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Lord Jim
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Jim’s father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing the ease of mind of those whom an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions.
Indoctrination for unthinking people?
As a minister, his approach should be consistent and unbiased regardless of socio-economic status!
Perpetuating the idea that their low social status is justified or ordained by god stifling critical thinking and discouraging lower classes from questioning social hierarchy, reinforcing resignation or fatalism to their position in society, consistent with Marxist ideology critical of religion as a tool for maintaining social control and class hierarchies! The absolute truth of the word of god should be the same regardless of socio-economic status.
The idea of absolute truth of the word of god is (in the real, rational world), relative and context based-- but should not need be if it were absolute.
See: The Ruined Cottage by Wordsworth. Reinforcing existing social order.
“This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“The voice fell low, sank into her breast and stretched the tight bodice over her heart as she came up close. He felt the young lips, her body sighing in relief against the arm growing stronger to hold her. There were now no more plans than if Dick had arbitrarily made some indissoluble mixture, with atoms joined and inseparable; you could throw it all out but never again could they fit back into atomic scale. As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward him, with her own lips, new to herself, drowned and engulfed in love, yet solaced and triumphant, he was thankful to have an existence at all, if only as a reflection in her wet eyes.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
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