Yep. That's long been the goal of alt-right actors; to turn the US into a white ethnostate. They didn't hide it, they didn't pretend otherwise, and millions voted for it.

Been sick now for 2 weeks straight. Every time I've gotten better for a day or so, I've taken a turn for the worse again, with new symptoms. This is pretty agonizing. /vent

Between the Shigatse earthquake in Tibet, and the wildfires destroying California, we all have been violently reminded of human fragility and finitude. But what a painful reminder it is.

The Plague by Albert Camus

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I keep thinking about teaching some selections from it to my undergrads. It's perhaps even more relevant now than it was back when it was written.

One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse

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Day 19
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Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer and Adorno

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Day 18
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The Marx-Engels Reader

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Caligula and 3 Other Plays by Albert Camus

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Day 16
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The Trial by Franz Kafka

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Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben

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Necropolitics by Achilles Mbembe

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The politics of being mortal by Alfred G. Killilea

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Ethics, by Spinoza

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The Racial Contract by Charles Mills (book cover).

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Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings book cover

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Book cover for Who is Jesus? by John Dominic Crossan & Richard G. Watts.

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There's a small recipe for a brine on the back involving soy sauce. I would advise against it ... I made it and it was far too salty.

Book cover for Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

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Book cover for Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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Book cover for The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

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It was the first of his books I read but definitely not the last book of his I've read! I only wish I discovered it when I was younger.

Book cover of Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Book cover for Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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Book cover for The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler

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Book cover of The Rebel by Albert Camus

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Fantastic album. Fantastic group.

Keep imagining better worlds.

As for this sparkling awareness which is called “mind, ”
Even though one says that it exists, it does not actually exist.

~ Padmasambhava

And the NYer in me wonders how we've strayed so far from all that is holy.