ContreAir's channel

A lot of film, some music, and some philosophy - and philosophy, more than a moral opinion on life or an academic discipline, is a way of life, a continuous invitation to think instead of just take at face value and believe - a life that is open for everybody who isn't braindead.

Thinking means doubting, allowing new data & experiences to change your mind.

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous." - Hannah Arendt

At best, you will be abused for it by those who merely want to improve themselves, no matter how hard they shout it otherwise - but I wear the SNAKE AROUND MY NECK with great pride, I'm not the first, nor the last, nor the only one - "Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment." (Niccolo Machiavelli)

"We cannot trample upon their rights, without endangering our own; and no man who will take liberty from another, is great enough to enjoy liberty himself." - R.G. Ingersoll

"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being." - Hannah Arendt

"[...] for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse. They held that only the constant interchange of talk united citizens in a polis. [...] This converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend's presence, is concerned with the common world, which remains 'inhuman' in a very literal sense unless it is constantly talked about by human beings. For the world is not humane just because it is made by human beings, and it does not become humane just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has become the object of discourse. [...] We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human." - Hannah Arendt

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