Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
For that again is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted like everything that is positive while the other is infinite.
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
So I suppose poetry language the shaping of it was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
Music is essentially useless as is life.
New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.