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“As long as he denies his own agency, real change is unlikely because his attention will be directed toward changing his environment rather than himself.”
― The Gift of Therapy
― The Gift of Therapy
“The flower replied: You fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, and not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.”
― The Schopenhauer Cure
― The Schopenhauer Cure
“It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are the product of democratic will. And so to challenge the police is to challenge the American people who send them into the ghettos armed with the same self-generated fears that compelled the people who think they are white to flee the cities and into the Dream. The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“The problem with the police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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