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Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

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Brideshead Revisited

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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 (Penguin History of Britain)

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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

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It was a perfect title, in that it crystallized the article’s niggling mindlessness, its funereal parade of yawn-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon non-problems.

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Matthew’s Quotes

“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

tags: horror, lovecraftian, scifi

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“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

tags: antisemitism

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“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

tags: culture, desire, education, educational-philosophy, greed

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“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

tags: conservatism, individualism, liberalism, political-philosophy, progressivism, statism

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“Unlike the ancient Romans who, confident in their eternal city, could not imagine a condition after Rome, the rising barbarism within the city forces us now to consider the prospect that a better way awaits.”
― Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

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