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"All our choices and our options have blinded us to the essential fact that we have lost the capacity to experience things deeply. We instead think of ourselves as consumers-as subjects who remain fundamentally indifferent to what is selected and consumed, who remain unaffected by the content. Originally it was not so. Experiences were transformative. We did not consume them; they consumed us."

It is arbitrary to prefer another to yourself for no other reason than that the other is not you; it is the flip side of egoism, which arbitrarily prefers yourself. Scheler writes, 'If I myself am not worthy of love, why should the 'other' be? As if he were not also an 'I'-for himself, and I 'another'-for him!' To prefer the other for being other is to express an aversion to oneself"