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You are trying to get the right attitude towards some transcendent principle; in other words, you are operating within the language of good and evil, guilt and redemption. Agricultural religion (Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and so on) is implicitly hierarchical: there’s a top tier and a bottom one, and the very word hierarchy means the rule of the priests.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
We must understand the fatalistic submission of the UK’s population to austerity as the consequence of a deliberately cultivated depression.
Good for Nothing - Mark Fisher
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The sick person cannot remember everything of what is repressed in him, perhaps just the essentials, and thus does not acquire a conviction of the correctness of the construction communicated to him. He is rather compelled to repeat what has been repressed as a present experience, instead of remembering it,
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud and Tim Newcomb
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