Thought of the Night: December 20, 2005

What, again, is the nature of this overriding need we all exhibit that most anything across the spectrum of human activity -from meaningful, perhaps even complex, societal paradigms on one end all the way along to vacuous, pervasive, ubiquitous modes of distraction and delusion on the other- can fulfill, even if only fleetingly? What sort of appetite is this? Constant? Yes. Primary? Perhaps. Underrated? It would seem so. The word ritual springs to mind...