Dinner with Mugabe
After reading Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar i took a much needed break by reading a few comic books. Now its back to reading about tyrants. I have just started Dinner with Mugabe, by Heidi Holland. Once again, as with the book on Stalin, i encounter the same conclusions. The people perpetrating some of the most horrific acts in human history are just that, people like you and me.
“According to British Actor Sir Ian McKellen, who over a career spanning 40 years has brought to life monsters of every epoch from Iago to Rasputin: ‘One of the few lessons i have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that we are all capable of doing almost anything.’”
It’s when i read such statements that i realise i should not take anyone’s actions or behaviour for granted. Including my own.