Status Updates From Del vino y el hachís

“Man has tried to become God, and soon we see him, by virtue of an implacable moral law, fallen lower than his real nature. He is a soul which sells itself piecemeal.” This is a critique of hashish—but Baudelaire could be just as easily talking about our contemporary relationship to and addiction to social technologies

“‘…and it was not without a certain well-being, a prosaic satisfaction, that I finally felt myself to be back at home, in my intellectual home, I mean real life.’
So speaks a woman of obvious good sense…”

A real perk of reading thinkpieces from a century+ ago is that they have a habit of reaffirming the adage that nothing changes—including what it means to be of good sense.

I love how much Baudelaire loves wine