[lit-ideas] Re: terror & elections
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:23:41 EDT
In a message dated 8/2/2004 10:37:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
teme17@xxxxxxxxx writes:
At this point, swayed by the logic the American public
turns to the problem that has troubled men from
Ireneaus to English National Team fans: Is God Evil?
As a consequence, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics rockets to the top of the
New York Times bestseller list, joining overnight bestsellers like Aquinas'
Summa, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Simone de Beauvoir's
Ethics
of Ambiguity, Paul Celan's Collected Poems, and the Analects of Confucius.
Justin Timberlake's new single, "Is Shakespeare Iago?" hits number two on the
Billlboard Top Twenty, and Andreas Ramos' latest invention, The Gigabyte Moral
Compass for Palm Pilot gets PC World's 7-star rating for Deliberative Software.
Meanwhile Bin Laden, depressed over the transformation of acts of evil into
durational expressions of the good, develops an acute eating disorder and
chokes on an unheated portion of Chef Boyardee Ravioli. Chastened, Al Zawahiri
is
converted to Catholicism and joins the Carthusian order.
This too shall pass.
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