A quote from To Kill A Mockingbird
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This really struck me the other night.
“Mob’s a place where people go to take a break from their conscience,” he had told his daughter Scout. “A mob acts out of emotion, absent facts, absent contemplation, mostly absent responsibility. What they get in return is anonymity. Conscience can be exhausting.”
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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Amazing that it was pretty much the only book she wrote.
I guess she quit while she was ahead.
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This really struck me the other night.
“Mob’s a place where people go to take a break from their conscience,” he had told his daughter Scout. “A mob acts out of emotion, absent facts, absent contemplation, mostly absent responsibility. What they get in return is anonymity. Conscience can be exhausting.”
It’s a brilliant line.
You should listen to Sam Harris’ conversation with Nicholas Christokas about his experience at Yale. He goes into great detail about how he had to “re-individuate” people in the crowd, getting them to recognize him on a human-to-human basis rather than as a target of the collective.
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@Mik said in A quote from To Kill A Mockingbird:
No, she wrote Go Set A Watchman, sequel to Mockingbird. It was good, and a worthwhile story.
She also ripped Faulkner off pretty hard with that first one.
