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Fear, the big-city revulsion, crowd and aroused horror in were those the who emotions first observed which
it. barely For Poe manages it has to something tame it. Later, barbaric; James discipline Ensor tirelessly
he liked confronted to put military its discipline groups in with his carnival its wildness;
just
and both got along splendid- ly—as the prototype mobs,
totalitarian states, in which the police make common of
cause the cluster with the of looters. symptoms Valéry, called who “civilization,” has a fine eye has for
characterized itant of the great one urban of the centers,” pertinent he facts. writes, “The“reverts
inhab-
to of a being state dependent of savagerythat on others, is, of which isolation. used The to be feeling
alive by need, is gradually blunted in the smooth kept
functioning ment of this of mechanism the social mechanism. eliminates certain Any improve-
of behavior and emo- tions.” Comfort isolates; modes
the other hand, it brings those enjoying it closer on to
mechanization.
ILLUMINATIONS: Essays and Reflections
“On Some Motifs in Baudelaire”
WLATER BENJAMIN
Translated by Harry Zohn
Preface by Leon Wieseltier
Edited by Hannah Arendt
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