5 Teaser | Beauvoir: Existentialism and Liberation
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Inability to Feel Excitement and Joy About Something Going On
i get the sense that they would feel utterly lostke if good things started happening. They need this apocalyptic trajectory, and they're fused to it, assimilated with it. The inability to kind of experience joy, ind an optimism, and like, social movement is a big part of their problem. And i love the example she gives of baudelaire. Rache says, it was necessary for him, an, is going to quote this for second, says, It was necessary for his universe which he rejected continue in order for him to detest it and scoff at it. That's how i think about people on the far left who are just never able to be happy
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