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They live in a society that glorifies youth and fears it at the same time, no doubt about it.

Alain Badiou • The True Life

he can genuinely be known: that is, reasoned toward, intimately encountered, directly experienced with a fullness surpassing mere conceptual comprehension.

David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God

The first is the never-ending defense of capitalism and its empty “freedoms,” undermined as they are by the sterile neutrality of market determination alone.

Alain Badiou • The True Life

In effect I think that liberals and libertarians converge around the idea that love is a futile risk.

Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love

In Chalmers’s vision, we would, as Arendt feared, be trapped in a situation wherein we would encounter nothing but ourselves and those things some of us have made. And it would be altogether likely that we would do so while swaths of our common world increasingly became inhospitable to human life. If so, the burden will fall, as it always does, on ... See more

theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality

The human being changed from a living embodied soul into its profane envelope, a mere receptacle of spirit, culminating in the Cartesian mote of consciousness observing the world but not participating in it, and the Newtonian watchmaker-God doing the same.

Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

The impossibility of arriving at ultimate formulations of reality does not represent a defeat for the inquiring mind. So long as we claim no authority beyond our own experience, what we speak has the ring of truth.

Joanna Macy • World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times

“icy water of egotistical calculation.”

Alain Badiou • The True Life

The result is a historic crisis of symbolization, in which young people today are suffering their disorientation.