A Riff on Abstraction
By Richard Katrovas
Featured in New Lyre Spring 2021
A Riff on Abstraction
Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete.
—Sartre
As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though
I cannot help but wonder if a system,
constructed for the purpose of control,
contrasting with all systems found in nature,
is doomed to doom all that it must co…
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