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On the Incarnation
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Book cover for Myth and Meaning (Routledge Classics)
I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no ‘I’, no ‘me.’ Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The ...more
Matthew Lowery
This is basically the same view that Nietzsche and Deleuze took in a more overtly philosophical sense - man (or consciousness) is the 'aftereffect' produced by the inreplay of subterranean 'forces', of the interplay of desires and 'wills'. Interesting to hear him say this.
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Patrick J. Deneen
“Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individual and the abstraction of our membership in the state.”
Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

“It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending.”
qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

George Orwell
“These people always say (as Hitler says in Mein Kampf) that they started out with no anti-Jewish prejudice but were driven into their present position by mere observation of the facts. Yet one of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true.”
George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

Patrick J. Deneen
“One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of umpire and protector of individual liberty; it also takes on an active role 'liberating' individuals who, in the view of the state, are prevented from making wholly free choices as liberal agents.”
Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

T.S. Eliot
“People can be persuaded to desire almost anything, for a time, if they are constantly told that it is something to which they are entitled and which is unjustly withheld from them.”
T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

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