Monday, December 30, 2024

You have to be doing something

Film maker and author Bob Quinn quotes Antonio Francesco Gramsci. Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist and politician. He was a critic of Benito Mussolini and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party.

The quote goes: ‘Pessimism of the intellect - optimism of the will’. Quinn says this means that ‘although doing anything about anything may be futile, you have to be doing something.

Puzzling.

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