Quote of the Day

[Dave Monroe]

"A point of agreement among contemporary political thinkers of the
most diverse approaches ... is that the means by which society
controls its subjects are ever more difficult to perceive, and that
the possibilities for change ever more difficult to identify.   To
follow a vocation at once philosophical and political is ... to act
and think on the basis of something we all know: that things in our
world not only can but should be different."

--Leland de la Durantaye, Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009)

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16082

Cf., e.g., ...

"... how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for
diversity?" (Lot 49)

"Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the
singular point she jumped the wrong way from?" (GR)

"Does Britannia, when it sleeps, dream? Is America her dream? [...]
serving as a very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive  Hopes, for all that may
yet be true ..." (M&D)