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The Gnostic Parasite | James Lindsay

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The Positive Transcendence of Private Life

In the Hermetic religion, which we haven't talked about a ton yet, the goal is actually to obliterate your sense of individuality and selfhood. In order to understand what Hegel calls philosophy, you have to destroy yourself completely. That makes you the philosopher or a philosopher king, somebody worthy of rule because you have the true wisdom. Marx describes this a little bit differently. He says that the point of transcending private property is to return to what man really is,. A being that lives for his entire species.

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