It was very interesting to be reading Jeff Snyder’s “Good Men Make Good Rhinoceros” considering the fact that he is an attorney working in New York. Snyder is also the author of Nation of Cowards - Essays on the Ethics of Gun Control. The first thing that struck me when I read the first few paragraphs of his writing was how this great play of absurdity, “Rhinoceros” by Eugene Ionesco was even the interest of a lawyer in practice. Relating the September 11 tragedy in New York, Afghanistan war, Iraqi war and the presidential of Bush pertaining to war, Snyder felt it is worth to revisit this play with the idea of “coercive conformity of behaviour and opinion that is required to mobilize society and its resources for war”.
Synder’s writing gave me an understanding about the idea of conformity in a philosophical perspective. Concluding his writing “…how well “Rhinoceros” potrays the human condition or sheds light upon current events is best left to the reader” indeed is stimulating especially to such inexperience reader of great literary work like me.
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