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- Simone Weil rejects the building blocks of modern life, such as democracy and personal identity, and offers a radical alternative.
- Weil denounces political parties and argues for the abolition of institutions, like science and the Catholic Church, that corrupt truth.
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Simone Weil's Contempt for Intellectuals
Simone Weil, a contemporary writer, shares similarities with George Orwell. Both had contempt for intellectuals who did not act on their political views. Weil's own experience led her to seek poverty and deprivation to understand it firsthand. She worked in a factory despite not being suited for manual labor, and later volunteered for the Spanish Civil War despite not being cut out to be a soldier. She rejected the idea of majority opinion and believed in standing up to democratic opinion. Weil also embraced mysticism but refused to join any institutional form, including the Catholic Church, as she believed that they compromised the truth.
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