9.20.2007

"The world is a civilized one, its inhabitant is not: he does not see the civilization of the world around him, but he uses it as if it were a natural force… In the depths of this soul he is unaware of the artificial, almost incredible, character of civilization, and does not extend his enthusiasm for the instruments to the principles which made them possible."

– José Ortega y Gasset
The Revolt of the Masses

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