Apolitical Intellectuals

One day the apolitical intellectuals of my country will be interrogated by the simplest of our people. They will be asked what they did when their nation died out slowly, like a sweet fire small and alone. No one will ask them about their suits, their long siestas after lunch, nor about their sterile combat against nothing or their metaphysical manner of arriving at wealth. They won’t be interrogated on Greek mythology, nor about the self-loathing... Les mer