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"'Het is niks voor jou om troebel te zijn,' zegt hij dan. 'Zodra jij met zulke formuleringen aankomt weet ik dat je vooral iets niet wilt zeggen.'

Toch is het niet onwaar, het is hoogstens nog niet waar genoeg."
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Theodor W. Adorno
“Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.”
Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Samuel Beckett
“Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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Samuel Beckett
“My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.”
Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Barbara J. Fields
“Ideology is best understood as the descriptive vocabulary of day-to-day existence through which people make rough sense of the social reality that they live and create from day to day. It is the language of consciousness that suits the particular way in which people deal with their fellows. It is the interpretation in thought of the social relations through which they constantly create and re­create their collective being, in all the varied forms their collective being may assume: family, clan, tribe, nation, class, party, busi­ness enterprise, church, army, club, and so on. As such, ideologies are not delusions but real, as real as the social relations for which they stand.

Ideologies are real, but it does not follow that they are scientifi­cally accurate, or that they provide an analysis of social relations that would make sense to anyone who does not take ritual part in those social relations. Some societies (including colonial New England) have explained troublesome relations between people as witchcraft and possession by the devil. The explanation makes sense to those whose daily lives produce and reproduce witchcraft, nor can any amount of rational "evidence" disprove it.”
Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Karl Polanyi
“In reality, the part played by fascism was determined by one factor: the condition of the market system.

During the period 1917-23 governments occasionally sought fascist help to restore law and order: no more was needed to set the market system going. Fascism remained undeveloped.

In the period 1924-29, when the restoration of the market system seemed ensured, fascism faded out as a political force altogether.

After 1930 market economy was in a general crisis. Within a few years fascism was a world power.”
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

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