“ Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat? ”
As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.
no one asks poor people if they want war.
