I found David Seruyange’s blog post via White African. He has a great review of the book the ‘Quiet American’ and he wrote…
“Americans are ideologues. George Washington was an ideologue. The people who come here to find a future are also ideologues and that is where their American-ness begins. The focal point of that ideology is idealism; that good and evil exist; a notion that the world can be better, that our individual actions can find traction here to bring that “better” closer to us – for some that means closer to their children as they see thier lives as mere stepping stones for a better future.
Ideology is dangerous, and when it mixes with an idea that necessary sacrifice can be made it becomes a very potent evil. We forget to ask ourselves who sacrifices, who dies as a result of any “noble” effort. But the world needs ideas, and it most certainly needs ideals. It needs fools who believe in love. It needs the sort of simple mindedness that can say “all men are created equal.”
Barack Obama was on the Daily Show! I only caught a couple of minutes, i will be looking for the repeat tomorrow or video on C&L.
Afro, David is an old friend – and one of the most intelligent guys I know. He always does great book reviews and was at the blogging thing well before it was popular.
His review of the Quiet American was outstanding as usual. This quote alone is worth it:
But the world needs ideas, and it most certainly needs ideals. It needs fools who believe in love. It needs the sort of simple mindedness that can say â??all men are created equal.â?
Interviews from the Daily Show go up on the Comedy Central web site several days after they air (in their entirety):
http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/celebrity_interviews/index.jhtml
Yep, my take goes hand in hand with the “the world needs both ideas & ideals…” I also strongly believe in dreams, dreaming & wakeful dreaming. Those have gotten me far, guess I now need to be a “fool” to go further:))
-Haven’t watched The Daily Show in a long while but will try catching Obama ‘morrow(that’s today Wednesday,right?). I also just missed “Jr.Gong” on the Tarvis Smiley show but they said they’re reruning it morrow Thursday.
As always, nice post & hope U don’t mind me “replanting” this here comment:)…?
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Welcome back & congrats AfroM, I sensed that hiatus was all for a good cause. Nice new site & very good template & layout. Will mos def be back for more from you. -akiey-
This is nice…the green has nice afro – touch to it. love the simplicity
thanks jjr!
Akiey, wakeful dreaming..i like that. I missed the repeat..can you imagine?! I was out randarand ing… tivo is needed! Eh jr gong on Tavis Smiley…will watch out for it today.
Msanii
glad you like it…now i kinda feel the pressure to post more stuff.
hash…for some reason i hadnt seen your comment. Glad that you shared a link to his blog…indeed. That qoute was quite powerful.