Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ...

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.