It was Saturday morning and I was having breakfast in the hotel restaurant, sitting in the corner with the view of two rooms. In the first, drunken man was barely standing, trying to steady his hand in Nazi salute, occasionally shouting “Heil Hitler!”. In the second, a man was swaying, unable to sit or stand, … [>>>>>>>]
First: There are awful films and there is Interstellar by Nolan brothers. Film where everything feels so profoundly wrong that I felt like watching an artefact from the alien culture. I soon remembered Erich Fromm and his book The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973) and his description of “necrophilous character”: Here we see the essential … [>>>>>>>]
This year, while on holiday, I managed to read a lot of books, all of them on kindle. I noticed some funny side effects: like wondering what happened to the character X and remembering that he belongs to the novel I read previously, etc. The recollection of the books I’ve read was much worse from … [>>>>>>>]