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“Our civilization with its demand for obedience is at the root of self-hatred; here lies the source of our malaise and unhappiness. Whenever we avoid facing truth for the sake of those ideologies that sustain our power-based culture, unhappiness will be a constant feature in our lives, no matter what the economic or political character of a given society may be.”
― Arno Gruen, The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness