We want heroes, role models, saints, exemplars
Keep looking!
Ramakrishna had his soft spot for the young lads, didn’t he?
Howard Zinn had affairs
Gandhi slept in his old age along side young Hindu relatives
Brecht’s Galileo, too, likes the delicious things in life and fears the instruments shown him
Yes, Ramakrishna loved Kali
Zinn loved the power of the people
Gandhi loved the struggle
Galileo loved science
The message for us
We little, ordinary people (in Easwaran’s terminology)–
Andrea: “Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero”
Galileo: No, Andrea: “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero” —
We must take over
The heroship
–February 2013
