Amoz Oz was recently in Gothenburg (where I live) promoting his newest book “Rhyming life and death”.

It made me pick up a copy of  Amoz Oz`s “how to cure a fanatic”. If you haven’t read it, it is a must read (and short read) for anyone interested in finding common ground with people you don’t necessarily like, and how to find a way to live together with people you dont really want to

live together with!

If you dont want to read it have a look at some of his thoughts on the Palestinian/Israel conflict.

Part one:

Part two:

I saw a documentary about Amos Oz tonight.

You can watch it here.

He says the following towards the end of the movie;

“we live now in a world where people work harder than they should be working in order to make more money than they really need, in order to buy things they don’t really want in order to impress people they don’t really like. this will lead to a certain reaction, and this reaction will brings back some kind of voluntary collectivist spirit.”

Amos Oz

Read more about this remarkable writer here, and read an interview with newsweek here.