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So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is in line with the narratives of the people around me, I can convince myself that my life is meaningful, and find happiness in that conviction. This is quite a depressing conclusion. Does happiness really depend on self-delusion?
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
As Noam Chomsky says, it is useful to distinguish between our visions (“the conception of a future society that animates what we actually do”) and our goals (“the choices and tasks that are within reach”).
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
If consciousness is indeed a product of our material and social relations, then we have to cede the notion that there is no neutral, nonpartisan, or nonideological form of consciousness. __What we think, how we think it, and how we communicate our thinking to others is all political because it is produced by experiences with the world.__
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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