Give me the politics of Orwell and Camus.
Writers used to be so bad, so... rule-breaking, sometimes cruel, generally dangerous, unpredictable, worried, sublime. Now, of course, you have to be very nice. You can't have rough edges. If you do, you have to hide them. Nice people have to produce very pretty-looking and comforting books with many colors on the cover and blurbs from other very nice people.
Goethe dreamed of both the Panama and Seuz Canals.
Despite my anxiety about money and the future, in comparison with (what I know about) the past, the comfort I live with seems unreal; it is hard to believe that, like so many others, I feel so insecure and fragile when I live inside of the giant, managed security-system known as Modernity. 1
‘Larping’ is nostalgia for the time before the end of history. 2
For a long, long time, I thought that a life without commitments was freedom, but I