touchstone quotations: Barack Obama on Equilibrium

This is not class warfare. It's math.

Barack Obama
Monday, September 19, 2011
at a White House Rose Garden presentation of his deficit reduction plan that includes, the Buffet Rule, a minimum tax for Americans earning $1 million or more in income.

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