It is constantly being blinded and perverted by the ends and aims of passion, and the evidence it presents to us with such a show of impartiality and objectivity is fraught with interest and propaganda."Īnother part of the book I enjoyed, because when I was young and naive I argued and defended Marxism and Communism, were his thoughts on his flirtations with that ideology (and the disillusionment it invariably leads to upon further investigation): "I think that if there is one truth that people need to learn, in the world, especially today, it is this: the intellect is only theoretically independent of desire and appetite in ordinary, actual practice. Right now he's touching on addictions and talking about the struggle between the logical part of the brain (which knows instinctively some behaviors are self-destructive) and the will of the body.
I'm half way though it, so far it's really good. It's a memoir of a Trappist monk who 'Withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it'. I think it may have been someone in here who mentioned 'The Seven Storey Mountain'.
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