“I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imaginations.”
Kurt Vonnegut wrote that. In the preface to Wampeters, Foma & Granfallooons.
It makes me think of the world’s cognitive surplus. I bet Vonnegut would have loved Clay Shirky.
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