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Kierkegaard on the Present (Passionless) Age

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Kikard's Reflection

Kikard: Levelling is basically this subsuming of the individual into the crowd. Envy wants to tear down the good to insure that other person doesn't enjoy the good. Reflection raises doubt, and doubt paralyzes and blocks our energies. It uproots what's grown organically in the stories we live by. We end up being unable to distinguish our fantasies from reality.

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