Read this my sophomore year of college in "World Literature."It's good. More like a fable than anything else. Basically just Voltaire trying to make a point about religion, fate, destiny, God, the evil of man and all that.
And Voltaire jives with what I've always thought about people: They're inherently they're selfish and bad, and if you leave them to their own devices they will screw up and never do what is right for others or humanity as a whole.
It's these types of ideas that I learned in college that really molded the way I think about policy and life today.
On a more shallow note, I did like that Candide went through all that shit only to have his girl turn out to be ugly.
No comments:
Post a Comment