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Maybe that’s what religion is: a god ersatz rather than his affirmation.
“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
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“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
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Japanese Literature
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A group for people who enjoy literature written by Japanese authors, the arts, culture, and history of Japan. May 2026: Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawa ...more
Existential Book Club
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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
Situationist Theory
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This is a group for the discussion of Situationist theory, with an emphasis on modern contextual analysis. The book list will include Situationists ...more
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