The Psychedelic Tourist
12.22.2003
"Nothing can justify what is happening,
but so long as it happens,
it is necessary that it should be taken up,
because it is necessary that the inner life of man,
that the life which he creates within his mind, resemble as finely,
that is to say as truthfully as possible the actual world..."
John Berger
This is a quote from the film, "The Spectre of Hope" in which John Berger talks with Sebastiao Salgado about his 2000 book, "Migrations". The quote tells us that we should look at all things in the world with equal concentration, that we should not allow our own understanding to become biased because we refuse to look at everything around us. It is the responsibility of the human individual to establish an understanding of the world. Without this attempt, we are left hollow inside, unable to to comprehend, unable to show compassion, we are left in the sidelines of the human condition.
