Theos-Talk Archives (January 2000 Message tt00020)

Some time ago, I read an interesting incident.

It was during the time when Mussolini was in power and was very popular in
the country. 

Jiddu Krishnamurti happened to schedule a series of talks in Rome. On the
first day of his talk, he was very surprised. The lecture hall was full and
the front rows were occupied by the top military brass in their shiny
uniforms with their medals and other bureaucrats of Mussolini
administration. The turn out of the military and government bureaucrats
surprised even Krishnamurti. 

It appears there was some rumors that Mussolini was interested in
Krishnamurti's philosophy and this triggered the immediate interest of the
military brass and bureaucrats and it appears they turned out to hear him
in the hope the turnout will reach the ears of Mussolini and be his good
books.

Lo and behold, the next day, at the talk all this crowd disappeared. There
were few members of the public who were really interested in what
Krishnamurti had to say. The disappearance of military brass and
bureaucrats was due their having found out that after all Mussolini was not
interested in Krishnamurti's philosophy.

This incident simply shows very few are really interested in philosophy.
The crowd -- in particular bureaucrats -- generally show interest for
reasons other than real commitment to philosophy.

As an analogy, if there were to be a *rumor* that the Theosophical Adepts
are interested in Internet, may be all the bureacrats and others may
suddenly show an interest in Internet because of it could please the
Adepts!!!  Just a speculation.

Any one listening????

mkr

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