What tanning is to West Coast socialites, smoking is to East Coast intellectuals.
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Social Democracy thought fit to assign to the working class the role of the redeemer of future generations, in this way cutting the sinews of its greatest strength. This training made the working class forget both its hatred and its spirit of sacrifice, for both are nourished by the image of enslaved ancestors rather than that of liberated grandchildren.
— Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
So you started smoking now?
I quit, which was far harder to do than I expected when I was taking up the habit.
So, I’ve been meaning to ask you, did you know the guy who was actually a military contractor who had infiltrated Seattle area activist groups?