What Now with Cornel West
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
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🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Dan interviews Cornel West on how to think about and act upon the world that this week presented to us.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, it's something I was just reading the night before last, the election night, I decided to read Dostoevsky. |
| 0:07.1 | You remember notes from the underground, 1864, spiteful man, sickly man, and so on. |
| 0:13.0 | And then at the very end, man, the cat, I can even read it to you, man. |
| 0:17.8 | This is how the cat goes off. |
| 0:20.5 | This is how he ends the whole thing. |
| 0:22.6 | He says, he says, inertia on nature. |
| 0:27.6 | Men, but people on earth are alone. |
| 0:30.6 | That's the calamity of it. |
| 0:32.6 | Is anyone really alive? |
| 0:35.6 | Shouts the old Russian hero? No one responds. I'm no epic hero but I too shout and no |
| 0:42.2 | one responds they say the sun animates the dead universe the sun will rise and look at it is it not |
| 0:48.4 | a corpse everything is dead and corpses are everywhere Only people exist and around them is silence. |
| 0:56.9 | That is what the earth is. |
| 0:59.5 | People love one another. |
| 1:02.8 | Who said that? |
| 1:04.6 | Whose behest is that? |
| 1:06.5 | The pendulum ticks on, insensible, horrible. |
| 1:09.4 | It's two o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:12.7 | Her shoes are standing by her little bed as if they expected her no seriously when they take her away tomorrow what on earth am i going to do |
| 1:23.0 | that's how it ends it me body right on the bed he ends it with man, with my body right on the day. |
| 1:29.3 | He ends it with the question. What am I going to do? |
| 1:31.3 | What am I going to do? |
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