Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Politică

  • Quote of the day

    “Die Hysterie ist die unvermeidliche psychopolitische Verfassung durchmediatisierter Populationen. Sie hat sich infolge der nationalstaatlichen Lebensformen überall durchgesezt, wo Menschen es lernen mußten, im Strom medial konstruierter Dauerkommunikationen zu leben und sich auf die rhythmischen Themenwechsel der Zeitgeister einzurichten.” P. Sloterdijk – Nach Gott (S. 311-312)

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  • Feminist Haiku

    Feminist Haiku

    when you cannot choose, so you strive to be chosen: your name is woman.

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  • Election Haiku

    Election Haiku

    seduced by fiction, we end up devoured by the dry, bitter truth.

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  • Quote(s) of the day

    “There’s no greater sin than frittering your life away, Vadya. They don’t have the remotest notion that the goal of human existence might be something other than to live as long as possible, in as much comfort as possible. (…) “What these youngsters want is to be released from triviality, to escape from boredom. (…)…

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  • Quote of the day

    “For a long time we believed that machines were man’s instrument, but it’s now clear that men were the instruments that paved the way for machines. The transition will happen slowly: machines won’t subject men to their rule, but they’ll enter man, like an urge, an intimate aspiration. Even now, becoming a flawless machine is…

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  • Quote of the day

    “When we refuse to admit the interchangeable character of ideas, blood flows… Firm resolves draw the dagger; fiery eyes presage slaughter. No wavering mind, infected with Hamletism, was ever pernicious: the principle of evil lies in the will’s tension, in the incapacity for quietism, in the Promethean megalomania of a race that bursts with ideals,…

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  • The fighter jets

    It’s every day now. Can you hear the air shake? Several times a day those metal birds, sharp-beaked, slice a thin gash through the arched canopy of blue under which silent people walk (or walk their dogs), their gaze, as always, buried in the mud, the soft footpath, the yellowed hay – last year’s grass…

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  • Quote of the day

    “In the world of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions. (…) But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and…

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  • Quote of the day

    “The romantic movement, in its essence, aimed at liberating human personality from the fetters of social convention and social morality. (…) But egoistic passions, when once let loose, are not easily brought again into subjection to the needs of society. (…) By encouraging a new lawless Ego, it made social cooperation impossible, and left its…

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  • Quote of the day

    “It is simply learning a new language, but by the time you are through, the content of what you can talk about is monumentally different, as is the perspective from which you speak. (…) the better I got at engaging in this discourse, the more impossible it became for me to express my own ideas,…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the Republic without ever becoming aware what was involved in its proposals. It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him. This is the common fate of great men. My object…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Truth was no longer to be ascertained by consulting authority, but by inward meditation. There was a tendency, quickly developed, towards anarchism in politics, and, in religion, towards mysticism (…) The result, in thought as in literature, was a continually deepening subjectivism, operating at first as a wholesome liberation from spiritual slavery, but advancing steadily…

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