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I've been reading Shikasta by Doris Lessing. I didn't really begin enjoying it until I was about thirty pages in, but everything beyond that is golden. It is one of those novels that gives you so much food for thought that you aren't exactly sure what to start with first.
Shikasta is an Earth-like planet which a benevolent alien civilization has taken an interest in. Because it is a rather timely, considering the upcoming Presidential election this year, I thought I might post this quote:
The qualities prized in "public servants" on Shikasta were, almost invariably, the most superficial and irrelevant imaginable, and could only have been accepted in a time of near total debasement and falseness. This was true of all sects, groupings, "parties": for what was remarkable about this particular time was how much they all resembled each other, while they spent most of their energies in describing and denigrating differences that they imagined existed between them.
I've said this before, but not quite so elegantly or concisely. It's why I refused to state a party when I registered to vote. I dislike both parties equally, and they both have the same motive in mind: to control my life and perpetuate themselves at the cost of freedom and harmony. They just have different methods of getting there.
Shikasta is an Earth-like planet which a benevolent alien civilization has taken an interest in. Because it is a rather timely, considering the upcoming Presidential election this year, I thought I might post this quote:
The qualities prized in "public servants" on Shikasta were, almost invariably, the most superficial and irrelevant imaginable, and could only have been accepted in a time of near total debasement and falseness. This was true of all sects, groupings, "parties": for what was remarkable about this particular time was how much they all resembled each other, while they spent most of their energies in describing and denigrating differences that they imagined existed between them.
I've said this before, but not quite so elegantly or concisely. It's why I refused to state a party when I registered to vote. I dislike both parties equally, and they both have the same motive in mind: to control my life and perpetuate themselves at the cost of freedom and harmony. They just have different methods of getting there.
