Brecht broke the illusion so the audience would think. A century later the seams of everything are showing, the lamps hang in plain view, and nothing has changed. What did we…
Spinoza reduced good and evil to whatever increases or diminishes our power of acting. He could not have foreseen institutions whose own persistence runs on the confusion of…
Tocqueville named a power that would spare us the trouble of thinking and the pain of living, and every honest reader must admit that this is something we want.
