Shame "on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted.... You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitise your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed." — Suzy Kassem Blaise Pascal had a deeply held belief that people manage to avoid the ultimate issues facing them by means of diversion. "Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance," he said, "men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things; diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly to our death." Pascal wasn’t alone in his thinking. "We want to complexify our lives," wrote Peter John Kreeft. "We don’t have to, we want to. We want to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing that we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hole … and be terrified." Friedrich Nietzsche put it this way: "It is the misfortune of the active that their activity is almost always a little se...
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