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The West is bored to death
newstatesman.com
Peter Wessel Zapffe wrote – in his doctoral thesis with the classic name On the Tragic – on the importance of not taking short cuts, but instead using one’s time to struggle towards a goal. Receiving too much technical help
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
“More and more young, intellectually inclined, and politically heterodox thinkers are showing disillusionment with the contemporary faith in technocracy and personal autonomy. They see this combination as having contributed to the fundamentally alienating character of modern Western life. The chipper, distinctly liberal optimism of rationalist... See more
Zach Lamb • The Noetic Future of Culture and Brands
To admire a misanthrope.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.