Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in action, can avoid committing murder.  We can only act in terms of our own time, among the people who surround us.  We shall know nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fellow men, or the right to let them be killed.  In that every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether or why we have the right to kill.
✖ Via The Rebel. An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus, tr. by Anthony Bower, “Introduction” (L’Homme révolté, Gallimard, Paris, 1951, p. 14).

An electronic version of this English translation can be found over at Radical eBook Archive (along with many others).

• Aug 30, 2010 link notes tagged: art  book  essay  author  philosophy  modernity  revolution  murder  innocence  Camus 

America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can’t ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can’t lose what you lacked at conception.
✖ Via American Tabloid by James Ellroy, New York: Ivy Books, 1995, p. 1

• Aug 05, 2010 link notes tagged: communication  art  novel  author  America  history  community  lost  lack  missing  origin  Eden  innocence  fall  grace  Bible  mythology  foundation  nation  politic  Leviathan  Ellroy  representation 

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