The work's genius isn't that it shows suffering—it's that it shows how ordinary people become capable of murder through paperwork. The Metamorphosis operates as instruction manual for ordinary evil, and readers miss this because they're too busy feeling sorry for the bug. Gregor never stops being human. That's not ambiguity—it's the text's central fact. An … Continue reading Kafka’s Genocide Manual
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What Kind of Country Do We Want?
"The cult of cost/benefit—of the profit motive made granular, cellular—not only trivializes but also attacks whatever resists its terms. Classic American education is ill-suited to its purposes and is constantly under pressure to reform—that is, to embrace as its purpose the training of workers who will be competitive in the future global economy. What this … Continue reading What Kind of Country Do We Want?
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