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Europe Has the Shape of My Brain
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The important thing was to get away from what was emblematic of Europe at the time: the dull, mechanistic, and conformist rationality of its ruling classes. knew that the Nazi creed would lead “logically” to the Holocaust and that the Soviet version of “social harmony” would provide the foundation f
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  • The important thing was to get away from what was emblematic of Europe at the time: the dull, mechanistic, and conformist rationality of its ruling classes.
  • knew that the Nazi creed would lead “logically” to the Holocaust and that the Soviet version of “social harmony” would provide the foundation for the East European terro
  • coldly scientific crimes would soon become accepted practice under the cover of “social engineering” and in the name of “advancing human wellbeing,” crimes that entailed experimenting with the real, living bodies of individuals as well as with huge, terrorized groups of people
  • yet to overcome the consequences.
  • Still, I doubt that this would truly be enough to return our right to celebrate our belonging to Europe.

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