Jo Eva’s Reviews > Notes from Underground > Status Update

"Just look around: rivers of blood are being spilt, and in the most cheerful way, as if it were champagne. Take this entire nineteenth century of ours during which even Buckle lived. Take Napoleon—both the great and the present one. Take North America—that eternal union... What is it that civilization makes kinder in us? Civilization merely promotes a wider variety of sensations in man and...absolutely nothing else."