“إن العزلة ضرورية لاتساع الذات وامتلائها، فالعزلة تشفي أدواءها وتشدد عزائمها.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“كلما ارتفعنا أكثر كلما بدونا أصغر حجماً لأولئك الذين لا يجيدون الطيران..!!”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"لا تستمر العلاقات الإنسانية بأي طريقة. فقط أول أسبوعين يحتويان على بعض الحيوية، ثم يبدأ المشاركان في فقدان اهتمامهم. تسقط الأقنعة ويبدأ الناس الحقيقيون في الظهور: سيئو الطبع، الحمقى، المجانين، المنتقمون، الساديون، القتلة... أقصى ما يأمله المرء في علاقة هو عامان ونصف.”
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"لا تستمر العلاقات الإنسانية بأي طريقة. فقط أول أسبوعين يحتويان على بعض الحيوية، ثم يبدأ المشاركان في فقدان اهتمامهم. تسقط الأقنعة ويبدأ الناس الحقيقيون في الظهور: سيئو الطبع، الحمقى، المجانين، المنتقمون، الساديون، القتلة... أقصى ما يأمله المرء في علاقة هو عامان ونصف.”
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“Let’s think about the fake sense of urgency that pervades the left-liberal humanitarian discourse on violence: in it, abstraction and graphic (pseudo)concreteness coexist in the staging of the scene of violence-against women, blacks, the homeless, gays . . . “A woman is rpaed every six seconds in this country” and “In the time it takes you to read this paragraph, ten children will die of hunger” are just two examples. Underlying all this is a hypocritical sentiment of moral outrage. Just this kind of pseudo-urgency was exploited by Starbucks a couple of years ago when, at store entrances, posters greeting costumers pointed out that a portion of the chain’s profits went into health-care for the children of Guatemala, the source of their coffee, the inference being that with every cup you drink, you save a child’s life.
There is a fundamental anti-theoretical edge to these urgent injunctions. There is no time to reflect: we have to act now. Through this fake sense of urgency, the post-industrial rich, living in their secluded virtual world, not only do not deny or ignore the harsh reality outside the area-they actively refer to it all the time. As Bill Gates recently put it: “What do the computers matter when millions are still unnecessarily dying of dysentery?”
Against this fake urgency, we might want to place Marx’s wonderful letter to Engels of 1870, when, for a brief moment, it seemed that a European revolution was again at the gates. Marx’s letter conveys his sheer panic: can’t the revolution wait for a couple of years? He hasn’t yet finished his ‘Capital’.”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
There is a fundamental anti-theoretical edge to these urgent injunctions. There is no time to reflect: we have to act now. Through this fake sense of urgency, the post-industrial rich, living in their secluded virtual world, not only do not deny or ignore the harsh reality outside the area-they actively refer to it all the time. As Bill Gates recently put it: “What do the computers matter when millions are still unnecessarily dying of dysentery?”
Against this fake urgency, we might want to place Marx’s wonderful letter to Engels of 1870, when, for a brief moment, it seemed that a European revolution was again at the gates. Marx’s letter conveys his sheer panic: can’t the revolution wait for a couple of years? He hasn’t yet finished his ‘Capital’.”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
“كن على حذر من التطرف في حبك ,فإن المنفرد يمد يده متسرعاً لمصافحة من يلتقي في طريقه.إن من الناس من يجب عليك ألا تمدّ اليهم يداً ,بل مخلباً ناشباً .”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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