Monday, February 16, 2004

i just feel so tongue-tied...

When asked who killed Jesus, Mel Gibson said, "The big answer is, we all did. I'll be the first in the culpability stakes here." (emphasis added)

And now a quote from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, section 125, regarding "The madman": "'Whither is God?' he cried; 'I will tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers.'"

Need I point out the irony of this? The Gibson controversy just gets weirder and weirder...

[Note: I'm not suggesting Gibson is a "madman." In fact, Nietzsche's madman is later developed into the character of Zarathustra, who is traditionally (and rightly) credited as being Nietzsche's philosophical mouthpiece.]

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