"Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being--for those who create and master them at least. Now we are less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, more engrossed in the drama of staying ahead of whatever it is we think is pursuing us." ~ Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things: Essays, "Humanism"by johnataylor on Twos"Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being--for those who create and master them at least. Now we are less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, more engrossed in the drama of staying ahead of whatever it is we think is pursuing us." ~ Marilynne Robinson, The Givenness of Things: Essays, "Humanism"