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Behavior which earns success or even just survival at work thus gives Rico little to offer in the way of a parental role model. In fact, for this modern couple, the problem is just the reverse: how can they protect family relations from succumbing to the short-term behavior, the meeting mind-set, and above all the weakness of loyalty and commitment which mark the modern workplace?
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, beginning ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’, is clearly a rumination about suicide; though ‘To be or not to be’ is a question also about being born and a question no one can or will ever ask about being born (though we might note in passing, if we are looking for intimations, Hamlet’s reference to ‘the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns’; ourselves before birth being the undiscoverable country). To be or not to be is a more powerful but more puzzling or even intriguing question, as Cioran keeps insisting, if it is a question about being born.
The Life You Want
Adam Phillips
__How we distinguish between social roles and practical identities is an expression of how we distinguish between the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom.__ Under democratic socialism, the question of how to negotiate these distinctions is at the center of political deliberation.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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