Sublime

The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.

a modern society in which the natural sciences and bureaucratic rationality had conspired to undermine confidence in religious values and traditional sources of meaning.

We’ve done it to each other with equal callousness in the wars and purges that are a constant feature of our history, not to mention the genocides and organised persecutions orchestrated by all those ruthless optimists with their perfect plans for our salvation.

In private, meanwhile, he filled notebooks with philosophical thoughts alternating with Nazi-flavoured anti-Semitic remarks. When these ‘Black Notebooks’ were published in 2014, they provided yet more confirmation of something already known: Heidegger was a Nazi, at least for a while, and not out of convenience but by conviction.

The dominant regime of political economy in the West since 1971, and particularly acute since 2009, has been built on a set of related economic fallacies: There are no adverse consequences to manipulating the price and supply of money; economic well-being can be measured by increases in flows of revenue rather than the growth rate of profit over

Some of the most recognizable evidential apologists of our time include John Warwick Montgomery

So to wish for an end to humanity so that the rest of nature can thrive—as do those deep greens who describe the human race as ‘a cancer on the planet’ or those in the Earth First! Journal writing under the pseudonym Miss Anthropy in the late 1980s and early 1990s that AIDS was an environmentalist’s dream come, applauding nature’s way of cleansing