How would our political rhetoric (and personal or “private” behavior) change if we held to the belief that we have a responsibility for everyone and everything?
Barry Malzberg (1939-2024)
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American author Barry N. Malzberg has passed away; see, for example,
the report at Locus.
Only three of his books are under review at the *c...
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Way to drop Fyodor into the mix!
Our political culture, indeed, the opposite of the guilt-bearing subjectivity of Zosima and Christianity. For a "Christian" nation--if one accepts the premise--it's all rather strange.
On the other hand, to say we're all guilty implies that every act of humanity involves our complicity, and that too is very strange indeed.
A dose of humility and responsibility would go a long way.
Happy New Year, Absinthe.
Happy New Year, Philip. I think one could write a book titled "All I Ever Needed to Learn I Learned From Reading Dostoevsky"!
Good work finding the Kurtz quote! You're spot on in my view, and so was Father Z. (Google took me to your blog as I checked my recollection of the novel).
I must have read the Brothers K 5 times before I turned thirty, and I discovered 40 years later that my daughter did too.
Today I can begin to see that indeed "every act of humanity involves our complicity." And so here we are.
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