I appreciate you Tom Nichols very much indeed. And it’s a fine article. I will ask: how did many of us sense in the early 80s upon Reagan’s election that a latent “fascism” came through the door? (He was not a “fascist.”) It was a vibe shift that was a shock. That never returned to a before. 1
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“I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love … [for] love exists without worrying [about] being loved.”
- Emmanuel Levinas
“You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.”
- Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being
“The only philosophy which would still be accountable in the face of despair, would be the attempt to consider all things, as they would be portrayed from the standpoint of redemption…all else exhausts …remains a piece of technics.”
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
“At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.”
“I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.”
-Yves Klein
“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.”
Caspar David Friedrich
Wonderful. Not sure it’s an either/or.
