ballard-obsessions

January 16, 2025

There is a terrific volatility in mass psychology nowadays. Strange little obsessions become huge lava flows and threaten to smother common sense.

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Thought:

“What is the world? tell, Worldling (if thou know it).

If it be good, why do all ills o’erflow it?

If it be bad, why dost thou like it so?

If it be sweet, how come sit bitter then?

If it be bitter, what bewitcheth men?

If it be friend, why kills it (as a foe)

Vain-minded men that over-love and lust it?

If it be foe, Fondling, how dar’st thou trust it?”

Joshua Sylvester | “Mundus Qualis”

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