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Addict in Recovery's avatar

Such beautiful prose: "So this is how we live, tricked and deluded, gamed and divided, mocked and derided, helpless and ashamed of our helplessness. This is how we live, cut to ribbons by fear and conflict, double-bound by contradictory illusions, under the dialectical sword. This is the system we live under, as brutal and bizarre as anything in the long history of brutal and bizarre human cultures to which this planet has been host."

The entire blog is excellent and real treat to read but the above particularly resonated with me. Thank you.

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THE LETHAL TEXT's avatar

And thank YOU, sir, for this very generous comment. (And for reminding me of that passage... The Bataclan... theatre studies...)

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Catherine's avatar

Wonderful article again Paul. There is a LOT of research going on here, congratulations on your clarity and skill mate. Excellent stuff deserving of a very wide audience.

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THE LETHAL TEXT's avatar

Thanks, Catherine, yeah we forgot about terrorism for a while there, didn't we? (And I keep forgetting to be terrified.)

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