"I think the world of U.S.A . . . is a world of crass, blind, overstimulated, phony, lying stupidity . . . The temper of the country is one of blindness, fat, self-satisfied, ruthless, mindless corruption. A lot of people . . . are perfectly content with the rat race as it is, and with its competitive, acquisitive, hurtling, souped-up drive into nowhere. A massively aimless, baseless, shrewd cockiness that simply exalts itself without purpose."
Thomas Merton, 1967
Photo: Fern Lake Fire, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; December 14, 2012
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