Reading: Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell 📚

Meanwhile, back in 1941…

Mankind cannot accept the ultimate triumph of evil, untruth, and violence—it simply cannot live with them. The world resulting from a Hitler victory would be not only a world of universal slavery, but also a world of absolute cynicism, a world which would find it impossible to believe in the higher and better in man any longer., a world which would belong completely to evil and be subject to evil. The revolt of humanity against a Hitler world filled with the utmost despair of spirit and good—this revolt is the most certain of certainties. — Thomas Mann