Status Updates From Nothing Personal: An Essay

“(…)it means that the people are caught in a kind of vacuum between their present and their past —the romanticized, that is, the maligned past, and the denied and dishonored present. And in such a crisis, at such a pressure, it becomes absolutely indispensable to discover, or invent —the two words, here, are synonymous—the stranger, the barbarian, who is responsible for our confusion and our pain.”