"There is, in formation, a whole body of potential 'new men' in American universities and even in business circles: men without heads and without imagination, with three of four eyes and iron teeth, who are secretly in love with the concept of a vast managerial society. One day we are going to wake up and find America and Russia in bed together (forgive the unmonastic image) and realize that they were happily married all along. It is then that the rest of us are going to have to sort ourselves out and find out if there remains, for us, a little fresh air somewhere in the universe."
Thomas Merton
writing to Czeslaw Milosz
Striving Towards Being
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