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August 01, 2006

"Soul-deadening gridlock"???

The lead story of this week's Los Angeles CityBeat is titled Fear and Entropy in Los Angeles and starts with the following tagline:

Scenes from a gas struggle: Will soul-deadening gridlock and exorbitant fuel prices kill the remnants of SoCal car culture?

Soul-deadening gridlock? Well let's see. In the last few weeks I've spent my "soul-deadening gridlock" listening to Krishnamurti, Alan Watts and Ken Wilber (Kosmic Consciousness may be the most anti-soul-deadening thing I've ever listened to).

So what is the author of this article talking about? Do people not know they can consume the wisdom of the world's greatest teachers during their commutes? Or do they not care? If it's the latter there's not much we can do. But I suspect that it's at least partially the former. And if that's the case then we have a helluva lot of work to do.

Here's to anti-soul-deadening...

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