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“globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness. Or the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land different from yours in terms of being able to oppose the sense of meaninglessness, the loss of criteria and, ultimately, moral blindness and the loss of sensitivity.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
“We live with a few familiar ideas. Two or three. We polish and transform them according to the societies and the men we happen to meet.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“Robbing humans of their faces and individuality is no less a form of evil than diminishing their dignity or looking for threats primarily among those who have immigrated or harbour different religious beliefs.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
“The updated version of Descartes’s Cogito is ‘I am seen, therefore I am’ – and that the more people who see me, the more I am…”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
“The relations individuals enter into with other individuals nowadays have been described as ‘pure’ – meaning ‘no strings attached’, no unconditional obligations assumed and so no predetermination, and therefore no mortgaging, of the future. The sole foundation and only reason for the relationship to continue is, it has been said, the amount of mutual satisfaction drawn from it.”
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
― Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
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