Recently I finished reading “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf. The following quote is somewhat off the general drift of the book’s theme but is something that keeps coming to mind.
‘No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. It is not love of truth, but the desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter.Â
This describes so well the root of so many of the problems we face today. I don’t really know how perople can believe so strongly in their creeds which are so obviously filled with contradictions and hypocrisy. And wearily, I quote again:
‘But these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.Â
April 24th, 2007
by Nannie
Collaborating on some good music is creed enough for me. It’s a wordless creed.
Less hypocrisy that way. Placing high value on it often means others put a low
economic value on you.