[b]Robert Musil
… for the modern soul, for which it is mere child’s play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner. [/b]
Next up: the postmodern soul.
… we engage in politics because we don’t know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don’t live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others.
You know, in a roundabout way.
‘True’ and ‘false’ are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision.
Unless, of course, they mean it.
Life is to blame for everything.
If only so far.
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
So, don’t be fooled. By yours, for example.
…there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.
My guess: for better or worse.