This catches my eye. It sounds a pertinent warning to bloggers, as much as any other communicators.
"Certainly, it’s hard to imagine any successor providing a Dostoevskian reading of the Leveson Inquiry (he once told David Cameron he should read more of the great Russian novelist). “Dostoevsky is an amazing analyst of cliché, of the half-thought, and the half-feeling of politics, Right and Left. But what Dostoevsky is pushing at us all the time is that you are responsible for a great deal more than you know. You are answerable for the people you want to ignore. That cuts both ways. You may find that the words you used innocently are actually responsible for pushing someone else into despair or violence.” "
" You may find that the words you used innocently are actually responsible for pushing someone else into despair or violence.”
ReplyDeleteI often think of the rhetoric of some of the African Primates - about the 'demonic' disposition of homosexuals.
Suicide is so often the result of such misplaced criticism of people who have no other identity than that with which they find their lives seemingly blighted.
Jesus, mercy; Mary, pray!