Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror with Louis Betty
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How Do Welbeck's Worlds Hold Together?
i think underlying these worlds is eminent there general critique of secular humanism, or liberalism. The world that we spun out of the enlightenment that insists on the individual. So a in the sense itin all his works, a posit that that world viewas a problem, or as something that we're trying to escape, but can't,. i think th they hold together. They hold together in a sort of negative sense, as reacting to a. I guess what's the word to put, insolubility – insolvency — of that pretence to live for ourselves without god.
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