Katrice’s Reviews > Cave and Shadows > Status Update

Suffering is the fussing over the how and the why; was regretting what was, or bewailing what is, or fearing what will be.

A colony within a colony, because we were then an American possession. And it was then that I began to see what a number of colonies we really were -- a Chinese colony in trade, a Spanish colony in culture, a Washington colony in politics, a Hollywood colony in fashion, an English colony in language, a Roman colony in religion -- and so forth, Even Bombay and Tokyo and Arabia had in some way colonized us.

Aside from public affection for a leader, love plays little part in politics, through it’s always being invoked: love of this and love for that. But politics is what we have instead of love; it’s how we arrange for safety and justice in a society where people don’t care much for one another.