Baraka_Guru

Again, I'm not convinced that he doesn't believe in his own message. Is it false piety? Political evangelist, I'll accept, but I'm not sure whether his piety is false.

That's an interesting thought, regardless, the idea that Beck is just playing a role as a career, to make money. It reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, a novel about propaganda and performance, within which Vonnegut wrote in the Introduction, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot