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“Genuineness is nothing other than a defiant and obstinate insistence on the monadological form which social oppression imposes on man. Anything that does not wish to wither should rather take on itself the stigma of the inauthentic. For it lives on the mimetic heritage. The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.”

Frankly, his sentences and ideas are cumbersome and bogged down by his bleak outlook. There’s a lot to glean from this text because he’s reflecting on capitalism and fascism while exiled in America and he has some real insights. But also, a lot of meandering thoughts. I get this text is more of a diary style. +I’m reading it as punishment whenever I doomscroll too much. And maybe he’s too smart for me.