Saturday 10 January 2015

#JeSuisCharlie



A break in the normal pattern of posts to say #JeSuisCharlie and to put up a Guardian cartoon by Martin Rowson that I bought from Martin in   October 2005 and which speaks as well now as it did then.

For Martin on Charlie Hebdo see

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2015/jan/09/martin-rowson-charlie-hebdo-cartoon-free-speech

To paraphrase Ecclesiastes, of the making and taking of offence regarding images and Holy Writ there is no end, a truism that applies in the secular as well as the religious sphere.



'The gods did not enrich man with a knowledge of all things from the beginning of life. 
Yet man seeks, and in time invents what may be better.' 

- Xenophanes c. 570 – c. 475 BC





3 comments:

  1. Excellent stuff Eddie. Rowson cartoon may still be pertinent after so many years but so is the wisdom of Ecclesiastes and Xenophanes from ancient times.

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  2. A pity Rowson then accused those of us who wanted the Graun to make more of a stand of being "fascists who wanted to bomb Iran". I know he was scared, and said it was making his family physically ill, but that was uncalled for.

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