I Persist In Preferring Philosophers To Rabbis

Socialists Find Me Too Far Left; Trotskyites Not Far Enough; Ecologists Say I Am Too Happy Eating Foie Gras, Defending Nuclear Energy And Gm Plants; Feminists Find I Am Not Enough Of A Woman; Anarchists A Petit-bourgeois Who Has Sold Out Because I Believe In Universal Suffrage.

I Have A Big Problem With Islam.

I Persist In Preferring Philosophers To Rabbis Priests Imams Ayatollahs And Mullahs. Rather Than Trust Their Theological Hocus-pocus I Prefer To Draw On Alternatives To The Dominant Philosophical Historiography: The Laughers Materialists Radicals Cynics Hedonists Atheists Sensualists Voluptuaries. They Know That There Is Only One World And That Promotion Of An Afterlife Deprives Us Of The Enjoyment And Benefit Of The Only One There Is. A Genuinely Deadly Sin.

How Strange That Excision – Female Circumcision, With Several Languages Using The Same Term For Both Kinds Of Mutilation – Of Little Girls Should Revolt The Westerner But Excite No Disapproval When It Is Performed On Little Boys. Consensus On The Point Seems Absolute. But Ask Your Interlocutor To Think About The Validity Of This Surgical Procedure, Which Consists Of Removing A Healthy Part Of A Nonconsenting Child’s Body On Nonmedical Grounds – The Legal Definition Of… Mutilation.

If We Include Hedonistic Philosophy In Hospitals, The Lives Of Patients Suffering From Cancer Would Be Much, Much Better.