touchstone quotations: Jon Stewart on Paybacks

To fight back, I have prohibited my employees from describing events in esoteric terms.

Regarding NPR's decision to forbid its employees from attending the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington DC on October 30th.

Jon Stewart
on Larry King Live, CNN, October 20, 2010

Source: huffingtonpost.com

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Jon Stewart on Paybacks