The ideas of personal identity and free will we inherit from Christianity have often been questioned, but they continue to mould the way we think, and any view of human life from which they are altogether absent remains unfamiliar and troubling.
It must be me. Everything I read lately talks about the devastating effects of my former marriage. Or the Bush administration. But really— for simple if eternally depressing reasons—both.
When the law is silent or meaningless, it usually means that society is conflicted or confused—and at such times, mere power wins.
—Lenny Bruce
Doesn’t mean I won’t, in either case, make a memorable stink. My little contribution to social change.
