Tuesday, September 23, 2014

सर्वपित्री अमावस्या...Democracy Makes Each Man Forget His Ancestors



Today September 23 2014 is Sarvapitri Amavasya day (सर्वपित्री अमावस्या / पितृमोक्ष अमावस्या) in Marathi calendar.


Richard Dawkins:

"As things stand, it appears that all known life forms can be traced to a single ancestor which lived more than 3 billion years ago.”
 

Alexis de Tocqueville, ‘Democracy in America’:

“Not only does democracy make each man forget his ancestors, it hides his descendants from him, and divides him from his contemporaries; it continually turns him back into himself, and threatens, at last, to enclose him entirely in the solitude of his own heart.”

Well, not each man...
 

Artist: Barney Tobey, The New Yorker, June 23 1975

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