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"There is a particularly unattractive and discouraging common affliction called tunnel vision, which, for all the misery it causes, ought to top the job list at the World Health Organization. Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest. Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energentic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good idea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comes out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended.
That is how the loving idead of Jesus Christ became the sinister cliches of Christianity. That is why virtually every revolution in history has failed: the oppressed, as soon as they seize power, turn into the oppressors, resorting to totalitarian tactics to 'protect the revolution.' That is why minorities seeking the abolition of prejudice become intolerant, minorities seeking pease become militant, minorities seeking equality become self-righteous, and minorities seeking liberation become hostile."
I love this man and his work. He's a comedian, poet, and philosopher all rolled into one, integrating his ideas into a delicious combination that's as easy to consume as peanut butter and chocolate.
Read anything of his and feel the same way. This particular snippet comes from Still Life With Woodpecker.
Tom Robbins is officially my new hero.