America, we need to talk about stupid.
Birdie sings a funny song at a Nant House party, 24 September 1847
Dreaming is not a madness. Awakening is.
There is a pervasive belief in the West that freedom means having many choices. Yet, there is reason to believe the opposite: that it be a system of control.
We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from
A secret matriarchy running inside pre-industrial Europe.
One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so unlike ours, and in this most zen way!
Quotes from the book
There is an Emily in each of us. It is incompatible with this world, and thereby reminds us that we are not native to it.
If you are permanently in a dream world, how do you spend your time? After all, nothing matters.