If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.
Quentin S. CrispAnyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.
Quentin S. CrispThe research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.
Quentin S. CrispTo me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.
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