The Ages of Cowardice
by Anna-Marie Quave
In most eras it is safe, efficient, and rewarding for the clever and the
ambitious, the go-getters, to buy into and further the world as percevied. Add a bit of
luck to their cleverness and ambition, and such persons accumulate goods, wealth, and
status. They then die content--if not happy--in the illusion of a life well-lived. The
illusion is attractive, seductive, and long-lasting. The lives of such well-intentioned
fools are disrupted only rarely, either by natural disasters or by the perfect intrusion
into--and absolute destruciton of--their comfortable "reality" of that
cleverness beyond cleverness which persists in having no name, however much we try to name
it.
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