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100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism

New Books in Buddhist Studies

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The Less Obvious Consequences of Social Commitment

This is a performative text. It's Mahayana in the sense that it valorizes like love. Don't they even quote Shanti Devan here? Oh, I do towards the end there. The less obvious consequences of making social commitment are that you start living as this subject in the world. You don't have like a special uniform or, you know, a hat, like a MAGA hat that announces it. But interact with one another and to model things for one other. So you're modeling things this way. That's why it says like it's something that's terrible, like in that terrifying sense.

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