C. S. Lewis, “The Seeing Eye” in Christian Reflections (Eeerdmans, 1967), pp. 168-167 (via maverick philosopher):
“Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully. But you’d be safer to stick to the papers.”
The amusing part of the quote is that C. S. Lewis intended to describe how to “avoid God”, but alas, it’s the identical mirror image of the lifestyle of people who live inside the doctrinal religious communities. An atheist and a fundamentalist are the separated at birth twins.