Experience and poverty

Author: Walter Benjamin
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: We have become impoverished. The human heritage has been handed over piece by piece by us, often pawned for only one percent of its value, just to exchange for the small copper coin of "reality." An economic crisis is about to arrive, followed by the shadow of the war to come. Persistence has become the affair of a few in power today, and they are no more humane than the common people. On the contrary, they are often more—far from being commendably—uncultured. So be it, if each individual can grant a little humanity to the masses, one day, the masses will repay it with interest.