Scientist of the Invisible

Andere Martijn verwijst naar een aantal artikelen in The Guardian over de rel over de aartsbisschop van Canterbury. Een hele goede vind ik dat van Madeleine Bunting, die schrijft dat de aartsbisschop niet naïef is, maar wel koppig en wiens conclusie uiteindelijk is:

"He was honouring his audience last night - many of whom were lawyers and academics - by engaging them in a complex exploratory argument. Here is a fine mind at work: what sort of anti-intellectual populism assumes we should be able to easily understand everything he says? It's a bad day when all our public figures are trapped in a parade of simplistic, anodyne platitudes: our politics have reached that degree of non-speak, and bishops are close behind them. What Williams did was defy all media convention - it was a rebellion against the spin and public relations mediation of public life; buried in all the frustration, there has to be a measure of awe for someone so recklessly prepared to buck the system and continue to be what he is - a big mind and a big heart but without a political bone in his body."

Ook gezien het onderwerp kan ik daar maar een ding op zeggen: "Amen".

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