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"“The basic spirit of Hitler’s National Socialism is exactly that of Chairman Chiang’s new cultural movements’ efforts to zhengqihuayi [standardize/homogenize/unify/make monolithic]” - Chen Lifu
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"“The basic spirit of Hitler’s National Socialism is exactly that of Chairman Chiang’s new cultural movements’ efforts to zhengqihuayi [standardize/homogenize/unify/make monolithic]” - Chen Lifu
Dude." — 13 hours, 27 min ago
“Of course, there is no 'going back' in general, but it is important to remember that global unsustainability is something very new and that for a wide variety of stable cultures, our planet was a tremendously big, rish, eminently hospitable, and benign world.”
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“The remedy (or psychotherapy) against sadness caused by the world's misery is to do something about it.”
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“All Hellenistic schools seem to define [wisdom] in approximately the same terms: first and foremost, as a state of perfect peace of mind. From this viewpoint, philosophy appears as a remedy for human worries, anguish, and misery brought about, for the Cynics, by social constraints and conventions; for the Epicureans, by the quest for false pleasures; for the Stoics, by the pursuit of pleasure and egoistic self-interest; and for the Skeptics, by false opinions. Whether or not they laid claim to the Socratic heritage, all Hellenistic philosophers agreed with Socrates that human beings are plunged in misery, anguish, and evil because they exist in ignorance. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgments with people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgments, and in this sense all these philosophies wanted to be therapeutic.”
― What Is Ancient Philosophy?
― What Is Ancient Philosophy?
“The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe. It is not an ever-present possibility but
what in each case is given. Thus hell is not
something that awaits us, but this life here and now.”
― The Arcades Project
what in each case is given. Thus hell is not
something that awaits us, but this life here and now.”
― The Arcades Project
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