"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society...Literacy is a platform for demostration, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity...Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential." ---Kofi Annan

06 January, 2008

Deception Point post 6B

So... I started Decption Point, a really good book by Dan Brown who is my favorite author.
It's very interesting so far...

Anyway, I just...wasn't very inspired by this...
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OH! There we go!
In Deception Point, we fliped back and forth between Rachel Sexton and the political compaign of Senator Sexton.
::sigh::
And, as you might have noticed, it's another family filled with problems.
And, I am not going to get into that.

What I want to talk about in this post is the possible relation between glory and cheating.
I think all or at least most of us have lied to someone before.
And if you have not, well, good for you.
Most of the times we lie due to selfish reasons.
For instance, we don't want to be scorned, punished for what we have done wrong, and in my opinion, it is a twisted form of glory.
Also, there are people like Senator Sexton in this world who lied to create greater benefits to himself.

Another common example: cheating.
It's really similar to what Senator Sexton has done in Deception Point.
One cheats to get more questions correct, and again, glory.

Throughout history, people had used cheating, lying, and forcefully taken over to create benefits, glory anf fulfill one's desire which never ends.

And is it really worth it?
Only time could answer.

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