The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Attributed to Gramsci Today it’s time to talk about the monsters. As I see it, individual humans aren’t inherently good or bad. People are just people, with complex inner lives and motivations and impulses, who do […]
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