Subversive Belief
September 20, 2011
A reader from Scotland sent this link in this morning, on the subversive nature of belief in modern culture.
As a postscript, the reference to Richard Dawkins is interesting. Back home the other week, I watched a BBC documentary on P G Wodehouse. Among the many intelligent commentators interviewed, Dawkins popped up. His contribution amounted to a thrity second slot where he declared something along the lines of `P G Wodehouse wrote some very funny stories,' surely an insight of the profundity of `The Pope is Catholic' or "Belgium is quite a small country.'
Celebrification brings in its wake that ability to say anything, however banal, on any subject and have it sound like a unique insight.
As a postscript, the reference to Richard Dawkins is interesting. Back home the other week, I watched a BBC documentary on P G Wodehouse. Among the many intelligent commentators interviewed, Dawkins popped up. His contribution amounted to a thrity second slot where he declared something along the lines of `P G Wodehouse wrote some very funny stories,' surely an insight of the profundity of `The Pope is Catholic' or "Belgium is quite a small country.'
Celebrification brings in its wake that ability to say anything, however banal, on any subject and have it sound like a unique insight.
