God Chose What Is Weakest In The

I Do Not Know Whether To Be Delighted Or Outraged By The Fact That Literary Theory: An Introduction Was The Subject Of A Study By A Well Known U.s. Business School, Which Was Intrigued To Discover How An Academic Text Could Become A Best-seller.

People Do Evil Things Because They Are Evil. Some People Are Evil In The Way That Some Things Are Coloured Indigo. They Commit Their Evil Deeds Not To Achieve Some Goal, But Just Because Of The Sort Of People They Are.

The Role Of The Intellectual, So It Is Said, Is To Speak Truth To Power. Noam Chomsky Has Dismissed This Pious Tag On Two Grounds. For One Thing, Power Knows The Truth Already; It Is Just Busy Trying To Conceal It. For Another, It Is Not Those In Power Who Need The Truth, But Those They Oppress.

Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.

Evil Is Unintelligible. It Is Just A Thing In Itself, Like Boarding A Crowded Commuter Train Wearing Only A Giant Boa Constrictor. There Is No Context Which Would Make It Explicable.