Listening to the prayerful, yearning for the one source, the one force to ‘take control’, thoughts and feelings rise to the surface.
What is ‘free will’? What is ‘independence’?
Much is expressed about personal responsibility. How much can we trust ourselves as individuals?
In some circles, the bowing and scraping to things that probably don’t exist is highly visible.
In others, ideas such as ‘the canon’ or ‘popular culture’ are euphemisms for something similar.



