“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, February 8, 2011

“Don’t burn yourself up; burn up the fear that is inside you”

In his stalwart collecting of information and grief and joy concerning the current events in Egypt, Graham Harman directed me to this editorial by Thomas Friedman, with whom I've had my disagreements, no doubt. It's good reading.

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