Re:When James Baldwin wrote about the Atlanta child murders
by scandox on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:13PM
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One of my favourite quotes from The Evidence of Things Not Seen:
"The dream of safety can reach culmination or climax only in the nightmare orgasm of genocide."
There's a preamble to it, but it's an incredibly powerful idea to me. We live in a radically unsafe universe and our death is inevitable. Safety is a delusion.
"The dream of safety can reach culmination or climax only in the nightmare orgasm of genocide."
There's a preamble to it, but it's an incredibly powerful idea to me. We live in a radically unsafe universe and our death is inevitable. Safety is a delusion.