Okay, enough of the politics already. As predicted, I already lost one Bloglines reader and happily, I don’t even know who it is. I have tried to avoid politics here in Spinning, but it is regretfully more a part of me than I’d suspected, and with the wealth of discourse on the topic via weblogging, it has been as tough to keep it out of my daily musings as more personal information. But you still don’t know exactly which way I’m going—no, you don’t–because I myself am not fully settled into a decision.
Man is a social animal, seeking common ground with others as a communication device. Just had a thought here, that as God has lost footing in the contemporary world as a super power, man has replaced the concept of a god due to his own needs by anointing other humans in His place. Sometimes based on celebrity, sometimes on political power and energy.
Guess it’s true that civilization seeks a leader. Only difference is that the many versions of “God” based upon religious belief all have much in common; goodness, guidance, promise of reward. In deifying human specimens, we specify instead certain qualities such as youth, power, wealth, as much as goodness.
Sorta like the multitude of gods of Greeks and Romans, no?
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