what makes the western mind fundamentally different, is the individual. | ||
Quote: The first stirrings of individuality came in Roman times, in the client-kingdom of Judea. Hellenism brought the concept of intellectual inquiry. Buddhism brought a compassionate deity. And Christ brought the idea that every human being, no matter his or her station in life, had value, and, for the first time, people began to see themselves as individuals, rather than social components. | ||
Quote: After Jesus proclaimed the individual, it was a very long time before society actually began to make room for the liberties that are needed for people to really flower and discover themselves. | ||
Quote: The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was promulgated so that complex debate could be undertaken without fear of state censure, and as the fundamental right that it codifies was adopted across the western world, a great symposium of ideas formed, and with it the flowering of philosophy, science, literature and the arts that has so dignified our civilization, and so immeasurably advanced the human mind and the human species. | ||
Quote: The arts of the west--its plastic arts, its writing, its music--are exponentially more complex than those of any other culture. | ||
Quote: At the same time that we were engaging in this pilgrimage, elsewhere in England, scientists were in the process of discovering that the world actually is a sort of matrix, made up of uncountable masses of information, but only of two kinds, the yes and the no. All of reality, in other words, functions exactly like computer language. | ||
Quote: This is leading scientists to proclaim anew that we are, in our essence, mechanical. But what they do not account for is complexity, and it is complexity that freedom fosters, complexity of social ordering, complexity of thought and the consequent discovery of deeper, more subtle feelings--in short, the very ethic of responsibility for oneself and others that Jesus propounded at the beginning of our journey. | ||
Quote: Then will come another leap forward, as we finally unite with ourselves across a now-unseen gulf between physical and nonphysical man. The great science of the next century will be the science of the soul, as we embrace the conundrum of being at last, not just with speculation, but with instruments so sensitive that they can detect the flight of consciousness as it is running free of the body. This is our destiny, and why our civilization is such a wonder, and so important. | ||