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He has lost his mind

He has lost his mind

A parable about progress

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Sep 08, 2020
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Last summer, I discovered a short piece of creative writing on “Progress” by Hannah Arendt. In the undated parable she reimagines Walter Benjamin’s “Angelus Novus” fragment from the Theses on the Phi…

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