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The retreat into subjective experience primes us for the politics of resentment, competitive grievance and weaponised victimhood.
The left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that
Ash Sarkar
Well, an ideology is a simplification of reality where the vast, seething, messy baroqueness of being is put through some kind of rasher of language and comes out grossly simplified. And because it’s grossly simplified it becomes like a kind of algebra of idiocy where, now, you can set up these little equations and they solve themselves, and you get a feeling of satisfaction from that.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
No one who hopes for improvement should fail to see and respect the signs that we may be approaching some sort of historical waterfall, past which we will not, by changing our minds, be able to change anything else. We know that at any time an ecological or a technological or a political event that we will have allowed may remove from us the power to make change and leave us with the mere necessity to submit to it.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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