(33) When he was pushed a few days later nonetheless to tell more about Abu Ahmad, Krayem responded: “From what the police told me, I understand that this Abu Ahmad would be the person who organized the Paris attacks. But I don’t know who he is.”(34) Pressed again during his ne...
I really am a true contrarian, as a friend once said of me, because this jars on me, I see the glare of cognitive dissonance like the sun on a dusty windshield, that these very achievements are precisely what we have congratulated ourselves and specifically our giant brains for. I know ...
I have a sense for these things, I have a sense for the thought behind the thought, where someone is coming from, and as a writer, I know that half the battle is always about what you don’t say. There’s a world of literature in the space between sticking to your point and flat...
So, for me, and I’m always willing to project it onto everybody else too, the shitty thing about this Deep Roots of War idea is that you know they’re saying “this is reality. This is the way it is, this is what we’re made of.” Like, “period. This is your hardware. You...