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“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed th
by m0zg 8y ago
“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.”
― Aleister Crowley
- oth001 8y agoInteresting quote coming from him
- throwaway8879 8y agoI heard a very interesting talk on Crowley by Robert Anton Wilson once. Crowley did have some rather far-out ideas. Also, I seem to recall him being in cahoots with the British Intelligence services at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8TZ0hYHiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8TZ0hYHiE
- icebraining 8y agoThat comes as an explanation of the previous statements: "Good God," I said to myself, "and this is merely New York! What must Mexico be like!" I supposed that I was experiencing normal conditions, whereas in point of fact I had landed at the climax of a heat wave which killed about a hundred people a day while it lasted. I should have discovered the truth if I had looked at a newspaper; but I did not read them. In any case, that principle means we should probably refrain from reading HN too.