Philip Gourevitch Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. January 1, 1961
Birthday: January 1
The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.
topic: Political, Insane, Information, Massacres, Monstrous, Political Violence, Generic
