"Kayano Iguchi: Father, If I learn to do needlework someday I can make kimonos. But what good will book learning ever do me? Seibei Iguchi: Well, it probably won't ever be as useful as needlework. But you know, book learning gives you the power to think. However the world might change, if you have the … Continue reading Dialogue from “The Twilight Samurai”
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Is This Fascism?
"'You submit to tyranny,' Snyder writes, 'when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.'" —Snyder, Timothy. "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century" quoted in Gumbel, Andrew. "Is This Fascism?" Los Angeles Review of Books. July 24, 2017. Interesting discussion throughout regarding the Trump presidency. … Continue reading Is This Fascism?
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