Isms, New and Old.

I’ve discovered my identity: I’m a spiritual anarchist. I was thinking of founding a Society for Spiritual Anarchism, which would have five tenets:

Ignore all religions

Sweep away all traditions

Sack all the wise people

Accept that neither you nor anybody else actually knows anything, and put your trust in instinct and intuition

Most of all, accept that you’ve probably got a lot of things wrong

I thought better of it, because then it would be another ism, wouldn’t it? And that would be missing the point. Isn’t life complicated?

And on a surprisingly apposite note, I remembered another of my favourite lines from Father Ted:

‘No, no, Dougal. Fascists are men in black uniforms who go around telling people what to do, whereas priests are…are…’