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@nils_gilman “...Mysteries are intrinsically esoteric, and as such are an offense to democracy: is not publicity a democratic principle? Democratic resentment denies that there can be anything that can't be seen by everybody...”

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Quoted by@brainpicker 2/ Which is all very well. But, truth be told, relatively few give two cahoots to the gilded-edge of quantum physics or esoteric metaphysics - a base truth emblematic of high-culture consciousness as strangely adjunctive to addressing the immense, pressing challenges of our era.