"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s nice to see you posting occasionally Ann. I hope the work on the dissertation is going well, but at the same time your work here is highly valued.
It’s great that people are thinking of new and better ways to get the concept out about the golden rule.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you isn’t a quid pro quo. It is how you define what it means to be human. It’s a categorical imperative.
Now we’ve got Cheney arguing – and the Obama administration by proxy – that torture is moral because it produces results. This is how Cheney defines what it means to be human. We’ll see if Obama goes a long to get along again.