Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil,…

Susan Sontag
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, p.74, Penguin UK
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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. ✨ Susan Sontag (1983). A Susan Sontag reader, Vintage
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, p.74, Penguin UK

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