{"id":3906,"date":"2011-03-04T04:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T04:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/04\/we-live-together-we-act-on-and-react-to-one\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T04:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T04:47:03","slug":"we-live-together-we-act-on-and-react-to-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/04\/we-live-together-we-act-on-and-react-to-one\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies&ndash;all these are private and, ex- cept through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Aldous Huxley,\u00a0The Doors of Perception\u00a01963<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. 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