Maxioms by Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
What we need is to use what we have.
What we need is to use what we have.
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that read more
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.
