Norman Cohen

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“In the undeclared class war, expressed through the weary, aggravating, and ultimately enraging wait for the American Dream, those I came to know developed a visceral hate for the ally of the “enemy” cutters in line—the federal government. They hated other people for needing it. They rejected their own need of it—even to help clean up the pollution in their backyard.”
― Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

“As I reviewed the social terrain of the right-leaning people I had come to know—the companies, the state government, the church, Fox News—I reflected on my keyhole issue. Everyone I was talking to was enduring a great deal of pollution and despite the silence from companies, politicians, and state officials, nearly everyone clearly knew it. To some, such as Lee Sherman and Harold and Annette Areno, exposure had become the defining experience of their lives. To others, it was a passing matter. While many, like Madonna Massey, spoke of their love of capitalism, the dominant industry in their economy presented a decidedly mixed story. Oil was highly automated and accounted for some 15 percent of jobs—and even some of those were going to foreign workers at lower pay. The state had made huge cuts to local jobs and social services in order to bring in companies and, instead of money trickling down, a third of it was leaking out. To some degree, the community had become the site of local production without being the site of local producers. They were victims without a language of victimhood.”
― Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right