Emptiness (part 2)
Twice over my short vacation, something was said in regards to the struggle with idols....both were things I needed to hear:
the coach of Friday Night Lights:
"It took me a long time to realize that....that there ain't much difference between winning and losing. Except for how the outside world treats you...but inside you, it's pretty much all the same. It really is. Fact of the matter is, I believe that our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed."
Discussion between authors Aldous Huxley and George Orwell (quoted by Mark Driscoll):
Huxley: You know what's going to kill us is getting enslaved to something we hate.
Orwell: No we will get enslaved by something we love...and THAT will kill us.
(In other words, it's often good things that we end up falling in love with, worshipping, and in turn, they enslave us and become a bad thing.)
Twice over my short vacation, something was said in regards to the struggle with idols....both were things I needed to hear:
the coach of Friday Night Lights:
"It took me a long time to realize that....that there ain't much difference between winning and losing. Except for how the outside world treats you...but inside you, it's pretty much all the same. It really is. Fact of the matter is, I believe that our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed."
Discussion between authors Aldous Huxley and George Orwell (quoted by Mark Driscoll):
Huxley: You know what's going to kill us is getting enslaved to something we hate.
Orwell: No we will get enslaved by something we love...and THAT will kill us.
(In other words, it's often good things that we end up falling in love with, worshipping, and in turn, they enslave us and become a bad thing.)
posted by Martin | 9:48 PM
1 Comments:
Your Huxley and Orwell quotes are backwards... Orwell wrote 1984... He was the one arguing again "Big Brother" and oppression. Huxley wrote Brave New World, he was the one arguing against the proliferation of pleasure, distraction, information to the point of irrelevance. Check out Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death." It's all about how Huxley was right.
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