Aldous Huxley, William Blake, Lenin, Alan Watts, Socrates, Kafka, and quotes

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Aldous Huxley, from Island: the world is full of 'entertaining irrelevancies'.

"Gratitude is heaven itself". William Blake

"Electricity plus socialism equals communism." Lenin (mirroring Marshal Mcluhan)

The 'humanities' as university courses are society's inadequate answer to its need for courses on proper living.

Alan Watts: as the rainbow requires light, water vapor, and the human eye in order to emerge, so does the rest of the world. That is, an observer in the proper position is necessary for any manifestation.

Socrates' conviction that the unexamined life is not worth living ends as "the only thing I know is that I know nothing", which is nebulism. This creates the envy of confidence, which is the outcome of an unquestioned existence.

He wasn't dreaming so he read Kafka. Catharsis minus REM.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.