/lit/ - Literature

Coleridge famously calls Iago "motiveless malice," and asserts that he ruins Othello's life for basically no good reason, simply evil for evil's sake.

Do you agree, /lit/? If not, what do you think motivates Iago?

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, ilberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

That is where the trouble starts. God does not necessarily imbue us with this kind of freedom. America has a view of freedom, of liberty, that is not in accord with what the Church teaches.

The Church teaches that our true freedom may often be found in a restriction on liberty, for the sake of our being made free of sin. But this is not what America teaches.

The United States teaches that every man may make of himself whatever he wants. This is deeply anti-Christian. It runs counter to the idea of God's Providence, and the idea that God has a vision for every soul and for the world at large. It is a kind of Faustian idea, of man being allowed to make his own way, to engineer by his own power, his own destiny. This is not Christian. It is not Catholic. It is not what the Church teaches.