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LET US FIRST ASK OURSELVES WHAT SHOULD BE understood by “a tragic optimism.” In brief it means that one is, and remains, optimistic in spite of the “tragic triad,” as it is called in logotherapy, a triad which consists of those aspects of
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“For the first time in twenty-five years there was no Person of Color on the Board of Estimate, whatever traditional roles they’d had in City government erased. Squeezed by growing immigration, the breakdown of old political networks, a changing economy and soon, waves of drugs, crime, and disease, New York’s African Americans would be forced over the next thirty-five years into new cultural and social strategies that would in turn change the world.”
― New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
― New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
“The gameboard became what I imagine as a galaxy of 8 ½ million lives connected to each other in ways beyond counting: those with the most connections—and therefore the most access to favors, advice, job tips, and string pulling—shone the brightest, and the reconnection and reorganization of New Yorkers sent new tastes, ideas, resources, and behaviors coursing through every borough, unleashing financial, human, and social capital. Like a giant brain, the more connections, the more synapses firing, the higher functioning New York became. Those without wide connections, or with none at all, were left behind.”
― New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
― New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
“The development of the forces of production was never an end in itself for Marx. The saving of labour-time, he said, should in the last analysis result in a restructuring of man: The free time – which is both leisure time and time for higher activity – has naturally changed its owner into another Subject, and as this other Subject he then enters directly into the process of production.70 Thilo Ramm points out correctly that this theory of the origin of a new man constitutes the innermost kernel of Marx’s teaching.”
― The Concept Of Nature In Marx
― The Concept Of Nature In Marx
“It is not made of air at all, but of ghost,—the substance of quintillions of quintillions of generations of souls blended into one immense translucency,—souls of people who thought in ways never resembling our ways. Whatever mortal man inhales that atmosphere, he takes into his blood the thrilling of these spirits; and they change the sense within him,—reshaping his notions of Space and Time,—so that he can see only as they used to see, and feel only as they used to feel, and think only as they used to think. Soft as sleep are these changes of sense; and Horai, discerned across them, might thus be described:—”
― Kwaidan - Stories and Studies of Strange Things
― Kwaidan - Stories and Studies of Strange Things
“More than ever, balancing public and private, inside and out, me and we, will be central tensions of New York, and if we intend to hand a peaceful, prosperous, and generative city to our children, then we must all play active roles in its next evolution and consciously participate in civil life beyond work, shopping, and leisure. We will have to rethink our networks; our own personal networks—who’s in them and what are they connected to—but also carefully and inclusively rebuild collective powers to confront the ones that have torn us apart, ones that can guarantee everyone access to basic resources like health care, housing, and justice.”
― New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
― New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
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