Everyone is…saying…the emperor is naked (democracies…torturing…suspects…etc.), and…nobody seems to mind. The system just goes on…as if the emperor has his clothes on.

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a fetish..enables you to..participate in the..capitalist game while sustaining the perception that you are not really in it; that you are well aware of how worthless this spectacle is;..that what really matters to you is the peace of the inner Self

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Even if, in this way, we do not get what we wanted and/or expected, we none the less change the coordinates of what appears…as ‘possible’ and give birth to something genuinely new.” https://t.co/humdVPtvBZ

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I despise the kind of book that tells you … how to make yourself happy! The first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in.

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There is thus an interconnection between the rising anti-immigrant tide…and the ongoing financial crisis: clinging to ethnic identity serves as a protective shield against the traumatic fact [that] the true ‘foreign body’ which cannot be assimilated is…Capital itself.

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Fundamentalism is a reaction – a false, mystifying, reaction, of course – against a real flaw of liberalism

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Why is Christianity opposed to sexuality? Not because in sexuality our lower nature explodes, but because sexuality competes with pure spirituality as the primordial metaphysical activity.

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