“
Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.
— from ‘The Cocktail Party’ by T.S. Eliot …and here ends tonight’s T.S. Eliot extravaganza as it is past one a.m. and as ever, I am busy tomorrow. But “absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves” quite sums up the nauseating way I’ve spent most of these past twenty years (or at least a good ten of them). Edit: yes there was a typo — should be world not word.
