“The only pathological feature is Zeno’s obsession with smoking, his passion to stop doing it.” https://t.co/qxLhDQdnde

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what he feared in fearing death was the negative power of his own Self

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The only way to really beat Trump is to radically rethink what does the left mean today. Otherwise he’ll be getting ordinary people’s votes.

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Criticizing Trump is just symptomatic healing. Trump is an effect of the failure of the liberal-left. Everybody knows this now.

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It’s nice to make fun of him, but you laugh at him & he wins. There is something terribly wrong with playing this game of..making fun of him

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the “when they go low, we go high” strategy didn’t actually work for Democrats against Donald Trump in 2016.

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If a guy talks like a jerk…ignore him. …That’s the..violence I would call for. Not physical violence. …Symbolic violence can be worse

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disenchantment of our actual social world accounts for the fascination exerted by cyber- space:

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Trump made his real hair look like a wig…trying to sell us..his own vulgar reality as a beautiful dream.

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private disobedience coupled with public obedience is precisely the way the system functioned

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The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions but how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy

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that’s the idea, to split it into two. I put down notes, … then … I edit it. Writing disappears.

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perverse logic: the shift from Bouyeri’s readiness to die for the truth to his readiness to die as direct proof of his truthfulness.

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while we have no direct access to the… Real, we also cannot get rid of it

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shared obscene jokes functioned not as …excluding the others… but as..means of their inclusion, of establishing a minimal symbolic pact

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The death drive …stands simultaneously for life that persists …and for the endeavor to end up this very life-beyond-death.

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It is easy to posit struggle as “father of all” and then elevate this struggle itself into a higher harmony, in the sense that Being becomes the hidden concord of the struggling poles, like a cosmic music in which the opposites harmoniously echo each other.

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Identity itself emerges through struggle, for stable identity is something that must be gained through an ordeal—even “class struggle” is already present here, in the guise of the war which “makes slaves on the one hand, the free on the other.”

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Stuckness is not just a consequence..of our inability to grasp pure Being from our partial perspective (if it were, the solution would lie in a kind of Oriental…immersion in the primordial Void); stuckness bears witness to a strife at the heart of Being. https://t.co/BebiT8Us5l

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When am I really alive? Precisely when I enact the “undead” drive in me, the “too-much-ness” of life. And I reach this point when I no longer act directly, but when “it” ( es )—whose Christian name is the Holy Spirit—acts through me. At this point, I reach the Absolute.

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the “human animal” is disrupted by the violent intrusion of a..meta-physical “immortal” dimension, psychoanalysis identifies this dimension as that of..sexuality..as opposed to the animal instinct while Christianity sees in sex..the..force which drags humans towards animality

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That is my fear, as if I am nothing who…has to be hyperactive all the time, just to fascinate people enough so that they don’t notice

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when we use certain notions, when we do certain acts, and so on, what is the implicit horizon of understanding?

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This, and only this, is the way to show a true respect for Muslims: to treat them as serious adults responsible for their beliefs.

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Muslims’ allies are not who first published the caricatures for shock value but those who in support of freedom of expression reprinted them

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Hegel’s..stance..on objective reality is…letting-it-be: purified of pathological particularity, the universal subject is certain of itself

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the true meaning of the subject’s words or deeds-their reason-is disclosed by their actual consequences

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the ideological subject is unable to grasp how his entire identity hinges on what he perceives as the disturbing obstacle.

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taking of sides has to rely on the necessary illusion that, once the enemy is annihilated, I will achieve the full realization of my being.

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the struggling subject needs the figure of the enemy to sustain the illusion of his..consistency, his..identity hinges on opposing the enemy

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Hegel here celebrates labor:…labor forces me…to alienate myself from my natural Self…into the universal Self

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