We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and... the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited.... It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own... natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nostalgia is one of the great enemies of clear thinking about the family. The disruption of families in the nineteenth century thr...ough death, separation, and other convulsions of an industrializing economy was much more catastrophic than we imagine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »