The most aggressive, yet seemingly mute conceptual paradox of our age, because largely unarticulated - I die, therefore I am – owes its authority, as with the greatest paradoxes of mankind, to Religion – You must die to be saved. In the midst of life, we are in death. Only through death are we re-born etc, etc… These in turn are anchored to the very biological paradox that defines human existence – life as a progression towards extinction.
http://www.mtls.ca/issue13/writings/essay/wole-soyinka/
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