"The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books (...) You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel."
- Slavoj Žižek
I love that we’re the new Rome. Peace with Persia in the afternoon and a gladiator fight in the evening, all on the Emperor’s birthday. Another 1,000 years.