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I am happy to announce a new feature on my website. “Perspectives” will bring to my blogs features that interest me from current news, literature, art, social science, philosophy and other topics that catch my eye. These days, political campaigns feature big money, television, questionable…

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The hearth is as dangerous as alcohol. W.B. Yeats

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Im Kampf zwischen Dir und derWelt, sekundiere der Welt:   In the struggle between you and the world, take the side of the world. (Kafka’s Notebooks)

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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and describe and then make credible much of American reality.   It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing…

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please.   Karl Marx “18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”    

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We shape our tools, then our tools shape us.   Marshall McLuhan  

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The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.   Donald Barthelme  

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The greatness of works of art lies solely in their power to let those things be heard which ideology conceals.   Theodor Adorno

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Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism in the interests of human reason. Business can’t. Diplomacy won’t. It has to be people like us.   Robert Byron “The Road to Oxiana” (1937)  

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My critique of America remains fundamentally incoherent…All I know is that although I live a freer life than many people, I want to be freer still. I’m sometimes positively dazzled with longing for a better way of being. What is it that I need?  …

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