“Americans tend to think of obedience as something that restricts our freedom when it fact it sets us free from the tediousness, arrogance, and narcissism of to our own selves being true.”
Chris Check in the latest issue of Catholic Answers magazine.
I remember the first time I heard that Polonius quote that Chris Check references in the article. It was from an episode of Gilligan’s Island where they performed Hamlet. I only remember this as the quote impressed me and appealed to my individualist narcissism. Yet this specific quote is embraced by many and put on placards. Instead, we should have wondered why Shakespeare put this line on Polonius’s lips and why it is just as foolish as the character.
