Calla Reviews (كالا)

“Every last one of us would now say to ourselves, I would never have attended such an event, I would never have attended a lynching. I would never have stood by, much less cheered, as a fellow human was dismembered and then set on fire here in America. And yet tens of thousands of everyday humans did just that in the lifetime of the oldest among us in Germany, in India, in the American South. This level of cold-hearted disconnection did not happen overnight. It built up over generations of insecurities and resentments.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“While white immigrants stand to gain status by becoming ‘Americans,’ ” wrote the sociologist Philip Kasinitz, “by assimilating into the higher status group—black immigrants may actually lose social status if they lose their cultural distinctiveness.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Its job, for the first time, would be to actually figure out what makes you happy, and to give it to you—instead of figuring out what makes advertisers happy, and how they can manipulate you to give it to them.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

“They explained that as work hours swell and swell, people get more distracted and less productive, and concluded: “These workloads are not sustainable.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again