“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 20 (p. 288)

Is it Peace (1923)
Later life

Grip interview (1997)
Context: The most important of my achievements, if you want to call them that, was that I successfully introduced mystical ideas into pop culture, which was my obsession and my compulsion when I was 16 years old. So, behind all of this fame and fortune, there was a seeker, on a spiritual path — a young man who wanted to discover and share with others an alternative way of looking at the world. I wanted to save our culture from the stupidity and the bigotry and the ignorance that threatened it. And there was the Buddhist way, and the Celtic way.

Part 2, Chapter 4, “The Mystery of the Champagne Supernovae” (p. 128).
Jack Glass (2012)

17 June 2014 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/479082538904723457
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Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
Context: Don't believe in the 60's, the Golden age of Pop. You glorify the past, when the Future dries up

"God Part II

As quoted in The Peter Plan : A Proposal for Survival (1976) by Laurence J. Peter
1970s

Source: Dream Warrior

The Reactionary Temptation (2017)
Context: You will not arrest the reactionary momentum by ignoring it or dismissing it entirely as a function of bigotry or stupidity. You’ll only defuse it by appreciating its insights and co-opting its appeal.
Reaction can be clarifying if it helps us better understand the huge challenges we now face. But reaction by itself cannot help us manage the world we live in today — which is the only place that matters. You start with where you are, not where you were or where you want to be. There are no utopias in the future or Gardens of Eden in our past. There is just now — in all its incoherent, groaning, volatile messiness. Our job, like everyone before us, is to keep our nerve and make the best of it.