All questions about priorities are good  because  life is often a zero sum
game: you can't give full attention to two things at the same time, and even
Bill Gates has limited resources.

William asks "What is worthy about sentimentality? " -- but that answer
depends upon the  more important question of  "what is worthy about culture?",
and outside of a theological context, it's rather difficult to come up with an
answer.   Saul complains that Capitalism  "destroys our ability to develop to
our full capacity as human
beings" -- but where has such full capacity ever occurred and how can it be
gauged?

As I recall, Kirby also came up with a choice:   between saving  a train
loaded with great Art and a train full of children.  Preferring to save the
train of great art, I was immediately called a "Nazi" -- so it's comforting to
note (as Luc tells us) that in choosing between "a score written by Mozart or
a human being,  He (George Steiner) picked up the score."  (and Steiner is
also quoted as saying "my whole life has been about death, remembering and the
Holocaust")




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