Propr’s Intuition
and then because she so ignored the cries of the people, lost as she was in her Arcadia, she was eventually guillotined.
Arcadia can become a hiding place from reality. It can become a deafness and a cruelty and an indifference to suffering.
They create their Arcadia and hide from the evils of the world and Arcadia becomes a kind of evil too. And then it feeds the monster that will eventually devour them.
Arcadia cannot be a denial of reality, for reality cannot be denied.
It is not a place or dream to hide in. It cannot protect you from truth, or injustice, or poverty.
It can only delay your death by the truth you don’t face.
Arcadia ought to help us be more candid.