From Plato to Nietzsche
Far from ruining
democracy, the internet
helps it blossom into
what it is (that lunacy
of mob-rule, where
emotion-enslaved
dull minds
have as much say
as philosophers)
and so ruins our love
of democracy, showing us
that we loved but
a rose-colored idea.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)