These days, many of us feel anxious, disoriented and uncertain about the ground we stand on. Carlos Alberto Sanchez @locoprof, professor of philosophy at San Jose State University, says Mexican philosophy has a concept to describe how we're all feeling: "zozobra". @CBCSunday pic.twitter.com/LMZksjo4Lk
— CBC Radio (@cbcradio) February 19, 2021
Another quotation
“People will talk,” he said. “Even if a man has been acquitted by a jury, they’ll talk."
— George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) February 13, 2021
Just a couple of quotations
What would George Orwell say today?
— @KHShan (@KHShan) February 10, 2021
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
~George Orwell, 1984
"Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. . . .The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) February 12, 2021
--President Abraham Lincoln to Congress, December 1862 pic.twitter.com/QBHHg03Pn0
You be the judge
Kellyanne Conway tells Bill Maher Americans 'better off' thanks to Trump https://t.co/Z2SLbX60Ob
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) January 16, 2021
4000 dying a day. Economy in tatters. International humiliation. A gutted government. A violent uprising.
— Dave Pell (@davepell) January 16, 2021
Trump drove the car off a cliff, handed the wheel to Biden and said, “OK, your turn to drive.”
100 hours left in the Trump presidency, and once again sitting at home due to deadly plague, insurrection, and subsequent military occupation of our capital... #cantmakeitup
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 16, 2021
Dickinson at year-end
"How sad it makes one feel to sit down quietly and think of the flight of the old year, and the unceremonious obtrusion of the new year upon our notice! How many things we have omitted to do which might have cheered a human heart, or whispered hope in the ear of the sorrowful..."
— Emily Dickinson (@E_Dickinson) December 31, 2020
Imitation
Since I've followed the story of the Utah monolith so carefully...
Ephemeral edible: gingerbread monolith appears on San Francisco hilltop, then collapses https://t.co/eIXLshQ4Fi
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) December 26, 2020
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