Wednesday, January 12, 2005

From today's Herald Tribune

"We must resist the temptation to cure our anxiety by manufacturing new idols to serve".


4 comments:

Shurouq said...

Hmmm, Yes, it seems man does need an entity to look up to.. to adore and worship as you put it. But why assume that that entity has to be a god or a religion. Let me point out what Richard Holloway is saying here: ".. we should make alliances with poets and protesters, rarely with priests and politicians".

(Ya3ni, in other words: God is dead. Elvis is alive.) :)

And yea sure, the word "man" applies to male, female, and shemale too.

Have a nice weekend.

Shurouq said...

Brachypelma,

I don't take the word "poet" here literally. "Poets and protesters" are those who stimulate your mind, while "priests and politicians" insist on numbing it with their fixed views on life.

o leish az3al? ma za3alt :)

Anonymous said...

Mariah is my idol, i have fallen victim to the quote.

Shurouq said...

Shady q80,
I remember reading "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" back in college days. Maybe I should get a copy of that book and read it again.

Anonymous,
Mariah who??