Cultures come at us whole. That is the beauty and terror of them. We should study them because they’re beautiful, and instructive in the endless, necessary human lesson that Others exist—not because they can be disaggregated like albums on iTunes, with one song or another put on our own playlists.—Adam Gopnik, "Four Kinds of Opinion Pieces I Will Not Read," The New Yorker (May 20, 2015)
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
'Cultures come at us whole. That is the beauty and terror of them.'
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