Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the disparity between material abundance and genuine happiness in society.
Randall Robinson's quote critiques modern society's obsession with information, communication, and material possessions, suggesting that despite these advancements, we have become increasingly disconnected from what truly nourishes the human spirit, such as community, goodwill, and happiness. It serves as a reminder that the accumulation of external goods does not equate to internal fulfillment, and highlights the importance of nurturing our emotional and social well-being.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of community engagement in today's digital age.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.
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