Status Updates From Men in Dark Times

“Qué tentador era ignorar simplemente el palabreo intolerable y estúpido de los nazis. Pero por seductor que parezca ceder a esas tentaciones y encerrarse en el refugio de la propia psique, el resultado será siempre una pérdida de humanidad que va a la par con el abandono de la realidad” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! que necesario es leer este libro precisamente ahora, con el panorama político y social actual

p. 244 “in capitalist countries opponents were not beaten to death and shipped home is sealed coffins”, but the citizens of the capitalist countries are fed the blood of the citizens abroad, the iraqis, the vietnamese, the afghanis, the somalis, the Algerians, etc., so that the oppressed are happy.

The previous sections of the chapter “Walter Benjamin “ was kind of too trivial but essential in a sense that those topics are of important part of his thought but how it was written made it too fragmented to be appreciated.