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Or reverence for self-sacrifice. The feeling that the most noble thing someone can do is sacrifice their life in service of Us as a whole or in order to save another group member. And deep contempt for anyone who looks out for themselves in battle or behaves selfishly within the tribe.
Tim Urban • A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly,... See more
A quote from The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
What is the story you always tell about yourself? Can you tell it one last time?
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
In these conditions of ontological precarity, forgetting becomes an adaptive strategy.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn’t tell us the story of someone’s life.
Bettina Judd • On
It is a challenge to the rest of the world “to debase themselves in their turn, to deny their own values … to sacrifice everything by which a human being or a culture has some value in its own eyes.”
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Nietzsche, F. - El crepúsculo de los ídolos