The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises: A New Day
Not sure what the point of this article is. The logic of the argument seems to be that, because racism exists, democrats would be in better position had they NOT selected an African American as their presidential candidate. Assigning blame makes for really stupid politics; it's an even stupider basis for a political column, especially in the midst of a campaign.
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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.
—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope
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