The eclipse of traditional parties has not led to the withering of political activity, however. On the contrary, it has gone hand in hand with much greater politicization. In this decade, politics seems to be everywhere, all at once.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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We’re consumers. We are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don’t concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy’s name on my underwear.
~ Tyler Durden
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.
~ William Gibson
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the “Make America Healthy Again” moment is in some ways just another step in the long retreat of the civic trust and communitarian spirit that have enabled America’s disease-fighting efforts. If this retreat continues, the public-health era—the century-long period of unprecedented epidemiological safety that has been the foundation for so many other breakthroughs—will come to an end. And that end will have dire consequences for this republic and its future.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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It is very important to grasp that Level 5 leadership is not just about humility and modesty. It is equally about ferocious resolve, an almost stoic determination to do whatever needs to be done to make the company great.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
The modern mass party reached its apogee in the middle of the 20th century. Yet it was most memorably portrayed in the interwar period, the era of continental fascism, when hundreds of thousands of Europeans became far-right partisans and paramilitary violence spilled into the continent’s streets.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The “global economy” is a place where common people have no leverage. Parties of the left lost sight of such problems after the 1970s, Wolfgang Streeck notes. They allowed their old structure, oriented around industrial workers and primarily concerned with workers’ rights and living standards, to be infiltrated and overthrown by intellectuals, who were primarily concerned with promoting systems of values, such as human rights and lately the set of principles known as wokeism.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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