“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.” SeemsLossThreatChecksTolerateCommodityAvailabilityImposition Book:Fado Source: Fado
“This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.” CountrySeemsNamesFictionGreaterIllusionAssumingExperimentsRejectedModernityApparitionsDevilish Book:Fado Source: Fado
“Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.” I CanSometimesSeemsTogetherLandStupidShapesThanksBordersShakesTerritoryAtlas Book:On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe Source: On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe
