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1 " It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffering something to be avoided at all cost. We consider the equation between evil and suffering so self-evident that we make avoiding suffering the equal of fighting evil. No wonder we are the most narcotized generation ever to inhabit the earth, searching for ever more effective addictive patterns to anaesthetize our existence. "
― Luke Timothy Johnson , The Living Gospel (Icons)
2 " They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic. "
3 " No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions. "
― Terence McKenna , Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
4 " It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. "
― Neil Postman , Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
