Guardian’s Thoughts

One of my favourite philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard, wrote about choice.  He said that most people live their lives like drunken peasants on a cart, letting the horse wander where it will.  They make no real choices in their lives.  For Kierkegaard, the process of becoming a realised, authentic self is the act of choosing to base one’s life on one principle, and then letting other choices follow on from that.  He wrote about “stages on life’s way”, and gave different examples of what one could base one’s life on.

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I never thought I’d be recommending a quote by Bob Geldof but…

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/10/bob-geldof-vs-the-wa.html

I think we all accept that human beings suffer from an aweful lot of unnecessary illnesses, thanks to our lifestyles and attitudes.  Certainly being emersed in a chemical-laced environment (4500 legal additives are used in food in the UK) is at once totally insane and also readily accepted.

This article caught my eye.