Notebook
Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we will know everything the eighteenth century didn’t know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.
—Randall Jarrell
“Hate can be concealed in many ways. A lover of animals looks into eyes that want, eyes that are forever grateful for what they receive, eyes that can never judge. Such a person can ultimately be a sadist, a misanthrope, in that his perfect world is a world without other human beings. Everything that animals do is glorified precisely because it represents such an animal lover’s ideal for Others: consciousness without judgment.”
-Lewis Gordon
— Freddie · Jan 31, 02:53 AM · #