“Experience shows that escape from boredom is
one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. When
white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they
offer them all kinds of benefits, from the lights of the gospel to
pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages
receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that
we bring to them is intoxicating liquor, which enables them for the
first time in their lives to have the illusion, for a few brief moments,
that it is better to be alive than dead.”
| — | Bertrand Russell (via fuckyeahexistentialism) |
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