What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright… Haven’t you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you’ve had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?
“The direction has not been to stop but to accelerate change. The Market has become a global power — that is an unprecedented transformation. The “great history” has been an infamous history of oppression — domestic and foreign — and one ethnic and nationalist conflict after another. Advances of a democratic nature — so threatening to the market — are finite compared to the ecological and social ravages so evident since the Industrial Revolution.”
Rikki Ducornet