Saturday, 8 October 2022

Sontag

“No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain”.


“One person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”


“ It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration. ”

Susan Sontag

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