Adam Anderson

“We will not be saved by our money, our weapons, or our technological virtuosity; we might be rescued by the joyful and unprofitable pursuits of love, beauty, and contemplation”
― Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

“Whether true or errant, our loves make us what we are; so if we are what we desire, history is the convoluted record of our loves in all their magnificent and ignoble forms.”
― Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

“For rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“The manager of the hotel can talk of nothing else. But he has a personal grievance, too; that dead rats should be found in the elevator of a three-star hotel seems to him the end of all things. To console him, I said: ‘But, you know, everybody’s in the same boat.’ “ ‘That’s just it,’ he replied. ‘Now we’re like everybody else.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague