E. M. Cioran

“Between serenity and blood, it is toward blood one finds it natural to incline. Murder supposes and crowns revolt: the man who is ignorant of the desire to kill may profess all the subversive opinions he likes, he will never be anything but a conformist.”

-- E. M. Cioran, “The Temptation to Exist”

Some people are more radical than others, I guess. It is not enough to interpret the world!

Oscar Wilde

“True friends stab you in the front.”

-- Oscar Wilde

Douthat on the Brexit-Trump Populist Reaction

Ross Douthat, conservative, has a nice column on the faux-cosmopolitanism of the liberal establishment that is tsk-tsking the Brexit vote and the rise of Donald Trump in America. It brings out why a lot of liberals aren't extremely happy with the status quo establishment either. The establishment has its own racism and classism that does not disappear just because it is so very politically correct.

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