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I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or originals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).

Saturday, August 11, 2007

The Crooked Path to Enlightenment

Whether we're the result of God's design or of natural selection based on survival, one has to wonder why Man is endowed with such remarkable lack of self-awareness. Would we all race out lemming-like and jump off the nearest cliff if we could see ourselves as we really are? Case in point, politics are to a disconcerting degree driven by the religious zealotry of people who leave their compassion at the church doors after the Sunday service. As Gerald Stanley Lee, a 19th century preacher much followed in his day, said, "the only trouble with goodness is the people who claim to have a hold on it."

posted by John M Crowther @ 7:29 AM 

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One evening at a family gathering we were sitting around the dinner table discussing, (alright, gossiping) about another relative who is dead. Amazing how each of us saw her differently from one another. Some loved her, some hated her. If I saw myself as other see me, would probably shoot myself, with my luck, miss and lose a big toe only.

This cartoon really had me laughing, John C. At the risk of sounding repetitively have to say this is definitely another for the New Yorker. This has a true ring of truth about it which makes it even funnier. Goes on my list of favorites.

9:12 AM  

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