Last year at Davos, a Dutch historian caused a stir by daring to talk about tax evasion by the ultra-wealthy. "I mean, it feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one is allowed to speak about water," he said.— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) January 20, 2020
This year, he wasn't invited back.https://t.co/3GKI5XMUCX
The metaphysical implications are...curious. Then again, institutions are like people: they tend to become, more and more openly, what they started out to be.
When I read your title the first thing that came to mind was the thing Harry Potter saw under the bench during his near death experience, what one assumes is the fragment of Voldemort's soul that died when he killed Harry.
ReplyDeleteNope, world gained, soul lost. Maybe it's lying in the dust under a bench in the tunnel people talk about going through.