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the true ugliness on the inside

You saw a look of sadness and yearning in Samuel’s face when he had subsided from one of his misanthropic tirades—there was no limit to the scorn he heaped on the intellectual pretensions of others—and it put you on guard against him. What you sensed about him was that his abiding rage was closely …

—p.205 Happiness: Ten Years of n+1 The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (190) by Wesley Yang
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binding people into imagined collectivities

[...] We know, in short, identity politics, which, when it isn’t acting as a violent outlet for the narcissism of the age, can serve as its antidote, binding people into imagined collectivities capable of taking action to secure their interests and assert their personhood.

—p.202 The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (190) by Wesley Yang
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I also had a bad personality project/panopticon

Not that I was myself homosexual. True, my heterosexuality was notional. I wasn’t much to look at (skinny, acne-prone, brace-faced, bespectacled, and Asian), and inasmuch as I was ugly, I also had a bad personality. While Ethan was easing himself into same-sex experimentation, I was learning about …

—p.192 The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (190) by Wesley Yang
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markets fail to account for ecological costs inspo/anti-capitalism

The most powerful and cogent critique that can currently be leveled against our mode of capitalism is that markets fail to account for ecological costs. In a crowded world of finite size, our political economy values only acceleration and expansion. Scarce natural resources like clean air and water…

—p.151 An Interruption (140) by Chad Harbach
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a literary/political/intellectual left inspo/anti-capitalism

If such a thing as a literary/political/intellectual left exists, it is defined by its capacity for imaginative and sympathetic reach—by its willingness to surmount barriers of difference (class, distance, nationality) and agitate for a more equitable distribution of the goods and goodnesses that m…

—p.150 An Interruption (140) by Chad Harbach