“No man is an island” – John Donne
by richibi
“John Donne Arriving in Heaven“ (1911)
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the Munk Debates have been going
on for some time now, a community
service program of the very highest
order, personalities of considerable
note come together to champion their
positions on questions of supreme
importance in our global environment
Hitchens, the notorious, and highly
influential, atheist contrarian, on
religion, and suffered to him an
ignominious defeat
the crude but highly influential military
advocate and, for a time, Canada’s Chief
of Defence Staff, as well as the irascible
Robert Bolton, American Ambassador to
the U.N during the George W. Bush
administration, and mightily held her
own
Henry Kissinger has spoken on China,
Glenn Greenwald, the man who
published Edward Snowden’s trove
of leaked documents, discusses state
surveillance, others, all, have
contributed to eloquent, and often
riveting, exchanges
last week the Canadian program went
continent-wide, including, this time,
in other words, the United States,
Louise Arbour, the highly respected
Canadian jurist, and other mostly
Simon Schama, a political pundit,
polished credentials, it appeared to me,
instead of solid information, but stopped
the show nevertheless with a recitation
a literary document of the highest
consequence we’ve all heard but never
quite properly placed, during otherwise
more conventional closing arguments
despite strong opposition to my
perspective from the site’s comment
is on this issue not a bad at all place to
start
Richard
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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