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“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
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“Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness.
"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
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"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
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“Inequality of outcome among today’s generation is the source of the unfair advantage received by the next generation. If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcome today.”
― Inequality: What Can Be Done?
― Inequality: What Can Be Done?
“The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination.”
― The Burnout Society
― The Burnout Society
“Il terrorismo è la nuova forma della guerra, è il modo di fare la guerra degli ultimi sessant'anni: contro le popolazioni, prima ancora che tra eserciti o combattenti. La guerra che si può fare con migliaia di tonnellate di bombe o con l'embargo, con lo strangolamento economico o con i kamikaze sugli aerei o sugli autobus.
La guerra che genera guerra, un terrorismo contro l'altro, tanto a pagare saranno poi i civili inermi.
Sono quindici anni che vedo atrocità compiute da vari signori della guerra, chi si diceva di "destra" e chi di "sinistra", e non ci ho mai trovato grandi differenze. Ho visto ovunque la stessa schifezza, il macello di esseri umani. Ho visto la brutalità e la violenza, il godimento nell'uccidere un nemico indifeso.”
― Buskashì. Viaggio dentro la guerra
La guerra che genera guerra, un terrorismo contro l'altro, tanto a pagare saranno poi i civili inermi.
Sono quindici anni che vedo atrocità compiute da vari signori della guerra, chi si diceva di "destra" e chi di "sinistra", e non ci ho mai trovato grandi differenze. Ho visto ovunque la stessa schifezza, il macello di esseri umani. Ho visto la brutalità e la violenza, il godimento nell'uccidere un nemico indifeso.”
― Buskashì. Viaggio dentro la guerra
Andrea’s 2025 Year in Books
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