In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.