Thursday, January 29, 2004

Good Question, Solid Answer

David Yeagley asks a question, in a post entitled “Where is Truth." A portion of his answer.

"There was an interesting lesson about how to package truth in these modern times, and how Americans may accept it. We can’t really credit Winston Groom (or Eric Wroth) with all the profundities suggested through the story of Forest Gu-ump, but there is a tell-tale element which reflects all that’s wrong with American society: truth is acceptable only in the form of a semi-retarded person. All that is precious in the human character, love, honesty, innocence, and even consistency, cannot be tolerated, accepted, experienced, or even recognized, except through the person who is “not all there.” All that is right with our ideals of character is precisely what was wrong with Forest. In his handicap alone could such precious jewels of character be set. Only there we could trust them as genuine. It is as if character really isn’t quite real, but seems to be only in an “unreal” person."

Posted by John Venlet on 01/29 at 05:46 AM
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