Scott Bielinski’s Reviews > The Melancholy of Resistance > Status Update

“Everyone was talking about ‘the unstoppable stampede into chaos’, …. and the ‘approaching catastrophe’ without a clear notion of … these frightening words, since, he surmised, this epidemic of fear was not born out of … increasing certainty of disaster but of an infection of the imagination whose susceptibility to its own terrors might eventually lead to an actual catastrophe…” (95-96)