Friday 17 January 2020

Creator versus Curator

Some words crystallise our overweening pride about who we are in the scientific age.  Curator suggests someone who can pick and choose from a range of options and features to bring together a pleasing display according to his own mind. When this principle is applied to human being counter to the old idea that that being is simply given by a creator who is not us (or even by evolution which is not us) we have the modern version of what we are; tinfoil creatures assembled by a magpie mind for passing amusement with no sense of the miraculousness or dignity of their own being. I think I’ll be Queer today and have my earlobe gouged and stretched. It’ll be a talking point for a while.

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