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Understanding of itself. It may be that the driving of a truck, the organizing of a business, the augmenting of an atomic bomb, the governing of a city are all necessary aspects of the functioning of society. Certainly the people who perform these tasks are all entirely worthy public servants. But then, you are familiar with the old question: “who was Mayor of Amsterdam when Rembrandt painted?”
    Certainly all these functions are necessary to the smooth operation of our civilization, but i believe that its growth is attributable to a different source, namely to those who worked in the dark, not knowing whether anyone would care or not, trying to put into some kind of comprehensible form the great beliefs, the images, the words and the convictions which stirred them......Who Cared?.....No-one! (At least not until afterward)