Just finished Voltaire’s Candide I think it’s a new…
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Just finished Voltaire’s Candide
I think it’s a new favorite book. It’s wacky, horrifying, profound, moving, and many other fancy words. It is a story about how blind optimism is ultimately as damaging as total indifference (if not moreso, since the former is the cause of several of Candide’s problems in the book), and many quotes and passages from it are stuck in my mind.
I think Candide is perfect for our times; and especially the people in them who find themselves paralyzed with fear of the evil in the world. When dreaming of a future El Dorado utopia to come and save us from the darkness of the present proves fruitless, it is only through our active work in doing what we can as we “cultivate our garden” (as Candide says at the end) that lasting change in the world can come. Voltaire is a genius, I love this book and I’m definitely going to read it again.
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I think it’s a new favorite book. It’s wacky, horrifying, profound, moving, and many other fancy words. It is a story about how blind optimism is ultimately as damaging as total indifference (if not moreso, since the former is the cause of several of Candide’s problems in the book), and many quotes and passages from it are stuck in my mind.
I think Candide is perfect for our times; and especially the people in them who find themselves paralyzed with fear of the evil in the world. When dreaming of a future El Dorado utopia to come and save us from the darkness of the present proves fruitless, it is only through our active work in doing what we can as we “cultivate our garden” (as Candide says at the end) that lasting change in the world can come. Voltaire is a genius, I love this book and I’m definitely going to read it again.
#entertainment
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