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The cult of Apollo should not be viewed as merely a curious institution of that period. It was on the one side the key monetarist financial institution of that period. On the other side it deployed two cults as covers for its intelligence
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“To be intelligent is to understand our position on this earth. To be intelligent is to seek to transform the meaning of daily life for ourselves. All this opens on to higher meaning.”
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“As the anger, or the fear, within a personality builds, the world in which it lives increasingly reflects the anger, or the fear, that it must heal, so that eventually, ultimately, the personality will see that it is creating its own experiences and perceptions, that its righteous anger or justifiable fear originates within itself, and therefore can be replaced by other perceptions and experiences only through the force of its own being.”
― The Seat of the Soul
― The Seat of the Soul
“This is what intelligence means in the Work—the position of a thing in the Scale of Being, and the influences to which it is open”
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“Es más fácil escribir una columna de periódico criticando los excesos neoliberales que cambiar los planes de estudios de las facultades de economía, grandes responsables de sembrar precisamente el delirio neoliberal (no hay noticia de cambios que modulen la hegemonía teórica neoliberal en ningún país del mundo).”
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
“Once the web has lost its charm, its terms lose theirs; suddenly they seem contingent and open to revision. For those epi-predators who work with the signifiers themselves rather than the things they supposedly signify, language is not a medium that helps us see the true, the real, the natural. Language is a tool assembled by creatures with “no way” trying to make a world that will satisfy their needs; it is a tool those same creatures can disassemble if it fails them.”
― Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
― Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
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