"Having an enemy is important not only to define our identity but also to provide us with an obstacle against which to measure our system of values and, in seeking to overcome it, to demonstrate our own worth. So when there is no enemy, we have to invent one."
Photo source: Ufficio Stampa Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
Umberto Eco, Inventing the Enemy
Leonard Seet is the author of the novels Magnolias in Paradise and Meditation on Space-Time. His articles and short fiction have appeared in Duende Literary Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and Pilcrow & Dagger.
Labels:
humanity,
philosophy,
politics,
social norms,
strategy,
Umberto Eco,
wisdom
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