For millennia, man remained, according to Aristotle, living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question.
Michel Foucault
"To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places...To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away and never, never, to forget." ~ Arundhati Roy
It is a fascinating historical pivot: the Mohists took a purely abstract moral concept— universal love and anti-aggression —and realized i...
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