Almost done reading Jonathan Safran Foer's newest book Eating Animals, which I digress for a moment to personally, fully endorse. And not just b/c of my slight obsession/fascination with his work... or b/c it has helped with the positive renewal and reinforcement of my vegetarianism (which I had been wrestling with over the past year or so. yes, the secret is out for those near/dear). The book is a non-fiction poetical philosophical global and personal journey in 267 pages (hardcover). Well-crafted. Beautiful. Crushing. Empowering. Read it.
Anyhow...
Foer quotes B. R. Myers' review of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma (also a great read)... which is in reference to the way society is praises bringing factory farming into the public view but doesn't fully condemn the horrific practices we perpetuate:
The technique goes like this: One debates the other side in a rational manner until pushed in a corner. Then one simply drops the argument and slips away, pretending one has not fallen short of reason but instead transcended it. The irreconcilability of one's belief with reason is then held up as a great mystery, the humble readiness to live with which puts one above lesser minds and their cheap certainties
(quote extracted from Eating Animals; link to review theatlantic.com/doc/200709/omnivore; admitting now that I have not read the review in its entirety)
I wonder how often Courage does this or a version of this? How do the other characters in the show? How do we - in relation to many MANY ethical/moral "life choices"?
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