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Ep. 23 - Romanticism

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Romanticism and the Romantic Comedies

Why would the romantics be attracted to napoleon? You see, we have to be careful here. There's lots of good historians that say, maybe we only like napoleon because more time is passed. But why do they like him? Look what napoleon is doing by force of will. He is re structuring the world. He is painting his picture on to the world. Here is the isolated self pressing itself out on the world,. imagining the world into another shape and existence. And in that but it doesn't go away. We live with decadent romanticism. Romantic comedies are the quintessential form of pornography in which we indulge in decadENT romanticism.

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