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The Desire to Eliminate Suffering Generates More Sufferance
Suffering and joy are also sort of yin and yang, but it seems that all of this political project is about trying to eliminate any last trace of sadness. "It's even worse than futile, it actually generates more suffering," he says. Illich: We kind of live in an age where we want to pretend that it could make everything safe and eliminate any kind of pain or suffering.