A fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, …
“The internet’s purpose is to ratify knowledge through the accumulation and manipulation of ever-expanding data,” he wrote, but in this way “information threatens to overwhelm wisdom,” leaving no room for the operation of human consciousness and its associated qualities of subjectivity, agency, responsibility, introspection, and freedom.
— The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen (20%)