flat-thinking

Updated: August 23, 2026

Or he suffers from what one might call Lost-Mindedness is always getting lost in anything he does, somewhere between the end and the means. He either loses the means in contemplating with unholy contemplation the end, like an idealist, or he loses the end in contemplating the means. The Habit of Flat-Thinking of not thinking things out in four dimensions. The Habit of Evaporated Thinking.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want