Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

[...] The possibility of acquiring money and property, or even the chance of making a start for it, is much more limited for most people today than it was rightly or wrongly supposed to be during the heyday of classical liberalism. [...] If one cannot gain property as of old, it is suggestively implied that by clever disposition of what one has, by planning and scheduling in a manner appealing anyway to compulsive persons, the same success may be achieved that is now denied to expansive business enterprise. Making charts, timetables, schedules, and similar formalistic ventures severe as substitutes for the actual money making. [...]

constant reference to property matters despite most readers not owning property, some sort of aspirational role? uniquely american, temporarily embarrassed millionaires, they feel like it speaks to them because they will own property one day

—p.115 The Stars Down to Earth: The Los Angeles Times Astrology Column (46) by Theodor W. Adorno 6 years, 2 months ago