Sublime

But the psychological parasite of the ideal woman has evolved to survive in an ecosystem that pretends to resist her. If women start to resist an aesthetic, like the overapplication of Photoshop, the aesthetic just changes to suit us; the power of the ideal image never actually wanes.

millions of women had escaped servitude by claiming positions of authority – Maggie Thatcher being the prime example – they had only managed to do so by becoming honorary males. And only if they first found some other, usually browner, woman to take their place on the domestic front as a marginalized proletarian.

Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics,

For Hegel, the true nature of reality was consciousness – mind, not matter – and the history (and destiny) of the world was a history of humanity coming to realise this.

For us, a man is a hero and deserves special interest only if his nature and his education have rendered him able to let his individuality be almost perfectly absorbed in its hierarchic function without at the same time forfeiting the vigorous, fresh, admirable impetus which make for the savor and worth of the individual.

I believe that future critics of our current political order will identify, as political fictions, what might be called the liberalism triad: freedom of speech, egalitarianism, and the fight for social justice.

“Unbelievable. Are you seriously going to let her speak to a High-Born Fae like that?” she said, eyes on Fisher. “What do you want me to do about it?” he replied. “She has a mind and a mouth of her own. I am the keeper of neither.”