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The Age of Jackson
Lately, I’ve been pondering this quote from Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”:
The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses […]
“The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.”
Supreme Court Justice Kennedy during oral arguments yesterday on the Second Amendment:
“It had nothing to do with the concern of the remote settler to defend himself and his family against hostile Indian tribes and outlaws, wolves and bears and grizzlies and things like that?”
Also yesterday, a more perfect union.
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