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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.
Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.
Of course, I do everything for money.
I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.