“Thou Shalt Think For Yourselves”
My second reading of The God Delusion is now complete. Here, I have to note that this probably is the only book in my life that I’ve read twice. Certainly the only one I can recall rereading.
I’ve got a copy of 1984 sitting on the living room coffee table. The book is a second endeavour in my George Orwell self education. My pool of known facts about the book is very limited, the most notable being that the title is a year, with the last two digits reversed. The book comes with something of a 150 page preface, plus dozens of end notes pages - tad bit intimidating, but if it gets too technical, I’ll skip the preface; Maybe read it with added context after I complete the actual novel portion.
After an extra day at home thanks to Canada Day, week four at my on-site part time position is about to start tomorrow. The position has forced me to work on a more efficient schedule, and reduce activity in areas like… the blog! Now that I’m a bit more adjusted to the new ways, there is hope for more regular entries. If not, one way or another things will be back to normal in a couple of months, tops.
For those feeling lost at the reduced frequency of new content at Hergest Ridge, the Zeitgeist movie should provide a bit of entertainment, and maybe a bit of knowledge. Zeitgeist is a full length feature, of which I found the first 35 minutes or so most interesting. I have to warn you that this is not a movie for sheep. I’d dismiss much of the content as improbable or very improbable. Of course, given the assumption that you have a good head on your shoulders, you know that to be the case for just about everything. You do question everything, right? Right.
“Television is not the truth. Television is a god damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, story tellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We [the networks] are in the boredom-killing business. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God’s name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion.”
Dan Le Sac’s “Thou Shalt Always Kill” is another great eye opener. After dispensing generally good advice for life, the song ends with the proclamation that thou shalt always kill. Only by thinking for yourself right out of the gate, or, by going back to the preceding bit of advice - thou shalt think for yourselves - does everything fall into place. Now go read a book!