The Magic Lantern

“Original and astonishing works of culture are like a bomb which falls on a lazy, stupefied town, where everybody sits with their mug of beer and is very wise, and is oblivious of the fact that their insipid well-being is precisely the cause of the thunder’s crash.” - Hegel, “Aphorisms from the Wastebook”, Miscellaneous Writings of G. W. F. Hegel, ed. Stewart