The Crack In Everything Dept.

One of the better pieces of creative advice I've received is "Look for the cracks in things." Leonard Cohen has a couplet along those lines: there's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Butthe right way to apply that advice eluded me for a long time.

A major element of Flight of the Vajrais the Old Way, a kind of techno-renunciationist spiritual movement of the far future. The people who follow it are not wholly against technology, but against specific things they feel degrade...