Thursday, September 25, 2008

aphorism 2

History is when huge, stupid, and easily preventable things are done to you without your consent. It reminds you how little agency you have. Except in those rare sweet moments when you rise up in anger: and so the only way you can effect even a little change is in sacrificing your agency to a mob.

[Midnight, after Ara and I (with much work) finally started to parse and understand the financial crisis (and couldn't help but also think of our experience seven Septembers ago)]

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