September 2010
9 posts
Finitude
And Port had said: “Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don’t know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It’s that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don’t know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many...
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Radical Simplicity
The revolutionary faith was shaped not so much by the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment (as is generally believed) as by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany. This faith was incubated in France during the revolutionary era within a small subculture of literary intellectuals who were immersed in journalism, fascinated by secret societies, and subsequently infatuated with...
“I think that libertarians have often joined the aspiration to this anti-statist,...”
– Jacob T. Levy writes in to Cato Unbound
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“But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed,...”
– Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry
“In Seeing Like a State, and as a student of politics, I concentrate on...”
– Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Trouble with the View from Above
She had accepted it as her fate, to be borne with patience and a straight back, that this had fallen to her. Just as she had striven to be patient and steadfast no matter what life presented, every time she learned she was carrying yet another child under her breats — again and again. With each son added to the flock she recognized that her responsibility had grown for ensuring the...