Amazing times. One for you and @gregolear.bsky.social that I’d love to break out & read again. “Lotte in Weimar” (Some awesome quotes here, reflecting on Goethe:) ‘To work for the love of work is aristocratic, the aristocrat is an amateur…’ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_i...

From over on the dark site… I posted this a few years back. I still remember when I first ran across this in college. That quote from above starts in the middle of the 2nd page here. I still find it fascinating… “I must be a dilettante!” x.com/laney502/sta...

The Olympic Games are a sinister capitalist-fascist farce, at the opening of these 1936 games sponsored by Coca-Cola, Hitler had already liquidated his opponents, everyone knew it but they all came to rejoice in a so-called peaceful struggle between free and democratic nations...

What irony, what cynicism! Comparable to the current situation in #Gaza where Israel is committing #genocide with the active support of Western democracies...🤢🤮