“ Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ”
A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.
~ Max Frisch
A society needs famous people, the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.
You can put anything into words, except your own life
