> "Read this ridiculous post before I regret it!" <-- First thought: "you have my attention."
> " ‘We do not know her. Who seeks entry?’ Then the marshal said: ‘Zita, your sister, a poor sinner.’ And the gate was opened." <-- Love this so much. Would cry again. :-D
> AP: When I said “needs,” I meant more like, people need to eat food. [That's right; "boil it down" to the most materialistic and unarguably-universal elements, Mr. Philosopher.] Karl: Oh right! Sorry, yes, my polity subsidizes sausages and beer. [LOL! These interlocutors are a riot! And I'm sure I'm only getting like half the jokes!]
> "May we all seek to become the least-advantaged."
Amen! Also, for this, you get a quote: "This psychosis [the lust for affluence in contemporary society] permeates even our mythology. The modern hero is the poor boy who purposefully becomes rich rather than the rich boy who voluntarily becomes poor..." -Richard J. Foster, "Celebration of Discipline" <-- (Its first edition was in 1978.)
Delightful! "Step outside history, and even outside the state of nature" vs. "We arrive at universals through particulars." Plus Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
Why can't the nation simply take another look
At all the fine ideas presented in my book?
I've shown how every Hindu, Moslem, Christian, Greek or Jew
Can learn to think as we at Harvard do.
I ask you first to please assume
That no one knows a thing,
No values no traditions
from which a hope could spring,
One dark veil of ignorance concealing every star,
And soon you'll be as we at Harvard are.
My reasoning then demonstrates
By logic brief and clear
If everyone abandoned
Whatever he holds dear
And just tries to grab a greater share from those above,
Society would live in peace and love.
Jim
> "Read this ridiculous post before I regret it!" <-- First thought: "you have my attention."
> " ‘We do not know her. Who seeks entry?’ Then the marshal said: ‘Zita, your sister, a poor sinner.’ And the gate was opened." <-- Love this so much. Would cry again. :-D
> AP: When I said “needs,” I meant more like, people need to eat food. [That's right; "boil it down" to the most materialistic and unarguably-universal elements, Mr. Philosopher.] Karl: Oh right! Sorry, yes, my polity subsidizes sausages and beer. [LOL! These interlocutors are a riot! And I'm sure I'm only getting like half the jokes!]
> "May we all seek to become the least-advantaged."
Amen! Also, for this, you get a quote: "This psychosis [the lust for affluence in contemporary society] permeates even our mythology. The modern hero is the poor boy who purposefully becomes rich rather than the rich boy who voluntarily becomes poor..." -Richard J. Foster, "Celebration of Discipline" <-- (Its first edition was in 1978.)
THIS IS AMAZING
Delightful! "Step outside history, and even outside the state of nature" vs. "We arrive at universals through particulars." Plus Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
There's an almost Coetzeean quality to this dialogue (which I mean as a compliment)!