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These days, truth—which makes an appearance every now and then—seems unable to touch ground. It leaves no trace.
Goenawan Mohamad
December 7, 2020
I think this is why people speak about ‘post-truth’. Truth comes and goes quickly, blinking off and on, like a flashlight in the hand of a fugitive.
Yes, we are living in acceleration: eating, working, traveling, thinking, constantly speeding up. In rapid succession. Production, distribution, consumption whipped along by the fear of falling behind. T.S. Eliot was not wrong when he said this is the time of “The endless cycle of
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