Mark's Pages

October 23, 2012:

"Simple" encounters with "simple" acquaintances in the street: fishmongers, cobblers, carriage drivers, merchants at their stalls. "My people", he calls them, not to express solidarity but patronization, the same sense as kings or dictators. "My people", not "my equals", and when there's something they require "atoning" for, they become "the crowd", "the mob", some undifferentiated term, lacking individuality, or personalty, or worth.

Who is this creep? A major western religious thinker, the putative founder of Existentialism.