I recently visited Athens Greece Walking round its Ancient Agora mdash the marketplace where philosophers taught and Athenians worshiped mdash I found altars to Apollo and Zeus all in the shadow of the Acropolis where a statue of the goddess Athena once stood We may not bow to Apollo or Zeus today but society is no less religious ldquo Everybody worships rdquo novelist David Foster Wallace said adding this warning ldquo If you worship money and things then you will never have enough Worship your body and beauty and you will always feel ugly Worship your intellect and you will
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