IS IDOL THE IDEAL THEN?

IS IDOL THE IDEAL THEN?

The principle counts, not so much the personality. The latter illustrates the former and, hence, catches the public imagination. Gross we are and the grosser part comprehend. Thus, principle is lost in personality and the universal degenerates into the individual. Photographs appending posts invariably do this. The message is lost in the form, the substance lost in the image. And this is idolatry indeed.

Written by Sugata Bose