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Sunk-cost fallacy-ing this shit so hard. I'm not convinced I'm gonna get anything more out of it but I've sunk so much effort in. His thesis is compelling. His elaborations? Slow, divergent, repetitive. It's very beautiful at times tbf.

I am deeply lost he’s just babbling

‘It is thus decreed by the supreme court: in our time, all that is required to be a religion is for a business to claim that it is one… Jesus himself would not have been able to sue for recognition… he did not know the word 'religion'. Nor… the concept of human rights… least of all the inviolable right of modern people to the free cultivation of illusions.‘ 🫢

Life is dynamic, stasis is reactionary. A great modern paradox is the idea that liberty means being free to remain stuck inside your most debilitating and harmful behaviors because anything else is taken as authoritarianism. The post religious truth is the drive to become sovereign over the domain of your own body. I take Rilke’s line to be akin to Lynch’s statement: Fix your heart or die.