Pakaks rimties - laikas pašmaikštauti. Leonidas Donskis siūlo savo "Mažąjį akademinį žodynėlį". (Tęsti...)

In his book of correspondence with the noted French writer Michel Houellebecq, Public Enemies, the French journalist, activist and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy wrote on present Russia: “Not only does this Russia inspire no desire in me, it fills me with horror. I’d go so far as to say that it frightens me because I see in it a possible destiny for the late-capitalist societies. Once upon a time, during your postwar ‘glory days,’ the middle class was terrorized by being told that Brezhnev’s communism was not an archaism restricted to distant societies but rather a picture of our own future. We were wrong: it was not communism but postcommunism, Putinism, that may be the testing ground for our future.” (Tęsti...)

Ką reikia daryti šiandien, kad greitai išgarsėtum? Akivaizdu – būti auka. Arba viešinti savo privatų gyvenimą. Arba taip bijoti, kad savo baime užkrėstum kitus. Arba nekęsti – taip stipriai, kad visi patikėtų, jog tavo neapykantos objektas sugriovė visų laimę ir gyvenimą. (Tęsti...)