28 | A Very Special Holiday Episode: Learning How to Give with Jacques Derrida
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There Really Forgiveness?
If there was really forgiveness, it would transfigure both the one forgiven, but also the one doing the forgiving. Our institutionaliation of gift giving in these christmas rituals is so perverse. This is why we have all anxieties. For instance, rond lake, how much is the right amount of money to spend on a gift? T because if it's too much, you're going to obligate them in some way. If it's too little, it shows how much you value them. Ra, which is to say that you will have been derelict in your duty till i appreciate properly,. And then the whole egmaritocratic logic of, like, the christmas in
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