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

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The Importance of Giving Up Illusions

religion is only the illusory son which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself. If you believe if you could find that absolute knowledge and take that second bite of the fruit of the tree of knowledge then you could get back into the garden  that's the nostic mission. I'm paraphrasing Mark Stone there is no god to ameliorate this problem we have to do it ourselves. We have to give up the conditions that we live in transform the world so that we are out of conditions that require illusions in the first place, thus demystify reality. A time magazine cover from about two years ago shows a mannequin plugged

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