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Marx’s Ontology of Man and the Telos of History | James Lindsay

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The Limits of Self-Consciousness

Reality oppresses you your twig and berries are a problem the physical limitations of your body are a problem in queer theory. Everything else is false consciousness is bad activism that's informed by the theory putting that into practice is good reflection on the theory to reevaluate and inform your next bit of activism is also good liberation from all constraints upon your subjective range is good so when you hear them talk about liberation what are they being wanting to be liberated from? The answer is reality itself I actually mean it they say it's liberation from all oppression but reality oppresses you.

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